WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS Official e-newsletter of the World Gastroenterology Organisation VOL. 19, ISSUE 3 OCTOBER 2014 In this issue www.worldgastroenterology.org 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 We are pleased to share this Fall 2014 issue with you. While all the articles are of great interest, we want to highlight a few. We have two excellent original ar-ticles: Michael Schultz and A. Grant Butt educate us on human stem-cell organoids as tools to study gut epithelial properties. They explain this exciting new advance and how this novel approach may inform the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease and cancer, among other diseases. Alejandro Piscoya provides an excellent background on the state of post-graduate education in gastroenterology, highlighting the WGO’s excellent work and suggesting additional opportunities and challenges for our worldwide com-munity. Directly relevant to Dr. Piscoya’s article are two articles about the Wolver-hampton training course for physicians from 10 WGO Training Centers brought to learn skills in endoscopic teaching methods. Damon Bizos provides a de-tailed summary of the teaching methods and Andrew Veitch’s article provides additional information on this successful course. It is exciting to see these advances in education. The article by Cihan Yurdaydin about the World Health Organization global partners meeting in Geneva last March details an outstanding program in Egypt for treatment of Hepatitis C. The information presented by Dr. Doss from the University of Health in Egypt outlines their goals to treat up to 300,000 individuals over the next 10 years with more than 90% government funding. They are already well under way, treating 45,000-50,000 chronic Hepatitis C cases annually. We congratulate them on these achievements and goals. As always, comments and feedback are welcome. Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG; Co-Editor J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD; Co-Editor Post Graduate Education in Gastroenterology Alejandro Piscoya, MD Mini Guts – Human Stem-Cell Derived Organoids as Tools to Study Epithelial Properties Michael Schultz, MD A. Grant Butt, MD British Society of Gastroenterology/Joint Advisory Group/World Gastroenterology Organisation International Training Colonoscopy Trainers (ITCT) Damon Bizos, MD Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, USA
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