Yama Issa is a surgical resident at Gelre Hospitals, the Netherlands. He studied medicine at Radboud University and finishama Issa is a surgical resident at Gelre Hospitals, the Netherlands. He studied medicine at Radboud University and finished his PhD in 2017 on chronic pancreatitis within the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group at Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands. Yama has coordinated the ESCAPE multicenter randomized trial and the CARE registry study in the field of chronic pancreatitis.