25 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 9th Scientific Conference & Annual General Meeting Of SOGHIN The Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Nigeria held its 9th Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Lagos State from 18-22 July 2016. There was a large turnout in attendance by participants includ-ing gastroenterologists, surgeons, pathologists, general practitioners, resident doctors and nurses. Resource persons came from within Nigeria and primarily from South Africa, Europe, North America and India among other countries. Attendees found the Scientific Conference to be robust in content. The Annual General Meeting that followed resulted in elections of new officers. The local organizing committee (LOC) under the Chairmanship of Dr. Mobolaji Oludara, a Consultant General Surgeon, also included Dr. Mrs. Funke Adeleye, Consultant Gas-troenterologist as Secretary. The other members were drawn mainly from the Lagos State University Teaching Hos-pital, Idi-Araba and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. The Conference theme was “Mod-ern Technology in Gastrointestinal Practice” and sub themes were: (i) Basic and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery. (ii) Recent Update in Management of Viral Hepatitis. (iii) Radiological Interventions in GI Practice. (iv) Advanced Gastrointestinal Endos-copy. (v) Molecular Diagnostics in GI Pathology The preconference workshops took place at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba (LA-SUTH) and the Lagos State Univer-sity Teaching Hospital, Ikeja (LUTH) while the main conference was held at the prestigious NECA House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. Also held at Alausa was the Annual Dinner at the magnificent Memorable Gardens. Hotel accom-modation for facilitators and guests was mainly at the Protea Select and De Renaissance hotels in Alausa. A press conference was organized on the first day of the preconference workshop and was attended by the SOGHIN President, supported by the LOC Chairman, Dr. Oludara and Dr. Funmi Lesi (Chairman Scien-tific Subcommittee), as well as Dr. Onyekwere (Chairman Fundraising Committee). Another press interview took place after the opening ceremony on Thursday, 21 July. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (Attendance was 170) The preconference workshop took place on 18-19 July 2016 at LUTH and LASUTH. Special skills enrich-ment programs were organized for the resident doctors in gastroenter-ology, surgery, and pathology. The gastroenterology nurses also had their special training session. The surgical preconference workshop was divided into a basic laparoscopic workshop in LUTH. This was anchored by Drs. Osinowo, Adisa, and Balogun at the LUTH surgical skills laboratory. The attendees had didactic lectures on ba-sic laparoscopic surgery which was fol-lowed by dry labs experience and wet labs experience using anaesthetized 40kg pigs. They were able to perform basic procedures of PEG transfer, hand eye coordination, intracorporeal and extracorporeal suturing and later laparoscopic cholecystectomies on the anaesthetized pigs. At LASUTH, laparoscopic surgery was performed by Dr. M. A. Oludara. Facilitators included the conference guest lecturer Professor Fiemu Nwariakwu and Dr. Talwar (from Manipal Hospital, In-dia). Laparoscopic cholecystectomies were performed. Mobolaji A Oludara, MBBS,FWACS,FICS Dip Lap Surg (Strasb) Chairman, Local Organizing Committee 2016 Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Nigeria (SOGHIN) Conference Lagos, Nigeria Preconference workshop Best of EASL postgraduate training
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