15 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Upcoming WDHD Events and Celebrations Diet and the Gut-Poland When: 16 April 2016 Location: West Pomeranian Univer-sity of Technology Szczecin Address: Aula im. prof. Skoc-zowskiego, Ul. 26 kwietnia, Szczecin, Poland Organizers: West Pomeranian Divi-sion of Polish Society of Gastroen-terology, Polish Society of People on Gluten Free Diet and Celiac Disease E-mail: marlicz@hotmail.com IBD Treatment Strategies-Jordan When: 17 May 2016 Location: Hotel (lectures) + outside activity (walk marathon) Address: Amman, Jordan Organizer: Jordanian Society of Gas-troenterology & Hepatology Phone: +962795723273 E-mail: waseem6520012001@yahoo. com Digestive Health Week-Iran When: 22-29 May 2016 Location: Convention Center Address: No 37, First Deadlock, Seventh St., Kargar-e-Shomali Ave, Tehran, Iran Organizer: Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Phone: +98 21 8833 5061-3 Fax: +98 21 8801 2089 E-mail: info@iagh.org Website: http://iagh.org Walkathon and Student Education- India When: 29 May 2016 Location: Tumakuru, Karnataka, India Address: Chaitanya, 2nd Cross, S.S.Puram post office road, S.S.Puram, India Organizers: Chaitanyaa Gastro Intestinal Care & Endoscopy centre in association of Tumkur Ladies circle 115, Tumkur Round table 173, 173 Incredible 40 and Indian medical as-sociation Tumkur Phone: +91 9632222233 E-mail: docpbn@gmail.com World Digestive Health Day 2016-Nepal When: 29 May 2016 Location: Conference hall of Depart-ment of Medicine Address: Universal College of Medical Sciences, Ranigaon, Bhairahawa,Nepal Organizer: Universal College of Medical Sciences Phone: +977 9747071031 E-mail: shatdalchaudhary@yahoo.com Discover the World Within - Understanding How The Human Gut Microbiota Impacts Lifelong Health-Canada When: 7 November 2016 Location: Design Exchange Address: 234 Bay Steet, Canada Organizer: Canadian Digestive Health Foundation Website: http://www.eventbrite. ca/e/discover-the-world-within-tick-ets- 21306936621 PLAN YOUR OWN WDHD EVENT WGO encourage all members to participate in World Digestive Health Day 2016 by arranging events in their regions to commemorate this day. We hope that this year’s campaign will help increase awareness on ways to promote gut health. Have you started planning your event? While the official date of WDHD is May 29, many events take place throughout 2016. Past events include public campaigns, courses and lectures on treatments of the cur-rent theme, marathons, walkathons, national meetings, press conferences, television and radio interviews, creat-ing a country’s own WDHD Day, publications, and much more. You may find a variety of tools and resources which benefit your physi-cians, other health care professionals, patients, and the general public, by visiting www.worldgastroenterol-ogy. org/wgo-foundation/wdhd/ wdhd-2016. For questions regarding WDHD, please email info@worldgas-troenterology. org. Please also visit the www.worldgas-troenterology. org/wgo-foundation/ wdhd/wdhd-2016/submit-wdhd- 2016-event to officially submit your event for inclusion on the calendar and to request a copy of the 2016 WDHD logo for your use in promot-ing this year’s WDHD campaign: “Diet and the Gut.”
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