29 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 Japan: Meeting Report on The 5th International Forum I was honored to host the 102nd Gen-eral Meeting of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE), which was held from April 21 to 23, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. More than 6,500 gas-troenterologists, the highest number in the history of the general meetings of JSGE, attended the congress. The general meetings of JSGE liter-ally have a 102-year history and is the most authoritative annual congress for Japanese gastroenterologists. The main theme of the congress was set to “A New Horizon in Gastroenterology led by Clinical Science”, which represent-ed our resolution that basic research conducted by clinicians is most im-portant to further improve gastroen-terology that has been achieved in the last 100 years and to conquer intrac-table diseases in the coming 100 years. The congress featured 10 symposia 10 panel discussions, 10 workshops, 74 oral presentation sessions, and 300 poster presentations to cover various fields of gastroenterology including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), liver diseases, endoscopy, pancreatic diseases, biliary diseases, and cancers. We reviewed the current status of clinical and basic research in those fields and discussed future directions of gastroenterology. We also held the 5th International Forum as a part of the 102nd General Meeting of JSGE. The purpose of this international forum is to provide an opportunity for young researchers in the field of gastroenterology to learn and discuss the latest basic science and clinical research conducted by outstanding international and domes-tic researchers. This was a two-day forum held on April 21 and 22. The theme of the first day was “A New Era in Basic and Clinical Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease“. We invited world-renowned speakers in those fields from overseas for the first day sessions: • Prof. Stefan Schreiber from University Hospital Schleswig- Holstein, Kiel, Germany; • Prof. Averil Ma from University of California, San Francisco, USA; • Prof. Julian Panes from Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain; • Prof. Remo Panaccione from Uni-versity of Calgary, Canada; • Prof. Stephan B. Hanauer from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA; • Prof. Dong Soo Han from Han-yang University Guri Hospital, Seoul, Korea; • Prof. Siew C. Ng from the Chi-nese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and • Prof. Daniel K. Podolsky from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA For the second day sessions, the theme was “Precancerous Lesions and Con-ditions of the Gastrointestinal Tract“. World-renowned speakers included: • Prof. Ernst Johan Kuipers from Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Nether-lands; • Prof. Shuji Ogino from Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; • Prof. Ceu Figueiredo from the University of Porto, Portugal; • Prof. Mario Dinis-Ribeiro from Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Portugal; Mamoru Watanabe, MD, PhD Vice President (Research and Industry-University Alliance) Professor and Chairman, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Director, Advanced Clinical Center for IBD Tokyo Medical and Dental University Tokyo, Japan 5th International Forum
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