31 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 Recap of the 15th Congress of Gastroenterology China and Chinese Congress of Digestive Diseases 2015 (DDW) 2015 and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week were reported by international experts. Nearly 200 domestic senior experts and 18 international experts were spe-cially invited. The Congress provided a unique opportunity to gain access to the latest and best scientific informa-tion and education in gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy. CCDD 2015 The Chairmen of CCDD 2015 were Professors Yun-Sheng Yang, Zha-oshen Li, and Lai Wei. They gave the plenary speeches on the development and current challenges in digestive en-doscopy, and the focus of big data in the research of hepatology, respective-ly. In the opening ceremony, Professor Daiming Fan, as the honorary chair-man of the Congress, gave the speech of “Medicine and Science.” Professor John Allen, the former president of American Gastroenterological Asso-ciation, launched the lecture of “Sci-entific Drivers for Diplomacy.” The President of World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO), Professor James Toouli, introduced the struc-ture of WGO and its global strat-egy. The chairman of Asian Pacific Digestive Week Federation, Professor Kwong-Ming Fock from Singapore, analyzed Asian Pacific GERD III. The chairman of the Asian Pacific Associa-tion of Gastroenterology, Professor Kentaro Sugano from Japan, intro-duced a new acid suppressive therapy, In CCDD 2015, Chairmen of the Congress, Professor Yang Yunsheng was giving the plenary speech. sented as posters and 143 as free paper presentations. The best abstracts were published in supplements of Chinese Journal of Digestion and Journal of Digestive Diseases. Fifteen plenary lectures, eight CME reports, and six essence reports were given. Apart from plenary lectures, there were five breakout sessions in the CCDD and 19 sessions in the CGC, including the “GI nursing care session” and “com-petition of youth endoscopy video,” which were established in the Congress for the first time. The session of “Youth oral presentation in English” was setup by the Youth Committee of the CSG. In the “international session,” essence studies from Digestive Disease Week The 15th Congress of Gastroenterol-ogy China (CGC 2015) and Chinese Congress of Digestive Diseases 2015 (CCDD 2015) were held successfully on 4-6 September 2015 in Tianjin, China. The congress was jointly spon-sored by Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Society of Gastroenterology (CSG), Chinese Society of Digestive Endoscopy (CSDE), and Chinese So-ciety of Hepatology. This magnificent gathering is believed to be the broadest scientific event in scale, with the high-est academic level in Chinese gastroen-terology, with 5,805 delegates from all parts of the country participating. A total of 3,035 abstracts were submitted, 478 of which were pre- Professor James Toouli presenting WGO activities in CGC and CCDD 2015. Yulan Liu General Secretariat, Chinese Society of Gastroenterology Beijing, China
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