24 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 XXIV Congress of the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver in Santiago, Chile 2016 Rodrigo Zapata, MD, FAASLD Professor of Medicine. Hepatology Unit. University of Chile School of Medicine and Universidad del Desar-rollo Secretary Executive of ALEH meeting Javier Brahm, MD University of Chile President of ALEH, 2014-2016 Between September 28th and October 1st, 2016, the recent XXIV Congress of the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver (ALEH) was held in Santiago, Chile. The main theme of our XXIV congress was: “Hepatology: Advancing to new diagnostic and therapeutic strate-gies”. This meeting was extraordinary and gathered more than 650 hepa-tologists from all of Latin America and international hepatologists from other countries of Europe and North America. There were 166 abstracts presented during the meeting showing the best clinical and basic research studies from different countries. More than 60 plenary conferences related to different fields in hepatology (viral diseases, cancer, metabolic conditions, transplantation, immunosuppression, etc.) were presented by many experts. The ALEH was founded in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1968, and during these 48 years it has been growing, incorporating many specialists and countries of Latin America, with the mission of promoting and disseminat-ing the knowledge of hepatology. In this context, during the last few years, ALEH has established strong bonds with sister societies related to liver diseases like the European Associa-tion for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). A proof of this relationship was their active presence in our last ALEH congress in Santiago, as a collaborative effort of mutual understanding and growth. Furthermore, we also received the collaboration of other prestigious institutions, which maintain with us a permanent friendship through many years, like the Hospital Clinic of Bar-celona (Spain) and the Mayo Clinic Organizing committee: Drs. Fernando Gómez (Vice Secretary, ALEH Meeting), Rodrigo Zapata (Secretary executive, ALEH Meeting), Javier Brahm (President, ALEH 2014-2016), Juan Pablo Roblero (Secretary ALEH), Roberto Segovia (Secretary, ALEH) Drs. Javier Brahm (President, ALEH 2014- 2016), Ann Lok (President, AASLD) and Laurent Castera (President, EASL) Drs. Javier Brahm (President, ALEH 2014- 2016) and Fernando Contreras (President, ALEH 2016-2018)
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