Professor Benedict (Ben) Devereaux is the Immediate Past-President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland and a senior consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.He trained at the University of Queensland and Royal Brisbane Hospital before completing fellowships in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, USA.He has special interests in pancreatico-biliary endoscopy, pancreatic neoplasia, endoscopy training strategies and governance and infection prevention and control in endoscopy.