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2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2016 Contents VOL. 21, 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 • Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal • Amy Foxx-Orenstein, USA • Waseem T.Y. Hamoudi, Jordan • Abdel Maguid Kassem, Egypt • Björn Lindkvist, Sweden • Chun-Jen Liu, Taiwan • Adam Mahomed, South Africa • Alejandro Piscoya, Peru • Arnoldo Riquelme, Chile • Michael Schultz, New Zealand • Ala Sharara, Lebanon • C. Wendy Spearman, South Africa • Maria Claudia Stefanoli, Uruguay • Christo Van Rensburg, South Africa • Haleh Vaziri, USA • Marcelo F. Vela, USA Managing Editors Marissa Lopez, WGO Senior Program Manager Elisabeth Vink, WGO Program Manager Art Production Jennifer Gubbin Editorial Office WGO Executive Secretariat 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100 Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA info@worldgastroenterology.org ©2016 World Gastroenterology Organisation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Editors https://www.facebook.com/WGOWGOF https://twitter.com/WGO_WGOF www.worldgastroenterology.org Expert Point of View Emerging Issues in Hepatitis D 1 Zaigham Abbas, MBBS, FCPS, FRCP, FRCPI, FACP, FACG, AGAF Editorial Message from the Editors 6 Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: Even Today a Puzzling Disease of Pregnancy 7 Rodrigo Zapata MD, FAASLD Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO International Congress 12 WDHD News WDHD 2016: The Campaign So Far… 15 A Report on the Nutrition Summit 17 Govind K. Makharia, MD, DM, DNB, MNAMS FODMAPs, Food Allergy, and More 19 Felipe Finkelstein, MD Kasturba Medical College Hospital Manipal Observes World Digestive Health Day 20 Shiran Shetty, MD, DM World Digestive Health Day Celebrations in Myanmar 21 Thein Myint, MBBS, MMedSc (Int.Med), MRCP, FRCP, Dr.MedSc(Gastroenterology) World Digestive Health Day “Diet and the Gut” 23 Wojciech Marlicz, MD, PhD The Emirates World Digestive Health Day 2016: A Success Story 25 Ali Al Fazari, MBBS, FRCPC, FACP


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