25 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JANUARY 2016 Gastro 2015: AGW-WGO | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Symposium: Update Management of GERD, Recent Guidelines in Indonesian Digestive Disease Week Ari Fahrial Syam, MD, PhD, FACP General Secretary, Indonesian Gastroenterology Association Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia Every year, the Indonesian Gastroen-terology Association in conjunction with the Division of Gastroenterol-ogy, the Department of Internal Medicine, and the Faculty of Medi-cine at the University of Indonesia holds a symposium, workshops, and a live demonstration in Jakarta. The title of this event is the Indonesian Digestive Disease Week (IDDW) and it takes place every May. In 2015 IDDW took place in conjunction with the 11th International Endoscopy Workshop from 28 to 30 May 2015. The website of this event is http:// iddw2015.com/. This scientific meet-ing is organized by the Indonesian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG), the Indonesian Society for Digestive Endoscopy (ISDE), and the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, and Faculty of Medicine at Universitas Indonesia in collaboration with Japan Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (JSGE), American College of Gastroenterol-ogy (ACG), and Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG) and will be endorsed by the World Gastroenterol-ogy Organisation (WGO). There was a plenary lecture, sym-posium, satellite symposium, meet-the- experts session, lunch sympo-sium, dinner symposium, free paper session, poster session, and exhibi-tion. The speakers of this event were a combination of locals and experts from abroad, including Professors Roy Soetikno, MD (USA), Mohan Ramchandani, MD (India), Kok-Ann Gwee, MD, PhD (Singapore), Ang Tiing Leong, MD (Singapore), Aamir Ghafoor Khan (Pakistan), Chin Kin Fah, MD (Malaysia), Kwong Ming Fock, MD (Singapore), Christopher Khor (Singapore), Fazal I. Khawaja, MD (Saudi Arabia), Raja Affendi, MD (Kuala Lumpur), Lawrence KY Ho, MD (Singapore), and Norfilza Binti Mokhtar, MD, PhD (Malaysia). A live demonstration was conduct-ed at the Center for Gastrointestinal tract endoscopy Cipto Mangunku-sumo. The gastrointestinal endoscopy center of Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital is one of the largest training programs in Indonesia. Training ac-tivities undertaken include endoscopy basic training and advanced training endoscopy. This training center is also a place of education for internal medicine residents and GI fellows. This center was one of the places for live demonstration during Asia Pacific Disease Week (APDW) 2014. At the 11th International Endoscopy Workshop, various cases of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy were per-formed to demonstrate the use of ERCP, EUS FNA, BLI, endoscopic mucosal resection, and esophageal stenting. This event was attended by 800 doctors from all over Indonesia, as well as by participants from abroad. IDDW 2015 coincided with the Indonesian Society of Gastroenterol-ogy’s 40th anniversary. One of the symposiums in these IDDW activities was associated with World Digestive Health Day on 29 May, with the 2015 theme focused on The opening of Indonesian Digestive Disease Week 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia. “Heartburn: a Global Perspective.” At
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