Paulo Gustavo Kotze, MD, MSc, PhD.

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Paulo Gustavo Kotze is an 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 in 2002. Dr. Kotze achieved his Masters' Degree in Surgery at the Catholic University in 2008 and joined the faculty of medicine at the same university in 2011 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He achieved his PhD degree studying the influence of biological therapy on surgical outcomes in Crohn's disease at the University of Campinas, in São Paulo, Brazil (UNICAMP) in 2015. Dr. Kotze was also an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) advanced visiting fellow in the IBD unit at the University of Calgary, Canada (Cumming School of Medicine), for the period of 2017 to 2018. Currently, he serves as a Professor of the Postgraduate Health Sciences Program at the Catholic University of Paraná and Head of the Colorectal Surgery unit at the same university.