Philippe Ruszniewski, MD, currently works in the Department of Gastroenterology-Pancreatology in Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France, having been head of the department from 1998 to July 2015. He was also responsible for the branch of Liver, Digestive, and Pancreatic Diseases located in Beaujon, in Bichat Hospital located in Paris, and in Louis-Mourier Hospital located in Colombes, France, from 2011 to 2015. He is Professor of Gastroenterology at Université de Paris, and currently Dean of Université de Paris Medicine School since July 2015. He is also a member of the basic science research group devoted to pancreatic diseases in Unit 1149 of the French Institute of Scientific Research.

His main areas of interest are digestive neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) and pancreatic diseases. He has been involved in NET research since the 1990s, and was a founding member of ENET, a European Society for Education and Research, in the NET field, which gave birth to the current European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS). His main topics of research are the early diagnosis of functioning and nonfunctioning NETs and the development of new therapeutic modalities for patients with NETs. He has been particularly involved in trials with somatostatin analogues, chemotherapy, targeted therapies, locoregional treatments such as (chemo) embolization and peptide-receptor radiolabeled therapy (PRRT). He has participated in the elaboration and implementation of Guidelines, Standard of Care Procedures published by ENETS. He is the leader of one of the six original ENETS Centres of Excellence, in Beaujon Hospital, created in 2008 and regularly successfully re-audited.

Professor Ruszniewski has published more than 470 papers in international journals and serves as a reviewer for leading journals in gastroenterology. He is past president of the French Society of Gastroenterology and a member of numerous societies in the field of gastroenterology, pancreatology, and digestive oncology. While he served as president of ENETS between 2010 and 2012, then as vice chairman, Professor Ruszniewski is currently a member of the ENETS advisory board.