Executive Committee

President

Prof. Naima Lahbabi-Amrani
Morocco
Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
Mohammed V University
Rabat

President-Elect and Chair of the WGO Foundation

Prof. Guilherme Macedo
Portugal
Centro Hospitalar São João
Porto

Secretary General

Prof. Geoffrey Metz
Australia
Epworth Hospital
Richmond, VIC

Treasurer

Prof. Mark Topazian
USA

Past President and Chair of Nominations

Prof. Cihan Yurdaydin
Turkey
Koc University Medical School
Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Istanbul

Committee and Interest Group Chairs

Chair, Clinical Research Committee

Prof. Desmond Leddin
Canada
Victoria General Hospital
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Chair, Guidelines Committee

Prof. David Armstrong
Canada
McMaster University
Department of Medicine
Hamilton, Ontario

Chair, Publications Committee

Prof. Alejandro Piscoya
Peru
Hospital Guillermo Kaelin de La Fuente
Lima

Promotion of Education in Asia-Pacific Region

Prof. Kaichun Wu
China
Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
Xi'an, Shaanxi

Chair, Scientific Programs Committee

Prof. Carolina Olano
Uruguay
Associate Professor - Universidad de La República
Montevideo

Chair, Training Centers Committee

Prof. Finlay Macrae
Australia
The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Head, Colorectal Medicine and Genetics
Melbourne, Victoria

Chair, Train the Trainers Committee

Prof. Jean-Christophe Saurin
France
Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hépato-Gastroentérologie
Lyon Cedex 03

Chair, Young Members Committee

Prof. Aasma Shaukat
USA
Minneapolis VAHCS
Minneapolis, MN

Chair, Endoscopy, Other Procedures and Outreach Interest Group

Prof. Vivek Kaul
USA
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Chair, Hepatology Interest Group

Prof. Saeed Hamid
Pakistan
Aga Khan University Hospital, Department of Medicine
Karachi

Regional Association Presidents

African Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE)

Prof. Reda Elwakil
Egypt
Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine
Ain Shams University
Cairo

Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APAGE)

Prof. Daiming Fan
China
Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
Fourth Military Medical University
Xi'an

Pan-American Gastroenterological Association (OPGE)

Prof. Eduardo Gutierrez Galiana
Uruguay
Clinica Platinum
Montevideo

United European Gastroenterology (UEG)

Prof. Axel Dignass
Germany
Agaplesion Markus Hospital
Frankfurt