Sven Almer is a senior consultant Gastroenterologist at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and senior Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Prof Almer graduated as MD at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and undertook training in Internal medicine and Gastroenterology at Linköping University Hospital where he obtained his PhD in 1995, entitled ‘Ulcerative colitis. Imaging of inflammation’. He spent his post-doc period 1996-1997 in Paris at INSERM and Hôpital Saint-Louis working together with Professors Robert Modigliani and Marc Lémann, and contributed to the European consortium on Genetics in IBD in collaboration with Professor Jean-Pierre Hugot. He introduced HRQOL measurements in IBD in Sweden in the early  1990’s and has contributed to several clinical and genetic studies of IBD, clinical pharmacology and liver diseases with more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. The current research focuses on treatment outcomes and underlying mechanisms in IBD. Prof Almer is since 2005 member of the Swedish Organisation for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, (SOIBD), the national research group for inflammatory bowel diseases. He has served as a board member of Swedish Society of Gastroenterology (SGF) 2017-2019, as chairman of the Therapy section at SOIBD, 2009-2015, of the Swedish Medical Products Agency National guidelines on ’Treatment of Crohn’s disease’, 2009-2012, been member of the Swedish Hepatology study group (SweHep), 1998-2015, and, of the steering group of the Swedish Inflammatory Bowel Disease Register (SWIBREG), 2003-2008.

Palle Bager, PhD, is working as Clinical Nurse Specialist at Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. He has been working in the field of gastroenterology for decades and has been involved in European IBD activities for years. This includes Committee member (and chair) of N-ECCO. He has conducted a body of research within IBD, especially in fatigue, anaemia, Health-Related Quality of Life, adherence and service development. Furthermore, he is an associate professor at Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Susanna Jäghult is the head of the Endoscopic Unit at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm. She has been working for many years with IBD both in the clinical and academic world. She has a PhD and her research is mainly concerning IBD and stress, fatigue, HRQOL. Susanna has been the chair of N-ECCO (Nurses of ECCO) and is now part of the E-learning Taskforce of ECCO. She is in the steering group for SWIBREG and is a member of SOIBD (The Swedish Organisation for the study of IBD). She was one of the founders of the Swedish Nurse Association (Föreningen för sjuksköterskor inom gastroenterologi i Sverige- FSGS) and was the chair for many years.