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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS APRIL 2018
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GUT 2017: Annual Scientific
Congress of the Malaysian
Society of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
The Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology
and Hepatology (MSGH)
once again successfully organized
its Annual Scientific Meeting from
11th to 13th August 2017 at the G
Hotel Gurney in Penang, Malaysia.
The meeting received more than
300 registrations from both local
and international participants. Prof.
Dr. Paul Moayyedi from McMaster
University, Hamilton, Canada was the
17th MSGH Orator and his topic was
“Population screening and H pylori
eradication to reduce the incidence of
gastric cancer.” Prof. Dr. Lawrence Ho
Khek Yu from the National University
of Singapore was the orator for 14th
Panir Chelvam Memorial Lecture and
the topic of his speech was “Latest
progress in endoscopic robot.” They
were among the 15 international
renowned speakers invited for the
meeting including Drs. Roger Barton,
Ajay Duseja, George Hopkins, Rupert
Leong, Leung Wai Keung, Teerha
Piratvisuth, Lim Seng Gee, Govind
K Makharia, Simon Ng, Ooi Choon
The highlight of the event
was the conferment of the
Excellence Service Award
to one of the Society’s
past presidents, Datuk Dr
Jayaram Menon.
Attendees at the Congress.
Scientific session.
Award presentation to Datuk Dr Jayaram
Menon.
Jin, Gerhard Rogler, Samir Shah and
Reuben K Wong.
Among the topics discussed in this
meeting were Obesity, GI Bleeding,
IBD, Colorectal Cancer Screening,
Functional GI Diseases and latest
hepatology developments. The event
received 62 oral and poster presentations.
The highlight of the event was the
conferment of the Excellence Service
Award to one of the Society’s past
presidents, Datuk Dr Jayaram Menon.
He has spent 24 years as the head of
Tour of the historic Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion.
gastroenterology in Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and
served 10 years as the national head
of gastroenterology service. He has
trained a total of 75 physicians and 20
gastroenterologists, as well as pioneering
the Post-Basic Gastroenterointestinal
Assistant (GIA) training program.
On the evening of 11th August, the
Society honored the invited speakers
with the President’s dinner at the
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, a 19th
century historical building on the
island. The dinner was preceded with
a tour of the mansion and a surprise
durian treat was arranged by the
organizing committee at the end of
the dinner.
The meeting also received good
participation from the biomedical
industry in terms of booth participation
and both lunch and tea satellite
symposia.