27 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 Seoul International Digestive Disease Symposium 2016 Jong Sun Rew, MD, PhD Chonnam National University, Korea Congress Chairman, The Korean Society of Gastroenterology Organizing Committee of SIDDS 2016 Sang Woo Lee, MD, PhD Korea University, Korea President, The Korean Society of Gastroenterology Organizing Committee of SIDDS 2016 It is our great pleasure to tell you the news that the Seoul International Digestive Disease Symposium 2016 (SIDDS 2016) was successfully hosted by The Korean Society of Gastroenterology with participation of 912 healthcare professionals from 18 countries. The SIDDS symposium is biennial international conference covering hot topics on gastroenterol-ogy, and the SIDDS 2016 was held at Grand Hilton Seoul Hotel, Seoul, Korea from November 24th to 25th, 2016, in conjunction with the an-nual meeting of the Korean Society of Gastroenterology. Under the theme of “Emerging Themes and Perspectives in Gastro-enterology and Hepatology”, the SIDDS 2016 meeting was organized with a number of comprehensive programs, including clinical and scientific aspects of GI oncology, liver disease, functional bowel disorders, and pancreatobiliary diseases. There were 13 invited symposiums along with several state-of-the art lectures and special lectures. Over twenty distinguished foreign guest speakers presented exciting lectures in various topics, along with fifty, internation-ally well-known, domestic speakers. Opening remarks Guest speakers and chair persons from overseas included well-known distinguished speakers, such as Dr. John L. Wallace (University of Calgary, Canada), Dr. Christopher J. Gostout (Mayo Clinic, USA), Dr. Christophe Hézode (University Paris- Est, France) Dr. Phillip WY Chiu and Dr. Justin C.Y. Wu (The Chinese Uni-versity of Hong Kong), and also many other honorable celebrated scholars. The exciting topics of symposiums included Obesity: From Bench to Clinics; Changing Landscape of In-flammatory Bowel Disease; Emerging Issues in the Management of Ad-vanced Liver Disease; Emerging New Targets for Anti-Cancer Treatment of Gastrointestinal Cancer; Recent Updates of Gastric Carcinogenesis; Recent Research Trend in Intestinal Members of the organizing committee of SIDDS 2016, who are mostly also members of the Korean Society of Gastroenterology SIDDS 2016
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