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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS APRIL 2018
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tion of specialty postgraduate courses
at the University of Pennsylvania,
which were attended by numerous
physicians from North and South
America as well as from Europe. He
was elected President of the first
World Congress of Gastroenterology,
held in Washington, DC, USA on 29
May 1958. On the last day of the
Congress a provisional WGO
Governing Council was elected, and
Dr. Bockus became the first president
of what is now the World Gastroenterology
Organisation. His vision to
enhance standards of education and
training in gastroenterology lives on
today.
Dr. Sarin: “Liver pressure has come of age.”
