EDUCATION AND TRAINING
5-6 June 2024 Advanced ESD Workshop: Hands-on Training with Live Porcine, Athens, Greece
25-27 April 2024 ESGE Days 2024, Berlin, Germany
13 January-13 March 2024 ESD and Magnifying Endoscopy Training Course, NTT Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
14-17 October 2023 Postgraduate Teaching Program and 31th UEG Week, Copenhagen, Denmark
28-29 September 2023 ESD Hands-on in vivo Training, Pentax Forward Academy, Strasbourg, France
1-2 June 2023 Advanced ESD Workshop: Hands-on Training with Live Porcine, Athens, Greece
12-13 June 2023 Hands-on workshop with Live Porcine Models – ESD with Hybrid Knife, Berlin, Germany
23-24 June 2023 Hands-on ex-vivo Training, Pentax Forward Academy, Hamburg, Germany
6-9 May 2023 Digestive Disease Week 2023, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20-22 April 2023 ESGE Days 2023, Dublin, Ireland
31 March 2023 RESECT+ Training Course, Hamburg, Germany
9 March 2023 Endoscopic Full-Thickness Resection with the Colonic and Diagnostic FTRDR Training Course, Hamburg, Germany
17-18 November 2022 EMR and ESD Workshop: Hands-on Training with Live Porcine, Rotterdam, Netherlands
14-30 October 2022 Advanced Interventional Endoscopy Internship, Endoscopy Unit, University Hospital, Augsburg, Germany
October 2022 Postgraduate Teaching Program and 30th UEG Week, Vienna, Austria
25-26 August 2022 ESD and Advanced Resection Techniques in the Gastrointestinal tract, Leuven, Belgium
16-17 June 2022 EMR and ESD Workshop: Hands-on Training with Live Porcine, Athens, Greece
21-24 May 2022 Digestive Disease Week 2022, San Diego, California, USA
28-30 April 2022 ESGE Days 2022, Prague, Czech Republic
13-14 December 2021 EMR and ESD Workshop: Hands-on Training with Live Porcine, Athens, Greece
24-25 August 2021 Hands-on Training in Advanced Colonic EMR, Leuven, Belgium
26-27 August 2021 ESD and Advanced Resection Techniques in the Gastrointestinal tract, Leuven, Belgium
November 2019 21th European Bridging Meeting in Gastroenterology, Warsaw, Poland
October 2019 Postgraduate Teaching Program and 27th UEG Week, Barcelona, Spain
September 01-16, 2019 Advanced GI Endoscopy Course, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
June 28, 2019 11th Endo-Skills Update, Early Gastrointestinal Cancer, Munich, Germany
May 2019 Digestive Diseases Week 2019, San Diego, California, USA
6-9 December 20181st European Congress of Young Gastroenterologists, Zagreb, Croatia.
October 2018 Postgraduate Course, 26th UEG Week, Vienna, Austria.
July 2018 4nd Athens International Symposium, Athens, Greece.
October 2017 Evidence Based Medicine Course, UEG Week 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
October 2017 25th UEG Week 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
October 2016 International Scholarship Award 2016, 24th UEG Week, Vienna, Austria.
June 2015 UEG (United European Gastroenterology) Summer School, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.
March 2011- April 2015 Fellowship in Gastroenterology, Department of Gastro-hepatology, University Hospital Center Mother Teresa, Tirana.
October 2014 Postgraduate Course, 22nd UEG Week, Vienna, Austria.
July 2014 2nd Athens International Symposium, Athens, Greece.
June 2014 UEG (United European Gastroenterology) Summer School, 2014, Prague, Czech Republic.
October 2000– July 2006 General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana.
WORK EXPERIENCE
November 2016 – Actually Gastroenterologist-Endoscopist, Gastroenterology Department, American Hospital Albania.
December 2015– November 2016 Internist-Gastroenterologist, Salus Hospital, Tirana.
May 2015 – November 2015 Gastroenterologist, Emergency and Internal Medicine Department, American Hospital Albania.
March 2011 – April 2015 Fellowship and Residency in Gastroenterology, Department of Gastro-Hepatology, University Hospital Center Mother Teresa, Tirana.
September 2008 – March 2011 General Practitioner, Thumane Health Center, Kruja.
March 2008 – April 2011 Volunteer (part–time), Gastro-Hepatology and Hematology Department, University Hospital Center Mother Teresa, Tirana.
September 2007 – October 2012 Part–time doctor, Emergency Department, American Hospital Albania.
August 2006 –October 2007 Emergency Department, University Hospital Center Mother Teresa, Tirana.
PUBLICATIONS
1. S. Taçi, A. Myrto, D. Vathi, A. Hysa, K. Shehu, A. Babameto. Tromboza e Venës Porta: Fiziopatologjia, Diagnoza dhe Trajtimi, Revista Shqiptare e Gastroenterologjisë dhe Hepatologjisë 2011; 6:107-114.
