Michael El Boghdady, MBChB, MD, MCh, MHPE, PGDip, PGCAPHE, MFSTEd, FHEA, St George's University Hospitals, UK
Dr El Boghdady is a specialist registrar in general surgery in London. He was elected as the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) officer and subsequently the Director of Education for the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT), one of the biggest surgical associations in the UK representing almost 3000 surgical trainees from all ten specialties. He is the trainee representative at the Royal College of Surgeons EDI steering group. He is also passionate about surgical education, and obtained his MD degree in surgeon's errors and laparoscopic training from the University of Dundee, Scotland. He also obtained a Master’s degree in general surgery from the University of Edinburgh, a Master’s in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University, and a further one in higher education. He is a member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Fellow of the higher education academy.
Dr El Boghdady has worked on many projects to improve the training environment and eliminate bullying, discrimination, and harassment in surgical training, as well as to provide support strategies for trainees who experienced poor behaviors. He created the ASiT anti-bullying, discrimination, and harassment guidance, and has special interests in surgical training, trainees’ wellbeing, anti-bullying, equality, and diversity in surgery.
Gaetano Gallo, MD, PhD, FASCRS, FEBS, La Sapienza University of Roma, Italy
Dr Gallo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at La Sapienza University of Roma, Italy. He has a clinical and academic interest in proctology (hemorrhoidal disease, perianal and rectovaginal fistulas, rectal prolapse), functional and pelvic floor disorders, IBD, and microbiome and colorectal cancer. He has written more than 300 articles, including several national and international guidelines on colorectal diseases (hemorrhoidal disease, rectal prolapse, and appendicitis).
He is a member of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Guidelines and Cohort Studies Committees. Dr Gallo is member of several Editorial Boards, including BMC Surgery.
