2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2019
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VOL. 24, ISSUE 1
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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WCOG 2019
World Congress of Gastroenterology 2019, Istanbul 5
Editorial
Message from the Editors 6
Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD
Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG
Expert Point of View
Achalasia: New Insights in Pathophysiology 7
Janette Furuzawa-Carballeda, MSc, PhD
Gonzalo Torres-Villalobos, MD, PhD
Miguel A. Valdovinos, MD
WDHD News
Welcome to World Digestive Health Day (WDHD)
2019! 11
Kentaro Sugano, MD
Joseph Sung, MD, PhD, FRCP, MWGO
Richard Hunt, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRCPC, MWGO
WGO & WGOF News
The La Paz Training Center Revisited – the Legacy of
Guido Villa-Gomez MD MWGO 14
Eamonn M.M. Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP, MACG, FRCPI
Henry Cohen, MD, FACG
18th WGO-RTC Post-Graduate Course at the
Rabat Training Center, Morocco 17
Alan Barkun, MD,CM, FRCP(C), FACP, FACG, AGAF, MSc (Clinical
Epidemiology)
WGO Train the Trainers Bucharest 2019 19
Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2018 in Seoul, Korea 23
Khean-Lee Goh, MD
28th Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Association
for the Study of the Liver 26
ISGCON 2018 — 59th Annual Conference of Indian
Society of Gastroenterology 28
Naresh Bhat, MD, DM
Govind Makharia, MBBS, MD, DM, DNB