Josbert J. Keller

Josbert Keller completed medical school at the University of Amsterdam. Subsequently, he was a PhD fellow at the Department of Pathology at the AMC (University of Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Department of Gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, investigating molecular alterations in polyposis syndromes.

During his gastroenterology fellowship he became the principal investigator of the FECAL trial, comparing the efficacy of donor feces infusion with conventional antibiotic therapy for patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.In 2015 he was the co-founder of the Netherlands Donor Feces Bank at the Leiden University Medical Center. He is currently involved in research projects addressing stool banking and the effects of FMT for IBD and other disorders.Moreover, he was the project leader of a European standards and guidelines initiative (UEG) about stool banking for FMT. He is (co) author of > 75 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals.

Josbert was the secretary of the Netherlands Society of Gastroenterology between 2011 and 2016, and a representative of the National Societies Forum in the Meeting of Members of the UEG between 2017 and 2020. He is a member of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group (EHMSG).

Since 2009 he works as general gastroenterologist in The Hague, currently at the Haaglanden Medical Center.