Geerard Beets

Geerard Beets is currently the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and is Professor of Surgery at Maastricht University. Previously he worked as a surgeon at Maastricht University Medical Center, and spent a 1-year clinical research period at the colorectal service of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His clinical field of expertise is colorectal cancer, and the multidisciplinary research is focussed on rectal cancer with the main research areas of MR imaging of rectal cancer and organ sparing treatment of rectal cancer. Geerard Beets is a faculty member of national and international colorectal and oncological societies.