WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS
Official e-newsletter of the World Gastroenterology Organisation
VOL. 24, ISSUE 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Mark Topazian, MD
Welcome to Istanbul and the World
Congress of Gastroenterology!
Cihan Yurdaydın, MD
President, World Gastroenterology Organisation
Serhat Bor, MD
President, Turkish Society of Gastroenterology
Welcome to the World Congress of Gastroenterology, to Istanbul, and Turkey. Our colleagues
and we are excited about presenting this outstanding conference in Turkey. We
hope to meet as many of you as possible so that we can share with you our enthusiasm
for this meeting and our country Turkey.
This congress is being organized jointly by the World Gastroenterology Organisation
(WGO) and Turkish Society of Gastroenterology (TSG).
The meeting will be exceptional with international experts complementing local
faculty, over 100 speakers in total, presenting a program with numerous concurrent sessions
each day. The convention center -- the Istanbul Congress Center -- as well as the
congress hotels are located near the famous historic sites of Istanbul, as well as Taksim
Square, and is close to the banks of the beautiful Bosphorus. For the first time in the
history of the WCOG many of the sessions will be translated simultaneously into Russian
and Turkish.
Saturday 21 September 2019
The program begins on Saturday 21 September with 3 Postgraduate Courses: “Hot
Topics in Gastroenterology”, “The Bugs Among Us: Microbiota in Health and Disease”
and “Advances in GI Pharmacology”. Additionally, we will offer Endoscopy Video Sessions
(chaired by Profs. Mark Topazian and Seth Gross).
One of the pillars of WGO is the Guidelines and Cascades. Many of WGO’s
Guidelines will be highlighted as part of the robust Scientific Program of the WCOG
in Istanbul. Be sure to attend the sessions featuring: Celiac Disease (Prof. Carolina
Olano), Diet and the Gut (Prof. Govind Makharia), GERD (Prof. Greger Lindberg),
HCC (Prof. Salma Barakat Modawi), Hepatitis B (Prof. Vasily A. Isakov), Hepatitis
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Ubal Dhus, MD