21 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 • In October we will run the Stand Alone Meeting on Hepatitis C 2015 for 100 participants, where the unique experience with exclusive all-oral therapies will be discussed. • The Simulator Endoscopy Course is expected to begin in late Octo-ber. • In November, a course for family practitioners called “Meet-the- Expert Forum in Esophageal Diseases” will provide input and important insights in this area for the busy practitioner. • To end the year, in December the Pancreatobiliary Summit will gather 50 participants for live demonstrations and discussions. So, Porto GIHep Training Center will have, as a most important domain of activity, the integration of core broad gastroenterology knowledge, providing clinical and endoscopic expertise (for different grades and stages), fostering interpersonal skills, promoting professionalism and the development of non-technical skills, cornerstones for balanced growth and safer endeavors. We wish to welcome all those interested in mastering such different topics as IBD, hepatology, or digestive endoscopy. For sure, the trainee, the newborn specialist or the recertified expert will find the precise moment to get together with us and help the WGO GIHep Porto Training Center flourish. WGO President Professor Toouli, with Training Center Director Professor Guilherme Macedo, the President of Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and the Clinical Director of Hospital S.João at the Opening Ceremony. that this ceremony was held in this particular week, as in the following four days the Portuguese Digestive Disease Week was held in Porto at the Customs House Convention Center, a wonderful venue where Professor Toouli lectured on behalf of WGO in a much acclaimed session. An intensive program, designed in our center, has already been outlined for the next several months: • The first course was the Clini-cal Hepatology Preceptorship, a two day live course (7-8 July) on hepatology and related technical procedures, included 20 partici-pants (trainees and young gastro-enterologists). • Continuing will be the Visiting Professor Program, which began with Professor Shuji Shimizu (Japan) for the establishment of telemedicine networking with the Training Center. • In September we will hold the Hepatology Masterclass, a full day lively discussion of 12 clinical cases with thorough pathological discussion for 20 participants. addressing the strategies for all who work in the Center, how the team has been developing and expects to thrive. This session was followed by a second period, the formal opening of the Training Center, revealing the plaque at the main entrance of the Gastroen-terology and Hepatology Department. Finally, we went on a guided tour of an exhibition that the department has promoted and displayed within the hospital for the last six months, called “The Universe of Gastroenterol-ogy.” In the exhibition all the major achievements of modern endoscopy, hepatology, and digestive oncology are highlighted, not only for public awareness, but also for the profession-als working in the hospital to realize what the new horizons in these areas are. Special emphasis was of course made on the role of our department in bringing these realities and expecta-tions into our hospital and university. The launching of the center awak-ened the media curiosity as Professor Toouli made some comments and statements for two national TV chan-nels. Interest was increased by the fact
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