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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS OCTOBER 2018
Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2018 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events
‘Microbiota Hard Talks - Live from Texas
Medical Center’ Continues to Attract Large
Numbers of Viewers
The second webinar in 2018 of the
“Microbiota Hard Talks – Live from
Texas Medical Center” webinar series
was broadcast on Thursday, 12 July
2018. Moderated by Prof. Henry Cohen
(Uruguay), the webinar featured
Prof. Eamonn Quigley (USA), MD,
PhD, who discussed the topic “Functional
Gastrointestinal Disorders and
Microbiota.”
Prof. Quigley presented that
functional gastrointestinal disorders
(FGIDs) include functional heartburn,
functional dyspepsia, irritable
bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic
idiopathic constipation (CIC), and
he focused his discussion on the latter
two: IBS and CIC.
The live broadcast of the second
webinar had over 500 live connections
from all continents, which was
an increase in the number of live connections
from the first webinar for
2018! The Asia Pacific region had the
most live connections of the second
webinar, followed by Europe and the
Americas. We look forward to this
number increasing for the next and
final webinar of 2018, in November!
Next Webinar in November 2018
The next and final 2018 webinar will
take place LIVE at 8:00 – 8:45 AM
CST ((Houston Time GMT–6:00)/
1:00 – 1:45 PM (GMT) on Wednesday,
7 November 2018. Prof. Fergus
Shanahan, Director of APC Microbiome
Ireland will present “Dysbiotic
Microbiota: Facts and Fiction.”
To view the complete program for
2018 and to stay up-to-date with
announcements about the webinar
series:
• Visit the WGO Educational Programs
page, http://www.worldgastroenterology.
org/education-andtraining/
educational-programs/
microbiota-hard-talks
• Join the #MHT2018 conversation
on social media, http://www.
worldgastroenterology.org/aboutwgo/
media-center/social-media
• Subscribe to the WGO Mailing
List, http://www.worldgastroenterology.
org/forms/mailing-list.php
On-Demand Availability
If you missed the live broadcasts of
the Microbiota Hard Talks webinar
series in 2017 and 2018, all previous
webinars are available for on-demand
viewing! To access the webinar series,
The Asia Pacific region had
the most live connections
of the second webinar,
followed by Europe and
the Americas. Professors Quigley and Cohen