Frederic Prat is a teaching professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at Paris University and chief of the endoscopy unit at Beaujon hospital, Assistance Publique-Paris hospitals. His translational research focuses on minimally invasive therapeutic applications of high intensity ultrasound and other physical agents to biliopancreatic cancer. Clinical interest and publications cover a wide range of interventional and diagnostic endoscopy topics, from GERD and Barrett’s esophagus to cholelithiasis and pancreatic diseases, with a particular focus on ERCP, EUS and mucosal resection techniques, including innovative endoscopic devices.