3 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS APRIL 2018
Contents
WDHD News
World Digestive Health Day 2017
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Navigating
Evolving Therapies in an Evolving Disease 26
Join WGO as We Strive to Lift the Global Burden
of Viral Hepatitis in 2018 27
French and Spanish Translations Available Now for
the Lactose Digestion Education Campaign 30
WDHD: International Symposium on Inflammatory
Bowel Disease (IBD 2017) in Chennai, India 31
K R Palaniswamy, MBBS, MD, DM (Gastro), FRCP
Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD
WGO & WGOF News
Train the Trainers in Sudan 33
Train the Trainers in Portugal 34
The 8th Congress of the Africa Middle East Association
for Gastroenterology - AMAGE 2017 Recap 35
WGO Addis Ababa Training Center Post-Congress
Training Session 36
Amir Sultan, MD
Live Connections Nearly Double for the Final Webinar
of the 2017 ‘Microbiota Hard Talks – Live from Texas
Medical Center’ Webinar Series 38
Report on Guategastro2017 in Guatemala 40
Julio Recinos, MD
GUT 2017: Annual Scientific Congress of the Malaysian
Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 41
X Gastrotrilogy in Veracruz, Mexico 42
Mercedes Amieva Balmori, MD
XI Gastrotrilogy in Guadalajara, Mexico 44
Aurelio López Colombo, MD
Summary of the XXIII United Russian
Gastroenterology Week 46
Arkady Sheptulin, MD
WGO is Live on LinkedIn 48
WGO Global Guidelines
WGO Global Guidelines and Cascades 49
Calendar of Events
Calendar of Events 50
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