Ewa Małecka-Wojciesko M.D., PhD Dept of Digestive Tract Diseases , Medical University of Łódź,  Poland Ewa Małecka-Wojciesko obtained a PhD from the Department of Digestive Tract Diseases and Metabolic Disorders Medical School in  Łódź, Poland in 1988 and wrote a habilitation thesis in 1997. Her research interests focus on pancreatic cancer, biomarkers, risk factors, early detection of pancreatogenic diabetes, endocrine pancreatic function impairment and metabolic alterations in chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Since 2001, she has been the Head of the Department of Digestive Tract Diseases, Medical University, Lodz, Poland, and in 2002 she was awarded a full professorship. She has authored numerous textbooks and textbook chapters and over 300 original papers. She was the President of European Pancreatic Club in 2007-2008. She is an editorial board member for "Gastroenterologia Praktyczna" and “Gastroenterologia Polska“ and vice editor for “Gastroenterology Review”. She is also a management committee member for COST Action BM1204: "An integrated European Platform for pancreas cancer research", as well as CA21116: Identification of biological markers for prevention and translational medicine in pancreatic cancer .She is the President of the Committee for the Polish Centers Accreditation for Gastroenterology Training. She contributes to the PANDoRa (Pancreatic Disease Research) and GRAP study groups.