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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS APRIL 2018
Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG at ACG 2017 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events
CELEBRATE
• Host a walk-a-thon to rally
your community in support
of WDHD.
• Generate Viral Hepatitis
awareness by developing a
social media campaign.
• Engage your local media with
public service announcements,
To request a copy of the WDHD
2018 logo for use in promoting this
year’s WDHD campaign or to submit
an event, please visit, http://www.
worldgastroenterology.org/forms/
submit-event.php.
Plan Your Own WDHD Event
WGO and WGO Foundation
encourage all members to participate
in World Digestive Health Day 2018
by arranging events in their regions
to observe this day. We hope that this
year’s campaign will help increase
awareness of Viral Hepatitis, B and C,
and its prevalence, worldwide.
Have you started planning your
event? While the official date of
WDHD is 29th May, many events
take place throughout 2018. Past
events include public campaigns,
courses and lectures on treatments
of the current theme, walkathons,
national meetings, press conferences,
radio and television interviews, developing
a country’s own WDHD Day,
publications, and much more!
In the coming months, you will
find available a variety of tools and resources,
which may benefit your physicians,
allied healthcare professionals,
patients and the general public, by
visiting http://www.worldgastroenterology.
org/wgo-foundation/wdhd/
wdhd-2018.
press releases, radio
advertisements, and TV
interviews.
• How are you planning to
CELEBRATE WDHD?
WDHD 2018 Steering Committee
The World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) 2018 Campaign is led by the following
individuals representing a global view and expertise on Viral Hepatitis,
B and C. They will guide the course of the campaign, leading in the development
of tools and resources throughout 2018 and beyond.
Co-Chair, World Digestive Health Day
2018
Yun-Fan Liaw, MD
Chang Gung University & Memorial
Hospital
TAIWAN
Co-Chair, World Digestive Health Day
2018
Brian McMahon, MD
Alaskan Native Tribal Health Consortium
U.S.A.
Chair, WGO Foundation
Naima Amrani, MD
University Mohammed V
MOROCCO
Vice Chair, WGO Foundation
Richard Hunt, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRCPC,
AGAF, MACG, MWGO
UNITED KINGDOM
Member
Joost Drenth, MD, PhD
Radbound UMC
THE NETHERLANDS
Member
Gamal Esmat, MD
Cairo University
EGYPT
Member
Suliman Fedail, MD, FRCP, MWGO
Fedail Hospital
SUDAN
Member
Jordan Feld, MD, MPH
Toronto General Hospital
CANADA
Member
Peter Ferenci, MD
Medical University of Vienna
AUSTRIA
Member
Graham Foster, MBBS, MRCP, PhD,
FRCP
Queen Mary University London
UNITED KINGDOM
Member
Khean-Lee Goh, MBBS, MD, FACG,
FRCP, FASGE
University of Malaya Medical Centre
MALAYSIA
Member
Saeed Hamid, MBBS, MD, FRCP
Aga Khan University Hospital
PAKISTAN
Member
Paul Kwo, MD
Stanford University Medical Center
USA
Member
Douglas LaBrecque, MD, FACP,
FAASLD
University of Iowa Healthcare
USA
Member
Guilherme Macedo, MD, PhD
Centro Hospitalar São João
PORTUGAL
Member
Rosmawati Mohamed, MBBS, MRCP,
MD
University of Malaya Medical Centre
MALAYSIA
Member
Shiv Kumar Sarin, MBBS, MD
Institute of Liver and Biliary Science
INDIA
Member
Jose Sollano, MD
University of Santo Tomas
PHILIPPINES
Member
Wendy Spearman, MBChB, MMed,
PhD
University of Cape Town
SOUTH AFRICA