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VOL. 23, ISSUE 2
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
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Expert Point of View
Dietary recommendations for IBS patients 1
Dan L. Dumitrascu, MD, PhD, AGAF, RFF
Editorial
Message from the Editors 6
Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD
Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG
Gastro 2018
Gastro 2018 - WGO/GAT International Conference:
Global Perspectives in Gastroenterology in Bangkok 7
World Congress of Gastroenterology 2019, Istanbul 8
WDHD News
WDHD 2018 Highlights 9
WDHD 2018 in Kazakhstan:
“World Day of Healthy Digestion” 11
World Digestive Health Day in Karachi, Pakistan 12
Zaigham Abbas, MD
World Digestive Health Day in Venezuela 13
Gisela Romero, MD
Edgardo Mengual, MD
WGO & WGOF News
‘Microbiota Hard Talks - Live from Texas Medical
Center’ Continues to Attract Large Numbers
of Viewers 15
Microbiota Hard Talks 17
WGO at Digestive Disease Week 18
WGO Train the Trainers Khartoum 2018 20
Train The Trainers Workshop (by the World
Gastroenterology Organization) in Khartoum, Sudan: 21