2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS SEPTEMBER 2019
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VOL. 24, ISSUE 2
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
Welcome to Istanbul and the World Congress of
Gastroenterology! 1
Ciyan Yurdaydın, MD
Serhat Bor, MD
Editorial
Message from the Editors 6
Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD
Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG
Gastro 2020
Gastro 2020 Prague: Save the Date! 7
WDHD News
World Digestive Health Day 2019 – Thank You 8
WDHD in Argentina:
New concepts in detection of colorectal cancer
– Do we begin at 45 or 50 years of age? 9
WDHD in Brazil: Prevention of Gastrointestinal Cancer
— Social Actions in the Northeast of Brazil 11
WDHD in Cuba
– Scientific Session in Havana 12
WDHD in Tamil Nadu, India 13
Ubal Dhus, MD
Mongolian Digestive Disease Week 2019 14
World Digestive Health Day 2019 in
Karachi, Pakistan 16
Zaigham Abbas, MD
WDHD in Uruguay 17
2020 WDHD Theme Announced! 18