The Education Committee oversees all educational initiatives within the EPC, working to advance knowledge and professional development in the field of pancreatology.
Committee Leadership and Members
| Chair | Fabio Ausania (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) |
| Vice Chair | Egle Dieninyte (Vilnium, Lithuania) |
| Council Representatives | Daniel de la Iglesia Garcia (Vigo, Spain) |
| Anna Caterina Milanetto (Padua, Italy) | |
| Members | Alexander Arlt (Hamburg, Germany) |
| Tim Christopher Bauer (Heidelberg, Germany) | |
| Stefania Bunduc (Bucharest, Romania) | |
| Fabio Casciani (Verona, Italy) | |
| James Gauci (Valleta, Malta) | |
| Carolina González (Barcelona, Spain) | |
| Lucia Guilabert (Alicante, Spain) | |
| Tamara Madácsy (Szeged, Hungary) | |
| Matteo Tacelli (Milan, Italy) | |
| Antonios Vezakis (Athens, Greece) |
Contents |
Responsibilities
Objectives
The EPC Education Committee supports the EPC's mission by developing, curating, and implementing high-quality educational activities including (but not limited to):
- Designing and delivering educational content
- Developing and implementing educational initiatives (e.g. webinars, online resources, and educational materials)
- Supporting training and career development for trainees and early-career professionals
- Coordination with other EPC committees to ensure scientific accuracy, relevance, and consistency of messaging
- Providing a clear pathway for endorsement and dissemination of education-focused initiatives through EPC channels
Projects
2025 Highlights
- Strengthened EPC’s educational presence across key pancreas-focused meetings and collaborations
- Standardised endorsement workflows and improved transparency for external requests
- Continued development of Pancreas Academy as the central repository for structured, disease-oriented learning content
- Prepared a template webinar (pain in chronic pancreatitis) to standardise future educational delivery and content re-use
Country-specific webinars with national partner societies planned for 2026
A practical growth model in 2026 is to focus on one country at a time, in cooperation with a national partner society (e.g., AESPANC for Spain). The objective is to increase EPC’s tangible local value and grow dual memberships
- Format: two talks by national speakers in the local language plus one international speaker (with subtitles where feasible)
- Targeted invitation to the national society’s audience; open access for other EPC members
- EPC host/co-host ideally bilingual to facilitate inclusive discussion
- Clear member-value messaging and light call-to-action regarding EPC membership/dual membership benefits