29 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 Annual Scientific Congress of the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology The Malaysian Society of Gastroen-terology and Hepatology (MSGH) held its annual scientific meeting 21 to 23 August 2015 at the Persada Convention Centre, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It was very well attended by delegates from around the country. Sixteen experts and speakers from around the world gathered here to share their knowledge and expertise. Our two distinguished speakers were Professor Kentaro Sugano from Japan and Professor Yogesh Chawla from Chandigarh, India. Professor Sugano is Chief Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Jichi Medical University and currently President of the Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology. World renowned for his work in gastric cancer, he delivered the MSGH oration entitled “Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer – A balanced view.” Professor Chawla is Professor and Head of the Department of Hepatol-ogy at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. An authority on portal hypertension, he delivered the Panir Chelvam Memo-rial Lecture on non-cirrhotic portal hypertension as well as a lecture on “The role of transient elastography in portal hypertension.” Professor Simon Travis is Group Head and Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England and President of the Europe-an Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation. And he is a leading expert in inflam-matory bowel disease (IBD) and spoke on “Mucosal healing as the new target in IBD management - how far and how deep should we go?” as well as speaking on “Modulating the Gut microbiota in IBD – does it work?” Professor K Rajender Reddy is the Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and shared his knowledge on “Manage-ment of Hepatitis C (HCV) related cirrhosis” and “American Gastroen-terological Association guidelines on treatment and prevention of Hepatitis B (HBV) reactivation during immu-nosuppressive therapy.” Dr. Teik-Choon See is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Cam-bridge University Hospitals (Adden-brooke’s Hospital) NHS Foundation Trust in the UK and chairs the East of England Interventional Radiology Group. A very active committee mem-ber at the Royal College of Radiology, Dr. See spoke on “The role of radiol-ogy in GI bleed” from the British perspective “Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) in portal hypertension.” Professor Francis Chan, Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, spoke on “Preventing peptic ulcer disease related bleeding” in the GI Bleed symposium. Professor Yeoh Khay Guan is Deputy Chief Executive (Academic Enterprise), National University Health System and Dean of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He was instrumental in the Colorectal Cancer Screening Program in Singapore and chairs the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Committee of the Health Promotion Board, Ministry of Health, which recommends guidelines for the national colorectal screening program in Singapore. He spoke on “Colorec-tal cancer screening – The challenges and pitfalls” in the colorectal sympo-sium. Professor Uday Ghoshal is Ad-ditional Professor in the Department Audience members listen to a presentation at GUT 2015. of Gastroenterology at the Sanjay
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