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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2019
Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG 2019 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events
take place throughout 2019. WGO
challenges you to get involved in the
campaign by creating exciting ways to
raise awareness around the benefits of
the early diagnosis and treatments of
digestive cancers all year long, to improve
the standards of practice, and to
educate the public. WGO is pleased
to provide you with a few ways that
you can TAKE ACTION and CELEBRATE
World Digestive Health
Day in your respective community
(see the breakout boxes). WGO and
The WGO Foundation are appreciative
of all campaign participants and
for the ongoing efforts in supporting
the WDHD 2019 campaign. We look
forward to a successful year!
TAKE ACTION
• Host an academic conference or
symposium featuring scientific
programs, plenaries, posters presentations,
and forums.
• Create prevention toolkits for
healthcare professionals and the
general public.
• Organize a public awareness campaign
and disseminate campaign
materials through blogs, podcasts,
videos, and brochures.
• How will you TAKE ACTION to
support WDHD?
CELEBRATE
• Host a walk-a-thon to rally
your community in support of
WDHD.
• Generate awareness by developing
a social media campaign.
• Engage your local media with public
service announcements, press
releases, radio advertisements, and
TV interviews.
• How are you planning to CELEBRATE
WDHD?
To submit an event to the WGO
Meetings & Events Calendar please
visit www.worldgastroenterology.org/
forms/submit-event.php.
Plan Your Own WDHD Event
WGO and The WGO Foundation
encourage all members to participate
in World Digestive Health Day 2019
by organizing events in their regions
to observe this day. We hope that this
year’s campaign will help increase
awareness of the importance of the
Early Diagnosis and Treatment of GI
Cancer worldwide.
Have you started planning your
event? Past events include public
campaigns, courses and lectures on
treatments of the current theme,
walkathons, national meetings, press
conferences, radio and television
interviews, developing a country’s
own WDHD Day, publications, and
much more!
In the coming months, you will
find available a variety of tools and
resources, which may benefit your
physicians, allied healthcare professionals,
patients and the general
public, by visiting www.worldgastroenterology.
org/wgo-foundation/wdhd/
wdhd-2019.
WDHD 2019 Steering Committee
The World Digestive Health Day
2019 campaign is led by the following
individuals representing a global view
and expertise on the Early Diagnosis
and Treatment of GI Cancer. They are
guiding the course of the campaign,
and are leading in the development of
tools and resources throughout 2019
and beyond.
Co-Chair World Digestive Health
Day 2019
Kentaro Sugano, MD
Jichi Medical University
Japan
Co-Chair World Digestive Health
Day 2019
Joseph Sung, MD, PhD, FRCP,
MNGO
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Hong Kong
Co-Chair World Digestive Health
Day 2019
Richard Hunt, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRCPC,
MWGO
McMaster University Health Science
Centre
United Kingdom
Chair, WGO Foundation
Naima Amrani, MD
Mohamed V University – Rabat
Morocco
Members
Han-Mo Chiu, MD
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Henry Cohen, MD
University of the Republic Uruguay
Uruguay
Francesco Di Mario, MD
University of Palma
Italy
Takuji Gotoda, MD
Nihon University
Japan
David Graham, MD, MACG
Baylor College of Medicine
United States
Abdel Meguid Kassem, MD
Cairo University
Egypt
Nayoung Kim, MD, PhD
Seoul National University
Korea
Ernst Kuipers, MD, PhD
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Netherlands
Yi-Chia Lee, MD, PhD
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Wai Keung Leung, MD
Hong Kong University
Hong Kong
Brigette Ma, MD
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Hong Kong