Hendrik Jaap Bonjer PhD, FRCSC, FACS, FASCRS

Dr. Jaap Bonjer (1960) is a Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre, the Netherlands. Surgical innovation, clinical research, and education are his main fields of interest. In 2000, Dr. Bonjer was awarded a Chair in Endoscopic Surgery at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He developed a multidisciplinary simulation facility, the Skills Lab Erasmus MC, in Rotterdam in 2004.

Dr. Bonjer was a Professor of Surgery at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 2004 until 2009 and served as Chair of the Dalhousie and Capital Health Department of Surgery from 2006 through 2009. He initiated the Nova Scotia Surgical Network and founded 2007 an inter-professional learning environment, the Skills Centre for Health Sciences, in Halifax.

Dr. Bonjer is the founder and CEO of the Amsterdam Skills Centre (ASC) for Health Sciences which will open in January 2019. The ASC will train more than 3,000 healthcare professionals per year. The ASC develops in collaboration with international partners a New Way of Learning; a scalable, digital and mobile learning environment enabling a shortened and sustainable curriculum for healthcare professionals worldwide. Dr. Bonjer completed a Health-MBA program at Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 2014. He is the Associate Editor of Surgical Endoscopy, President of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (2017 – 2019), and President-Elect of the Dutch Society of Surgery.

Dr. Bonjer is an initiator and principal investigator of the COLOR, COLOR II, and COLOR III trials in patients with colorectal cancer. Centers throughout Europe, North America, and Asia participate in these trials. Dr. Bonjer has published more than 240 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts (h-index 50) and edited five surgical textbooks.