Editorial WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS Official e-newsletter of the World Gastroenterology Organisation www.worldgastroenterology.org VOL. 20, ISSUE 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 Welcome to Australia for Gastro 2015! In this issue James Toouli, MD, MBBS, PhD, FRACS Emeritus Professor of Surgery President, World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Quality in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in 2015. Providing the Best Care for Welcome to Gastro 2015, to Brisbane, tion Centre. The convention center and Our Patients. and Australia. My colleagues and I are congress hotels are located on the banks Maria Claudia Stefanoli, MD excited about presenting this grand event of the beautiful Brisbane River in the in Australia. I hope to meet as many of cultural and entertainment precinct. you as possible so that I can share with Not only can I promise you a warm you my enthusiasm for this meeting and welcome and plenty of networking op- my country Australia. portunities with leaders in the field, the Gastro 2015: AGW-WGO Interna- congress will also provide five days of tional Congress combines the World academic and practical excellence, show- Gastroenterology Organisation Congress casing a wide selection of quality research with Australian Gastroenterology Week and clinical contributions. The World Gastroenterology Organisation (AGW), the annual scientific meeting The program begins on Monday, 28 Foundation; Some Reflections of the Gastroenterological Society of September with a Post Graduate Day - Eamonn MM Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP, FACG, Australia (GESA). This meeting marks with five streams of dedicated post gradu- FRCPI the beginning of the new paradigm for ate training, including liver, endoscopy, WGO, i.e. two-yearly World Congresses, IBD, WGO updates (with details about to be held in conjunction with WGO Global Guidelines and Cascades, Train member societies as co-hosts. the Trainers, and Training Centers), and I also welcome other related organiza- neurogastroenterology - and Lifelong tions in the field who will participate in Learning courses presented by AuSPEN this meeting, including: the Australasian and the European Society for Clinical Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutri- Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), all tion (AuSPEN), Australian Pancreatic of outstanding value. Club (APC), Society of International The second day commences with a Gastroenterological Nurses and Endos- plenary session hosted by myself and Pro- copy Associates (SIGNEA), and Gastro- fessor Don Cameron, President of GESA. enterological Nurses College of Australia It will include the Bushell Lecture by (GENCA). Professor Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao and the The meeting will be exceptional with WGO Distinguished Lecture by Austra- over 40 international experts comple- lia’s own Nobel laureate, Professor Barry menting local faculty, presenting a pro- Marshall. The lectures will be followed by gram with numerous concurrent sessions the “Presidents’ Picks” - cutting edge talks each day in warm springtime weather paired with the highest ranked submit- at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibi- ...continued on page 4. 2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2015 Contents Editorial WGO & WGOF News Welcome to Australia for Gastro 2015! 1 WGO GIHep Porto Training Center James Toouli, MD, MBBS, PhD, FRACS Inauguration 20 Guilherme Macedo MD, PhD, FASGE, AGAF, FACG, FAASLD Message from the Editors of e-WGN 5 J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD WGO Inaugurates New Training Centers in Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Addis Ababa and Lagos 22 Desmond Leddin, MD The World Gastroenterology Organisation Foundation; Some Reflections 6 Inaugural Ceremony of the WGO Lagos Eamonn MM Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP, FACG, FRCPI Training Center 23 Olufunmilayo Lesi, MD Expert Point of View 8 WGO Exhibits Around the Globe in 2015 25 Quality in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in 2015. Providing the Best Care for Our Patients 8 WGO Train the Trainers Workshop 2015 Maria Claudia Stefanoli, MD Taipei, Taiwan 26 Marco Arrese, MD WDHD News Rodrigo Zapata, MD World Digestive Health Day 2015 WGO Train the Trainers Workshop 2015 Heartburn: A Global Perspective 12 Taipei, Taiwan 28 Ari F. Syam, MD, PhD, FACP Hasan Maulahela, MD Chilean Society of Gastroenterology Celebrates World Digestive Health Day 12 Ana Maria Madrid, MD 5th Bosnian-Herzegovinian Congress of Edith Perez de Arce, MD Gastroenterology and Hepatology with International Participation 31 World Digestive Health Day 2015 Milenko Bevanda, MD, PhD in Odisha, India 