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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS OCTOBER 2018
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The 17th Iranian Congress of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology (ICGH 2017)
Akram Pourshams, MD
Secretary
Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The 17th Iranian Congress of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
(ICGH 2017) was held by the Iranian
Association of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology (IAGH) in collaboration
with the Digestive Disease Research
Institute of Tehran University of
Medical Sciences, 21-24 November
2017 at the International Conference
Center of Shahid Beheshti University
in Tehran, Iran.
The ICGH 2017 postgraduate
course comprised of a one-day worldclass
CME for hepatologists in practice
on 21 November 2017. A total
of 295 physicians officially attended
the postgraduate course. From 22-24
November 2017, the Congress offered
profound updates of latest developments
in gastroenterology topics. A
total of 909 physicians and researchers
from all over the country, as well
as 143 domestic and foreign speakers
participated in the 17th ICGH.
The features of the 17th Congressional
panels included:
1. Number of panels -- 22
2. The presence of relevant specialists
(surgeon, oncologist, radiologist,
nephrologist, nutritionist,
psychiatrist, pathologist, geneticmolecular,
allergy specialist) along
with gastroenterologists.
3. Notable number of younger participants.
4. Widespread panel members from
90% of Iran’s universities, and
an impressive number of female
specialists.
5. Foreign and Iranian experts presenting
alongside on the panels.
Prof. Jean-Francois Rey, President
of the World Endoscopy Organization
(WEO), was a speaker who, in
addition to giving a lecture on the
small intestinal examination methods,
signed an agreement with the IAGH
for education of the Iranian GI Fellows
at some of the WEO education
centers for a few weeks.
Prof. Gerhard Rogler (Scientific
officer of the European Crohn’s and
Colitis Organisation), Prof. Paolo
Giorgio Arcidiacono (Head of Pancreas
Biliary Endoscopy and Endosonography
division of the San Raffaele
Hospital University, Milan, Italy),
Prof. Ali Keshavarzian (Director of
the Division of Digestive Diseases at
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago,
USA), and Prof. Iradj Sobhani
(Head of Gastroenterology Department,
Henri Mondor Hospital and
University Paris-Est Creteil, France)
participated on the joint panel along
with Iranian experts. Additionally, the
Rome Foundation endorsed the IBS
educational section of ICGH 2017.
ICGH 2017 received 128 abstracts,
and from those 112 abstracts were accepted
for poster presentation. Three
of them received Top Abstract Prizes.
Four workshops (upper endoscopy,
small intestinal single balloon, Fibro
scan) and two morning IBD symposia
were held concurrently.
A total of 909 physicians
and researchers from all
over the country, as well as
143 domestic and foreign
speakers participated in the
17th ICGH.
Participants at ICGH 2017