33 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 Summary of Annual Meeting SGG – SGVC – SASL 2015 Andrew Macpherson, MD, PhD Chairman, Scientific Committee of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology Professor of Medicine and Director of Gastroenterology University Hospital of Bern Bern, Switzerland The annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology (SGG), the Swiss Society of Visceral Surgery (SGVC), the Swiss Association for the Study of the Liver (SASL) and the Swiss Society of Endoscopy Nurses and Associates (SSNA) took place in Interlaken on 1-2 October 2015. This is a beautiful setting in the heart of Switzerland; excellent weather added to the excellent clinical presentations, The congress center Kursaal Interlaken. At the registration in the early morning. translational science, and the fellow-ship of attendees. This was an important meeting for the small, but energetic, Swiss gastro-enterology (GI) community, includ-ing the GI nurses, and our industrial partners. Since most people know each other, there is a real sense of collegiality. Of 74 abstracts of original research submitted to the scientific committee, mainly from our younger colleagues, approximately a third were incorporated into the program as oral presentations and the remainder were shown as posters. We also welcomed guest speakers from Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, France, and Spain. The full program is avail-able at https://sgg-sgvc-sasl.unibas.ch/ program-en.php. The conference started with a ses-sion on inflammatory bowel disease, including an outstanding presentation from Markus Neurath (Erlangen, Germany) on visualization of the underlying molecular mechanisms of the disease using cutting edge confocal endoscopy techniques. There were sessions on screening for GI tumors, with a focus on the particu-lar challenges in Swiss health care, and on functional intestinal disease that included excellent presentations from Robin Spiller (Nottingham, UK) on new insights into colonic function and diet in irritable bowel syndrome, and from Michael Fried (Zürich, Switzerland) on the relation-ships between gastric motility and functional dyspepsia. Arthur Kaser (Cambridge, UK) showed his group’s recent work on the interactions be-tween the unfolded protein response and autophagy in triggering chronic intestinal inflammation. Presentations on the surgical challenges of bariatric surgery interfaced with the endoscop-ic approaches to complications and new approaches. For liver diseases, the first day was focused on portal hypertension. Here, Jaime Bosch (Barcelona, Spain)
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