Jan-Werner Poley (1968) studied medicine at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the
Netherlands, and graduated with honours from medical school at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1997). He completed his residency in internal medicine at the
Sint Lucas Andreas hospital in Amsterdam, followed by a fellowship in Gastroenterology &
Hepatology at the Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since
2002 he is a staff gastroenterologist in this hospital. His main areas of interest are endoscopic
ultrasonography, interventional endoscopy, pancreaticobiliary diseases and gastrointestinal
hereditary tumors.
In a multidisciplinary setting with close collaboration with the departments of surgery and
radiology patients with benign, premalignant and malignant pancreatic disorders are treated.
Furthermore he is closely involved, together with the departments of clinical genetics and
pathology, on the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of patients with hereditary tumors of
the GI tract.
His research focuses on both hereditary tumors, with special interest in screening patients at
high risk for developing pancreatic cancer, and pancreaticobiliary disorders. Research is done
in the field of new techniques and applications of both endoscopic ultrasonography and ERCP.
He is a member of the working committee on hereditary tumors of the regional oncology
center and a member of the working committee on Lynch syndrome and FAP of the Dutch
registry on hereditary tumors. He is also a member of the Dutch Gastroenterology
Association, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and its special interest group
on Endoscopic Ultrasonography, and the European Association of Endoscopic
Ultrasonography.