14 Shivaram Prasad Singh, MBBS, MD, DM Portuguese Digestive Week 2015 33 José Cotter, MD, PhD Summary of our World Digestive Health Day Event “Heartburn: Impact on Health-Related International Gastroenterology Congress Report 34 Quality of Life” 16 Wilson Miriti Kiraitu, MD Brigita Smolovic, PhD 36th Advances in Gastroenterology Course in World Digestive Health Day Event in Santiago, Chile 35 Peshawar, Pakistan 18 Marco Arrese, MD Noor Muhammad, MBBS, FCPS DDF 2015 - Reflections on the UK’s Second World Digestive Health Day 2015 Federated Conference 36 Celebrated in Turkey 19 Cathryn Edwards, MA (Oxon), DPhil, FRCP Serhat Bor, MD Upskilling in Colonoscopy 38 Adam Boutall, MD 3 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2015 Contents WGO Global Guidelines The Latest News in WGO Global Guidelines and Cascades 41 Anton LeMair, MD Calendar of Events WGO Calendar of Events 43 VOL. 20, ISSUE 3 e-WGN Editorial Board Editors: J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, Christina Surawicz • Anita Afzali, USA • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal Managing editors: Marissa Lopez and Elisabeth Vink • Minhu Chen, China • Michael Schultz, New Zealand Art Production: Jennifer Gubbin • Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Ala Sharara, Lebanon Editorial Office:WGO Executive Secretariat, 555 East Wells • Abdel Meguid Kassem, Egypt • Catherine Wendy Spearman, South Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA • René Lambert, France Africa Email: [email protected] • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Miguel A. Valdovinos, Mexico • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Christoffel Johannes van Rensburg, • Marcelo F. Vela, USA South Africa ©2015 World Gastroenterology Organisation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the copyright owner. 4 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2015 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events ted abstracts chosen by the Scientific with our colleagues in the UAE and In this, my last president’s letter Program Committee on topics that hence our committees shall all meet in for e-WGN, I am pleased to say that I will be of interest to all registrants. Abu Dhabi in November 2016. This hand over to my successor an orga- There are three additional days of change I believe marks a maturity in nization which is confident, finan- updates on the latest information for our organization which moves confi- cially sound and with a large range of practicing clinicians and researchers dently into the future on the back of activities which are making an impact across the full spectrum of topics of a very successful global educational on our profession for the good of our interest to all members of the gastro- program as well as significant sup- colleagues and most importantly our enterology community. With a variety port from our sponsors and member patients. I am very proud and honored of options to choose from, there is societies. to have served as President of WGO. something for everyone, including With the support of our member I wish to take this opportunity to “Liver Global Cure of Hepatitis C: societies Gastro 2015 will mark the thank the executive, governing council Transmission Free by 2023?”; a basic launch of two important and exciting and the various representatives of our science workshop on “Inflammation changes; a new funding structure for member societies for the support and in GI and Liver Disease: Molecular our various educational programs, and wise counsel I have had in the past two mechanism of disease”; a large num- individual memberships in WGO. years. In addition, I acknowledge with ber of free papers; the “WGO: Special The new funding structure includes immense gratitude the professional Regional Expert Series”; and much the launch of annual scholarships for support and advice from our executive more! trainees to attend the WGO training director and her staff. The new paradigm for WGO con- centers. Individual memberships in I look forward to welcoming you gresses also marks a significant change WGO will value-add to the benefits to Brisbane for Gastro 2015: AGW- to the way that WGO committees members receive over and above their WGO International Congress and will work. Starting at Gastro 2015 benefits as a consequence to member- hope you will have a truly wonderful our various committees shall meet at ship in WGO of their gastroenterol- and academically fulfilling time. WGO meetings. Next year we meet ogy society. 5 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2015 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Message from the Editors of e-WGN J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD Director of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Department