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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
Message from the Editors
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
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
Greetings from your co-editors Chris
and Mario. In this issue you will find
an excellent article on the role of
diet in treatment of irritable bowel
syndrome from Dr. Dan Dumitrascu
from Iuliu Hatieganu University in
Romania. He has extensive experience
and shares with us a practical
approach to dietary recommendations
for our patients.
This year’s World Digestive Health
Day was focused on viral hepatitis.
We have heard of 19 events in 13
countries, and some of those are reported
in this issue. Next year’s topic
will be GI cancer.
Moreover the successful TTT program
continues to thrive, this year’s
meetings in Sudan and Portugal were
resounding successes. Read comments
from the attendees themselves, and
consider attending or recommending
to your colleagues for future programs.
The success of the Porto TTT
program is evident in the many attendee
essays in this issue. We direct
your attention to them as well as the
interesting introductory quote in the
essay by Wojciech Marlicz, MD, PhD,
FACG, Department of Gastroenterology,
Pomeranian Medical University,
Szczecin, Poland, who states:
“Uncertainty has never been as
vivid and important as it is today in
contemporary medicine. The topic of
leadership and management has never
been so crucial as it is nowadays.”
His essay also ends with a wonderful
quote that we can all live by. He states
it is an old saying: “Don’t walk behind
me; I may not lead. Don’t walk
in front of me; I may not follow. Just
walk beside me and be my friend.”
Finally it is a year since the successful
ACG-WGO congress in Orlando
Florida in 2017, but not too early
to plan to attend Gastro 2018 in
Bangkok Thailand from December
5-8, 2018.
We hope you enjoy this issue, and
as always feedback and comments re
welcome.
Chris and Mario.