23 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology’s Annual Meeting The Portuguese Society for Gastro-enterology held its annual meeting in June 2016. The meeting took place in Algarve Convention Center near Al-bufeira. It was attended by almost 600 delegates from all regions of Portugal but also by doctors from Portuguese-speaking countries. A post graduate course preceded the meeting. This course discussed innovations that developed recently in several areas of gastroenterology. Several topics related to inflamma-tory bowel diseases were approached, namely biomarkers or the new drugs recently developed. The best way to monitor drugs with anti TNF capa-bilities was evaluated. A discussion about Hepatitis C was also included. The experts discussed the role of ribavirin in this setting. They also evaluated the need for surveillance after viral eradication and the destiny of patients that failed a course of treat-ment with the new drugs. We progressed to questions in gastrointestinal motility. Chicago v3.0 was introduced. A discussion about the relationship of gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome was also con-ducted. Novel concepts of intestinal microbiome were introduced. What is new in Rome 4 ended this chapter. The last session in the post graduate course was prepared by our colleagues from surgical departments. They showed what actually is interesting for gastroenterologists, namely the possi-bility of performing a thoracic-laparo-scopic esophagectomy. Discussion on the best approach for obesity (bypass, sleeve or switch) was evaluated. The approach to high risk patients with acute cholecystectomy and robotic digestive surgery ended the first day of our meeting. The first day of our meeting is traditionally a plenary session. We discussed the very important ques-tion of quality in endoscopy and also the sustainability of the Portuguese National Health Service. We also asked our fellow gastroenterologists who published abroad to present eight selected papers that were accepted in renowned peer-reviewed publications. On Thursday afternoon through the next two days we separated into groups focusing on gastrointestinal tract, endoscopy and liver. Three different rooms concentrated on each of these subjects. We also had oral communications, hands-on sessions in endoscopy, and ultrasound. Last but not the least we had the presence of several foreign doctors, ex-perts in different fields, who brought the most important theoretical and Luís Tomé, MD President of the Semana Digestiva de 2016 Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology (SPG) Lisbon, Portugal Professor Luís Tomé opening the post gradu-ate course Event participants, including Professor Guilherme Macedo, Vice-President of SPG and treasurer of WGO
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