Adjunct Senior Professor of Surgery
Health Sciences Postgraduate Program
Colorectal Surgery Unit
Cajuru University Hospital of the Catholic University of Paraná
Curitiba, BrazilPaulo Gustavo Kotze is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Head of the Colorectal Surgery Unit at Cajuru University Hospital of the Catholic University in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. He received his medical degree at the Federal University of Paraná and completed his General Surgery training at the Evangelical University Hospital in Curitiba. He also completed his senior Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the Clinics Hospital from the Federal University of Parana. Dr. Kotze achieved his Masters Degrees in Surgery at the Catholic University in 2008 and joined the faculty of medicine at the same university in 2011, as assistant professor of surgery. He achieved his PhD degree studying the influence of biological therapy on surgical outcomes in Crohn´s disease, in the University of Campinas, in São Paulo, Brazil (UNICAMP) in 2015. Dr. Kotze was also an IBD advanced visiting fellow in the IBD unit at the University of Calgary (Cumming school of medicine), Canada, for the period of 2017-2018.

Dr. Kotze is an experienced IBD surgeon and author of 2 books, various articles and book chapters focused on Crohn´s disease and ulcerative colitis. He has special interest in the fields of biological therapy and surgery in IBD. He actively participates on the directory board of the Brazilian Study group for IBD (GEDIIB) and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Coloproctology (periodical of the Brazilian society of colorectal surgeons) and participates as an international editorial board member of Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, Colorectal Disease and Intestinal Research, as well as a reviewer for several international journals such as Gut, APT, Therapeutic advances in Gastroenterology, among others. Dr. Kotze was formely a committee member of S-ECCO (surgeons of ECCO) from 2015-2018, and is currently a member of the ECCO EDUCOM (educational committee), 2018-2021.