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2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2017 Contents VOL. 22, ISSUE 1 Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Associate Dean for Faculty Development University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, Washington, USA Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD Professor of Hepatology Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil e-WGN Editorial Board • Anita Afzali, USA • Min-Hu Chen, China • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal • Amy Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Waseem T.Y. Hamoudi, Jordan • Abdel Maguid Kassem, Egypt • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Adam Mahomed, South Africa • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Arnoldo Riquelme, Chile • Michael Schultz, New Zealand • Ala Sharara, Lebanon • C. Wendy Spearman, South Africa • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Christo Van Rensburg, South Africa • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Marcelo F. Vela, USA Managing Editor James Melberg, WGO Program Manager Art Production Jennifer Gubbin Editorial Office WGO Executive Secretariat 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA info@worldgastroenterology.org ©2017 World Gastroenterology Organisation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Editors https://www.facebook.com/WGOWGOF https://twitter.com/WorldGastroOrg www.worldgastroenterology.org Expert Point of View Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Refractory Constipation 1 Noemi Baffy, MD, MPH Lucinda A. Harris, MD Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein, DO Editorial Message from the Editors 7 Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD WCOG at ACG 2017 World Congress of Gastroenterology at ACG2017 8 WDHD News Join WGO in Raising Awareness for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in 2017 10 World Digestive Health Day in Montenegro: Your Diet in IBD and Liver Diseases 13 Brigita Smolovic, MD, PhD WGO & WGOF News Endo Live Roma 2017 15 Prof. Guido Costamagna “The Microbiota Hard Talks – Live From Texas Medical Center” Webinar Series 17 “Lobos” Intensive Hepatology Course for Young Physicians in Argentina 18 Federico Villamil, MD Reflecting on a Highly Successful UEG Week 2016 20 XV Brazilian Digestive Week 22 Maria do Carmo Friche Passos, MD, PhD XXIV Congress of the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver in Santiago, Chile 2016 24 Rodrigo Zapata, MD, FAASLD Javier Brahm, MD


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