2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2016 Contents VOL. 21, ISSUE 1 Welcome to WDHD 2016: Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Associate Dean for Faculty Development University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, Washington, USA Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD Professor of Hepatology Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil e-WGN Editorial Board • Anita Afzali, USA • Min-Hu Chen, China • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal • Amy Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Waseem T.Y. Hamoudi, Jordan • Abdel Maguid Kassem, Egypt • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Adam Mahomed, South Africa • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Arnoldo Riquelme, Chile • Michael Schultz, New Zealand • Ala Sharara, Lebanon • C. Wendy Spearman, South Africa • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Christo Van Rensburg, South Africa • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Marcelo F. Vela, USA Managing Editors Marissa Lopez, WGO Senior Program Manager Elisabeth Vink, WGO Program Manager Art Production Jennifer Gubbin Editorial Office WGO Executive Secretariat 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA info@worldgastroenterology.org ©2016 World Gastroenterology Organisation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Editors Your Diet and Gut Health 1 Govind K. Makharia, MD, DM, DNB, MNAMS David Sanders, MRCP(UK), MD, FACG, FRCP Editorial Goodbye and Hello 5 Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Bariatric Surgery and the Gastroenterologist 6 Srikantaiah Manjunatha, MBBS, MD, MRCP(UK) Michael Schultz, MD, PhD Neuroendocrine Neoplasm in China— Present and Future 9 Min-Hu Chen, MD, PhD Jie Chen, MD, PhD Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO International Congress 11 WDHD News 2016 Steering Committee 14 Upcoming WDHD Events and Celebrations 15 The WGO Handbook on Heartburn and the GERD Global Guideline are Now Available! 16 Celebration of World Digestive Health Day 2015, “Heartburn: A Global Perspective,” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 17 Maribel Lizarzábal, MD, PhD Guinwa Khaddaj, AF, MD Mildred Fuenmayor, MD WGO & WGOF News WGO Member Society Update 19 21st United Russian Gastroenterology Week 21 Vladimir Ivashkin, MD, PhD Arkady Sheptulin, MD, PhD
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