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3 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2016 Contents Reflecting on a Memorable UEG Week 2015 23 Summary of the 21st VNAGE Annual Meeting 25 Duc T. Quach, MD, PhD 15th Iranian International Congress of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (ICGH 2015) 27 Reza Malekzadeh, MD, AGAF Seyed Alireza Taghavi, MD Summary of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology 29 Michael Schultz, MD, PhD Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2015 31 Chun-Jen Liu, MD, PhD Emerging Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases in the Asia Pacific - Implications to Health Care in the Region 33 KL Goh, MBBS, FRCP (Glasgow, London), MD, FACG, FASGE VII Latvian Gastroenterology Congress with International Participation 35 Aleksejs Derovs, MD, PhD 8th Hepatology and Gastroenterology Post Graduate Course 37 Ibrahim Mostafa, MD, PhD, FACG, MWGO, FRCP (Glasg.) 39th National Congress of the SMMAD and 6th Postgraduate Course 39 Rhimou Alaoui, MD WGO Global Guidelines Here’s what’s happening in 2016… 40 Calendar of Events Calendar of Events 42 ©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.


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