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15 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS AUGUST 2015 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events • “Gut Microbiota and FMT” by YZ Nie • “Clinical Management of Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia” by YQ Shi • “Capsule Endoscopy for GI Dis-ease Diagnosis” by DX Zhang • “ESD Technology for the Treat-ment of Early Gastrointestinal Cancer” by ZG Liu • “GI Endoscopy Live Demonstra-tion” by XG Guo, ZG Liu, XY Zhang, and YL Pan • “Liver Vascular Interventional Therapy Live Demonstration” by GH Han On the second day, in the live dem-onstration session, gastrointestinal endoscopy demonstrations on selected cases which required endoscopic intervention were carried out through live broadcast of endoscopic manipu-lations on two large screens in the conference hall. These cases included common bile duct stones, biliary strictures, pancreatic pseudocyst, early gastric cancer, colon large polyps. achalasia, refractory constipation, etc. The endoscopic techniques performed included endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST), fine needle aspiration (FNA), per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), polypectomy, and endoscopic delivery of fecal microbiota extract. In the case discussion session, sev-eral cases involving hepatic blood ves-sels (including Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis) were presented along with a demonstration of how modern transjugular intra-hepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) techniques can be used to reconstruct the obstructed vessels and relieve symptoms. During lunch time and at the end of the course the trainees visited the endoscopy center and interventional center. At the end of the course all trainees took a questionnaire to score the performance of every lecture from XJHDD and to give their com-ments and advice on the course. On the questionnaire each trainee was asked to give four votes for the best four lecturers in their opinion. The scoring system is based on the votes each lecturer gets and is used as a tool to evaluate the performance of his or her presentation. The lecturer who gets the fewest votes will be put on probation and a new lecturer will replace him/her in the future classes. Finally every participant was awarded a certificate endorsed by the WGO-Xijing Training Center and signed by its Director, Prof. Kaichun Wu. Xijing Hospital of Digestive Dis-eases originates from the Department of Gastroenterology and therefore is an integral part of the larger Xijing Hospital, which is one of three affili-ated Training Center Director, Prof. Kaichun Wu, with WGO President, Prof. James Toouli. Training Center Director, Prof. Kaichun Wu; WGO President, Prof. James Toouli; WGO Vice President, Prof. KL Goh; and Chair of the WGO Scientific Programs Committee and President of Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Prof. Daiming Fan; with faculty. hospitals of the Fourth Military Medical University. Xi’an is a histori-cal city, located in the mid-west of China, and was the capital of more than a dozen dynasties of ancient China. It is also the home to one of the so-called eight wonders of the world, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Emperor Qin’s Tombs.


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