2. E. Sadiku, A.Hysa, S.Taçi, I. Tafaj, G. Caco, A. Babameto. Thrombosis in inferior vena cava due to bening external compression. Konferenca e 22 Kirurgjikale Shqiptare, Tetor- Nentor 2014, Tiranë. Libri i abstrakteve 2014: 110.
3. Marsela Sina, Altin Hysa, Arben Gjata, Bledar Kraja, Kevin K. Prifti, Gregory A. Coté. Inpatient management of gallstone disease in a country with limited ERCP availability: impact of choledocholithiasis on resource utilization. Gastroenterology, 2015,148, S-790.
4. Marsela Sina, Dorina Osmanaj, Ilir Akshija, Adea Kocollari, Altin Hysa, Fationa Kraja, Ilir Bibolli, Skerdi Prifti. Colorectal Cancer in Albanian Population: Role of Diet and Lifestyle. Albanian J Med Health Sci 2015 Vol. 46, ISSUE 3.
5. Marsela Sina, Dorina Osmanaj, Ilir Akshija, Denisa Horanlli, Adea Kocollari, Altin Hysa, Ilir Bibolli, Skerdi Prifti. Roli i dietës dhe stilit të jetesës në kancerin kolorektal. Revista Shqiptare e Gastroenterologjisë dhe Hepatologjisë 2016, Libri i Abstrakteve; 6-7.
6. Irgen Tafaj, Altin Hysa, Liri Cuko, Fatmir Bilaj, Teuta Dedej, Adriana Babameto. Ikteri, shenjë debutuese në leukozën akute limfoblastike: rast klinik. Revista Shqiptare e Gastroenterologjisë dhe Hepatologjisë 2016; 10: 70-74.
7. Marsela Sina, Ilir Akshija, Skerdi Prifti, Adea Kocollari, Dorina Osmanaj, Altin Hysa. Epidemiological Data on Colorectal Cancer in Albania. Albanian J Med Health Sci 2018 Vol. 49.
8. Altin Hysa, Irgen Tafaj, Fatmir Bilaj, Skerdi Prifti. An Unusual Etiology of Cholestatic Jaundice: Case Report. 1st European Conference of Young Gastroenterologists, December 2018,
9. Altin Hysa, Sabri Tmava, Arben Dhima, Ilir Bibolli, Marsela Sina, Skerdi Prifti. Roli i ERCP ne trajtimin e semundjeve te rrugeve biliare: eksperienca jone. Revista Shqiptare e Gastroenterologjisë dhe Hepatologjisë 2019; 13: 54-7
10. Altin Hysa, Marsela Sina, Skerdi Prifti. Clinical presentation and treatment of primary gallstone diseases in Albania: A cohort analysis; 21th European Bridging Meeting in Gastroenterology, Warsaw, Poland 2019.
11. Marsela Sina, Xhensila Pemaj, Ilir Akshija, Altin Hysa, Adea Kocollari, Skerdi Prifti. Does Vitamin D Level Correlate with Disease Activity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients? May 2021, Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis 15: S520-S520
12. Marsela Sina, Fatmir Bilaj, Xhensila Pemaj, Skerdi Prifti, Altin Hysa. Acute pancreatitis and intragastric balloon; April 2022, Endoscopy 2022; 54(S 01): S248 Abstracts | ESGE Days 2022.
13. Marsela Sina, Xhensila Pemaj, Ilir Akshija; Adea Kocollari, Altin Hysa, Dorina Osmanaj. Vitamin D Insufficiency Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients in Albania. World Congress of Gastroenterology, December 12-14 2022, Dubai, Emirates, Abstract Book: Op27.
14. Dorina Osmanaj, Marsela Sina, Ilir Akshija, Altin Hysa, Skerdi Prifti. The Utility of Lymphocyte to Monocyte Ratio and Neutrophyl te Lymphocyte Ratio in Predicting Colorectal Cancer Prognosis. World Congress of Gastroenterology, December 12-14 2022, Dubai, Emirates, Abstract Book: Op08.
15. Altin Hysa, Marsela Sina, Arben Dhima, Bledar Kola, Dorina Osmanaj, Skerdi Prifti. Intragastric Balloon Complications: A Case Series; April 2023, Endoscopy 2023; (S 01): S198, Abstracts, ESGE Days 2023.
16. Altin Hysa, Marsela Sina, Arben Dhima, Bledar Kola, Dorina Osmanaj, Skerdi Prifti. Colonic interposition graft and risk of adenomatous polyp. Do we need screening; April 2024, Endoscopy 2024; 56(S 02): S386-S387, Abstracts, ESGE Days 2024.
17. Altin Hysa, Marsela Sina, Xhensila Pemaj, Dorina Osmanaj, Bledar Kola, Arben Dhima, Skerdi Prifti. Unusual Presentation of Denture Ingestion Causing Sigmoid Perforation in a Patient with Prolonged Denture Loss: April 2024, Endoscopy 2024; 56(S 02): S443, Abstracts, ESGE Days 2024.
