The Endo Club Nord was founded in 1991 as a practice-oriented forum for gastroenterological endoscopy by Nib Soehendra (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), Dietmar Wurbs (Asklepios Clinic Barmbek) and Friedrich Hagenmüller (Asklepios Clinic Altona), who were its presidents until 1998. Today the two-day forum for doctors, nursing staff and students is the world’s largest congress with live endoscopy with over 2,500 participants yearly. At the heart of the event, which takes place every year in November in the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), are – besides the fields of endoscopic diagnosis and therapy – a number of HDTV live broadcasts from the three participating hospitals, in which leading gastroenterologists from all over the world demonstrate both proven and innovative endoscopic procedures with the latest endoscopy and processor technology and discuss them in dialogue with the congress moderators.
The Endo Club Nord did not take place in the years 1993 and 1999.
Congress languages are English and German with simultaneous translations. In 2012 to 2014, there were additional simultaneous translations into Russian.
From 2000 to 2004, the Endo Club Nord was headed by its presidents Jürgen Gebhardt (Asklepios Clinic Barmbek), Friedrich Hagenmüller and Nib Soehendra. In 2005, Siegbert Faiss (Asklepios Klinik Barmbek) took over the presidency from Jürgen Gebhardt, in 2009 Thomas Rösch (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) replaced Nib Soehendra. In 2015, Friedrich Hagenmüller handed over his position as chief of the gastroenterology at the Asklepios Clinic Altona and subsequently also his presidency of the Endo Club Nord to Jürgen Pohl (Asklepios Clinic Altona).