Paulo Gustavo Kotze is Adjunct Senior Professor of Surgery 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 in 1997 and completed his General Surgery training at the Evangelical University Hospital in Curitiba (2000). He also completed his senior Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the Clinics Hospital from the Federal University of Parana (2002). Dr. Kotze achieved his Masters' Degree on 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. Currently, he is Professor of the Postgraduate Health Sciences Program at the Catholic University of Paraná. Dr. Kotze is an experienced IBD surgeon and author of 2 books, 108 pubmed peer-reviewed articles and multiple book chapters focused on Crohn´s disease and ulcerative colitis. He has special interest in the fields of biological therapy, epidemiology 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, Intestinal Research, Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, as well as a reviewer for several international journals such as Gut, APT, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gastroenterology, British Journal of Surgery, 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.