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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS OCTOBER 2018
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Celebrating 25 Years of
UEG Week
With more than 13,000 attendees
from 118 different countries, the
25th UEG Week in Barcelona 2017
was again a tremendous success and
a worthy anniversary celebrating 25
years of excellence in gastroenterology.
A world-class program was carefully
pieced together featuring the latest
advancements in clinical management
and the best new research in digestive
health. The greatness of the UEG
Week program lies in its diversity
when it comes to topics, content and
formats.
The congress kicked-off with the
Postgraduate Teaching Program,
comprising of two days of excellent
medical education and state-of theart
sessions. The interactive session
formats included tricky clinical cases,
controversial debates and exciting
video cases, supplying a perfect mix
for both gastroenterologists in training
and established physicians.
The backbone of UEG Week is
the science and how it influences
clinical practice. Every year we have a
two-day program where we focus on a
scientific topic that has already influenced
clinical practice and is likely to
affect how we manage patients in the
future. We call this initiative ‘Today’s
Science, Tomorrow’s Medicine’. This
year the theme was ‘host-microbiota
crosstalk’, with superb and well-attended
overview lectures and abstracts
demonstrating the importance of our
gut microbiota, both in health and
disease. Part of the talks were focusing
on how important the microbes in
our gut are for a healthy life, whereas
other talks described the relevance of
gut microbiota alterations in various
GI and non-GI diseases.
For the practicing clinician, UEG
Week 2017 had a large number of
highly interesting sessions on clinical
guidelines and how they can be
brought into clinical practice, which
is in line with UEG’s recent work to
identify and collect existing European
gastroenterology guidelines for our
members. There were also well-attended
therapy updates on common clinical
problems such as ulcerative colitis,
fecal incontinence, nutrition and
endoscopic complications, as well as a
one-day ‘advances in clinical gastroenterology
and hepatology’ symposium,
highlighting how the clinical management
of functional GI disorders and
gastroesophageal reflux disease has
advanced over the last couple of years.
We have come such a long way
over the past 25 years and this was
reflected in the ‘25th anniversary’
hotspot session, where we heard about
the many fantastic developments in
our field and this is reflected in the
success of UEG Week.
Last, but not least we would like
to mention the record number of
original abstracts at this year’s UEG
Week, and all the enthusiastic and
skilled young abstract presenters. It is
very exciting to see the high visibility
of young gastroenterologists at UEG
Week and how many young doctors
are now involved in the meeting
and playing such a central role in the
content. UEG is constantly looking to
attract the best science and research to
our congress. The meeting provides a
fantastic opportunity for researchers
The backbone of UEG Week
is the science and how it
influences clinical practice.
It is very exciting to see
the high visibility of young
gastroenterologists at UEG
Week and how many young
doctors are now involved
in the meeting and playing
such a central role in the
content.
Welcome to 25th UEG Week
Celebrating 25 years of UEG Week
Poster sessions