2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS APRIL 2018
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VOL. 23, 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
• Dan Dumitrascu, Romania
• Sara Elfadil, Sudan
• Amy Foxx-Orenstein, USA
• Ernst Fredericks, South Africa
• Waseem Hamoudi, Jordan
• Nassir Alhaboob Arabi Mohammad, Sudan
• VG Naidoo, South Africa
• Alejandro Piscoya, Peru
• Naoya Sakamoto, Japan
• Michael Schultz, New Zealand
• C. Wendy Spearman, South Africa
• Miguel Valdovinos, Mexico
• Haleh Vaziri, USA
• Lu Xia, China
Managing Editor
James Melberg, WGO Program Manager
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Expert Point of View
President’s Message:
Why Is WGO Still Important? 1
Cihan Yurdaydin, MD
Appropriate use of Fecal Calprotectin 6
VG Naidoo, MD
Editorial
Message from the Editors 9
Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG
Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD
WCOG at ACG 2017
We Are World GI: A Celebration of the World Congress
of Gastroenterology at ACG 2017 10
David J. Bjorkman, MD, MSPH
Carol A. Burke, MD, FACG
Geoffrey Metz, AM MBBS, FRACP, MD, FRCP (UK), FACP
Jonathan A. Leighton, MD, FACG
WGO Announces Recipients of the Masters of the
WGO (MWGO) Award 13
Shiv Kumar Sarin, MD, DM is the
2017 WGO Henry L. Bockus Medal Recipient 14
Eamonn M. M. Quigley, MD, MACG is the 2017
WGO Georges Brohée Medal Recipient 16
Viva Endoscopy! – ASGE-WGO Postgraduate
Course at WCOG at ACG 2017 18
Meeting Today’s Needs & Looking Forward:
A Global Education Network 19
WGO Welcomes Six New Member Societies! 22
Special World Congress of Gastroenterology
Historical Commemorative Display 24
Gastro 2018 - WGO/GAT International Conference:
Global Perspectives in Gastroenterology in
Bangkok, Thailand 25