2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS AUGUST 2015 Contents Editorial Message from the Editors of e-WGN 1 J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG More Women Leaders: Patching the Leaky Pipeline 3 Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO Gastro 2015: Unmissable 5 WDHD News World Digestive Health Day 2015 Heartburn: A Global Perspective 7 World Digestive Health Day in Brazil 7 Joaquim Prado Pinto de Moraes-Filho, MD, FACP, FACG Heartburn on the Rise in Pakistan 8 Zaigham Abbas, MBBS, FCPS, FRCP, FRCPI, FACP, FACG, AGAF WDHD in Somalia 9 Prof. Dr. Osman M. Dufle, MD World Digestive Health Day 2015 - United Arab Emirates 10 Ali Al Fazari, MBBS, FRCPC, FACP WGO & WGOF News Teaching Visit to Myanmar March 2015 12 Di Jones, OAM RN, ACGEN, FACN WGO-Xijing Training Center for Gastroenterology Inauguration 14 Kaichun Wu, MD VIII International Course of Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy 16 Roque Sáenz, MD, FACG Dr. Amy Oxentenko on WGO Train-the-Trainers Taiwan 2015: Three Things to Share 18 Amy S. Oxentenko, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF WGO Train the Trainers Workshop: Taipei, Taiwan 20 Han-Mo Chiu, MD, PhD Train the Trainers Workshop: Antalya, Turkey 2016 Application Process Now Open 22 The Hong Kong Society of Gastroenterology Health Exhibition and Annual Meeting 24 Wai-Cheung Lao, FHKCP, FHKAM (Medicine), FRCP (Edin,Glasg) Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy 31st Annual Conference 25 Aamir Ghafoor Khan, MD Bakht Biland, MD Iraqi Gastroenterology and Hepatology Conference 2015 27 ISGH Scientific Committee Spanish Society of Digestive Diseases (SEPD) 28 Federico Argüelles Arias, MD WGO Global Guidelines WGO Global Guidelines & Cascades at Gastro 2015 31 Greger Lindberg, MD Anton LeMair, MD Calendar of Events WGO Calendar of Events 33 VOL. 20, ISSUE 2 Editors: J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, Christina Surawicz Managing editors: Marissa Lopez and Elisabeth Vink Art Production: Jennifer Gubbin Editorial Office: WGO Executive Secretariat, 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA Email: info@worldgastroenterology.org e-WGN Editorial Board • Anita Afzali, USA • Minhu Chen, China • Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Abdel Meguid Kassem, Egypt • René Lambert, France • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Christoffel Johannes van Rensburg, South Africa • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal • Michael Schultz, New Zealand • Ala Sharara, Lebanon • Catherine Wendy Spearman, South Africa • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Miguel A. Valdovinos, Mexico • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Marcelo F. Vela, USA ©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.
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