12 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2017 Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG at ACG 2017 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events UPCOMING WDHD EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS World Digestive Health Day – Czech Republic When: 27 April – 31 May 2017 Location: Prague Address: Polska 1664/15, 12000 Praha, Vinohrady Organizers: Czech Society of Gas-troenterology, Czech IBD Patients Association Phone: +420 604898604 E-mail: pfeiferova.martina@gmail. com Website: www.chron.cz World Digestive Health Day – Iran When: 22 – 29 May 2017 Location: Peyrovian Hall Address: Shariati Hospital, Kargar-e- Shomali Avenue, Tehran Organizer: Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Phone: + 98 21 8801 2089 Email: info@iagh.org Website: www.iagh.org Walkathon and Student Education – India When: 26 – 29 May 2017 Location: IMA Hall Address: 2nd Cross, CSI Layout, Tu-makuru- 572102 Organizers: Chaitanyaa Gastro In-testinal Care and Endoscopy Centre, Indian Medical Association – Tumak-uru Branch, 41ners club Tumkur 173, Tumkur Ladies Circle 115, Tumkur Round Table 173, Sarvdaya Education Society, Prajapragathi daily newspaper, Pragathi TV Phone: +91 9632222233 Email: docpbn@gmail.com Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day – Mongolia When: 29 – 30 May, 2017 Location: Mongolian National Uni-versity of Medical Sciences Address: Zorig Street, Ulaanbaatar 14210, Mongolia Organizer: Mongolian Gastroenterol-ogy Association, Hepato Gastroen-terology Club, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences Phone: +976 99747339 Email: hgc.mnums@gmail.com Website: www.facebook.com.HGC. mnums IBD Week – India When: 29 May – 2 June, 2017 Location: KMC Hospital at Manipal Address: Manipal, Karnataka, India Organizers: Department of Gastro-enterology and Hepatology, Kasturba Medical College at Manipal 2017 RISE Revolution Cycle – Canada When: 9 July 2017; 20 August 2017; 16-17 September 2017 Location: Penticton, BC; Drum-mondville, QC; Collingwood, ON Organizers: Canadian Digestive Health Foundation Phone: 414 254 6028 Email: kelsey@CDHF.ca Website: www.CDHF.ca/RISE PLAN YOUR OWN WDHD EVENT WGO and the WGO Foundation encourage all members to participate in World Digestive Health Day 2017 by arranging events in their regions to commemorate this day. We hope that this year’s campaign will help increase awareness of IBD and its prevalence around the globe. Have you started planning your event? While the official date of WDHD is 29th May, many events take place throughout 2017. Past events include public campaigns, courses and lectures on treatments of the current theme, walkathons, national meetings, press conferences, radio and television interviews, devel-oping a country’s own WDHD Day, publications, and much more! In the coming months, you will find available a variety of tools and resources, to benefit your physi-cians, pharmacists, allied healthcare professionals, patients and the general public, by visiting http://www.world-gastroenterology. org/wgo-foundation/ wdhd/wdhd-2017. You can find upcoming WDHD 2017 Events and Success Stories by visiting http://www.worldgastroen-terology. org/wgo-foundation/wdhd/ wdhd-2017/wdhd-2017-events-and-success- stories. For questions regarding WDHD, please email info@worldgastroenterol-ogy. org. Also, please visit http://www. worldgastroenterology.org/wgo-foun-dation/ wdhd/wdhd-2017/submit-wdhd- 2017-event to officially submit your event for inclusion on the WGO Meetings and Events calendar and to request a copy of the WDHD 2017 logo for use in promoting this year’s WDHD campaign: “Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – Navigating Evolving Therapies in an Evolving Disease.”
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