2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JANUARY 2016 VOL. 20, ISSUE 4 Editors: J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, Spain, and Christina Surawicz, USA 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 • Min-Hu Chen, China • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal • Amy Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Waseem T.Y. Hamoudi, Jordan • Abdel Maguid Kassem, Egypt • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Adam Mahomed, South Africa • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Arnoldo Riquelme, Chile • Michael Schultz, New Zealand • Ala Sharara, Lebanon • C. Wendy Spearman, South Africa • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Christo Van Rensburg, South Africa • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Marcelo F. Vela, USA ©2016 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. Contents Gastro 2015: AGW-WGO A Celebration of Gastro 2015: AGW-WGO International Congress! 1 Don Cameron, MBBS, FRACP James Toouli, MD, MBBS, PhD, FRACS Finlay Macrae, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP (London), MWGO Geoffrey Metz, AM, MBBS, FRACP, MD, FRCP (London) Expert Point of View Gut Microbiota, Diet, and Antibiotics in IBD Pathogenesis; from a Developing Country Perspective 7 Tarkan Karakan, MD Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – A Growing Public Health Problem 10 Davor Stimac, MD, PhD Ivana Mikolasevic, MD, PhD Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO Abu Dhabi to Host Arab World’s Largest International Gastroenterology Meeting! Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO International Congress 13 WDHD News World Digestive Health Day 2015 Heartburn: A Global Perspective 16 World Digestive Health Day in Latvia 16 Ilona Vilkoite, MD World Digestive Health Day Activities in Thailand 17 Varocha Mahachai, MD, FRCPC, FACG, AGAF World Digestive Health Day in Vietnam 18 WGO & WGOF News WGO Announces the Launch of its Newly Redesigned Website 19 Project ECHO 20 WGO Exhibits Around the Globe in 2015 22 American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2016 International GI Training Grant Award 24 Symposium: Update Management of GERD, Recent Guidelines in Indonesian Digestive Disease Week 25 Ari Fahrial Syam, MD, PhD, FACP SAGES 2015 Congress Report 27 Vasudevan G. Naidoo, MD Annual Scientific Congress of the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 29 Recap of the 15th Congress of Gastroenterology China and Chinese Congress of Digestive Diseases 2015 31 Yulan Liu Summary of Annual Meeting SGG – SGVC – SASL 2015 33 Andrew Macpherson, MD, PhD
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