23 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS FEBRUARY 2017 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Peruvian Congress of Digestive Diseases 2016 Dra. Rosario Mayorga Márquez Peruvian Society of Gastroenterology Local Organizing Committee The Peruvian Society of Gastroenterol-ogy held its 25th Congress of Digestive Diseases from 5 to 8 October 2016. This biannual meeting took place in Lima, Peru, with the participation of nearly 900 attendees, including not only gastroenterologists, but also sur-geons, general practitioners and other healthcare professionals with scientific interest in gastrointestinal diseases. There were three postgraduate courses that preceded the Congress, each one of them covering hot topics by remarkable invited speakers from all around the world. The first day the International Course of Liver Diseases took place, where topics in viral hepatitis, compli-cations of cirrhosis and liver transplan-tation were developed by distinguished local and international professors, who performed great conferences in a room full of attendees. The foreign speakers included the professors Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva (Brazil), Paolo Angeli (Italy), Ezequiel Ridruejo (Ar-gentina), Rolando Ortega (Colombia) and Diana Krasniansky (Argentina). Simultaneously, the International Course of Intestinal Diseases “Dr. Julio César Serván Perea” was held on day one, with an interesting program that included topics in capsule endoscopy, enteropathies and gut microbiota, and with the participation of international speakers: Clara Luz Martinez (Mexico), Maria Teresa Galiano (Colombia), Dan Waitzberg (Brazil), Jesús Yamamoto (Mexico), Fabian Juliao (Colombia), Fermin Mearin (Spain). On the second day, the Internation-al Course of Diagnostic and Thera-peutic Endoscopy “Dr. Luis Malca Villanueva” reviewed some innovative topics in esophageal, colonic and biliopancreatic diseases and therapeu-tic interventions. The world renowned speakers that participated in this course were John Ospina (Colombia), Nelson Miyajima (Brazil), Jonathan Leighton (USA), Francisco Ramirez (USA), Douglas Faigel (USA), Herbert Burgos (Costa Rica), Miguel Angel Valdovinos (Mexico) and Raj J. Shah (USA). Most of these last pro-fessors also participated in the Con-gress of Digestive Diseases over the next two days, and in the one-day live endoscopy demonstration of the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic techniques that took place in Reba-gliati National Hospital in Lima. The main topics of the meeting involved management of biliary complicated Attendees at the 25th Congress of Digestive Diseases diseases, endoscopic submucosal dis-section, gastrointestinal bleeding and gastro esophageal reflux disease. It is also important to mention that 15 satellite symposia were performed within this meeting. There was also a competition for the best research paper in gastrointestinal/liver diseases and therapeutics, and we were pleased to have a great participation of gastro-enterologists and residents from our country. The prize of this competi-tion has the name “Raul Leon Barua” on behalf of one of the most notable gastroenterologists of Peru. Finally, I would like to thank and highlight the important contribu-tion of all of our foreign teachers who helped to make this a remark-able meeting, and hope that we made them feel at home after their arrival and willing to come back! Rosario Mayorga, Veronica Paz, Jorge Ferran-diz, Cecilia Cabrera, Javier Diaz and Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva
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