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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2019
Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG 2019 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events
2020 WDHD Theme Announced!
The World Digestive Health Day
(WDHD) theme in 2020 is the Gut
Microbiome: A Global Perspective
led by Co-Chairs Eamonn Quigley,
MD, FRCP, FACP (United States)
and Uday Ghoshal, MD, DNB, DM,
FACG (India), and the WDHD
2020 Steering Committee. WGO
calls on its member societies, regional
affiliates, and partner organizations
to organize events to raise awareness
around the 2020 theme. Watch the
WDHD website at www.worldgastroenterology.
org/wgo-foundation/wdhd
and WGO publications as more
information, tools, and resources
become available.
Meet the WDHD 2020 Steering
Committee
The World Digestive Health Day
2020 campaign is led by the following
individuals representing a global view
and expertise on the Gut Microbiome.
They will guide the course of the
campaign, leading the development of
tools and resources.
Co-Chair World Digestive Health
Day 2020
Eamonn Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP
The Methodist Hospital
United States
Co-Chair World Digestive Health
Day 2020
Uday Ghoshal, MD, DNB, DM,
FACG
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute
of Medical Sciences
India
Members
Naima Amrani, MD
Mohamed V University – Rabat
Morocco
Julio Bai, MD
University Del Salvador
Argentina
Premysl Bercik, MD
McMaster University
Canada
Catherine Buckley, MD
APC Microbiome Institute
Ireland
Paúl Cárdenas, MD, PhD
Universidad San Francisco de Quito,
Institute of Microbiology
Ecuador
Henry Cohen, MD, PhD
University of the Republic Uruguay
Uruguay
Francisco Guarner, MD
University Hospital Vall D’Hebron
Spain
Saeed Hamid, MD, MBBS, FRCP
Aga Khan University Hospital
Pakistan
Gerald Holtmann, MD
The University of Queensland
Australia
Richard Hunt, FRCP, FRCPEd,
FRCPC
McMaster University Health Science
Centre
United Kingdom
Dina Kao, MD
University of Alberta
Canada
Tarkan Karakan, MD
Gazi University
Turkey
Leonid Lazebnik, MD, PhD
Moscow University of Medicine and
Dentistry
Russia
Guilherme Macedo, MD, PhD
Centro Hospitalar Sao Joao
Portugal
Stephen J.D. O’Keefe, MBBS, MD,
MSc, MRCS
The African Microbiome Institute
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
Mary Ellen Sanders, MD
International Scientific Association for
Probiotics and Prebiotics
United States
Fergus Shanahan, MD
University College Cork
Ireland
Ala Sharara, MD, FACG, AGAF,
FRCP
American University of Beirut Medical
Center
Lebanon
Justin Wu, MD
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Hong Kong
Plan Your Own WDHD Event
Start planning your event today. Past
events include public campaigns,
courses and lectures on treatments
of the current theme, walkathons,
national meetings, press conferences,
radio and television interviews, devel