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2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 Contents VOL. 21, ISSUE 3 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 Editor James Melberg, 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 http://fb.me/WGOWGOF https://twitter.com/WGO_WGOF www.worldgastroenterology.org Expert Point of View Pediatric-to-Adult Transition of Care in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A common and necessary process 1 Anita Afzali MD, MPH Editorial Message from the Editors 7 Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD Endoscopy: The Future is Wireless, Indeed 8 Konstantinos Triantafyllou, MD, PhD, FEBGH Chrysoula Malli, MD WDHD News World Digestive Health Day 2016 Diet and the Gut – Your Diet and Gut Health 11 World Digestive Health Day Observed at Ziauddin University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan 13 Zaigham Abbas, MBBS, FCPS, FRCP, FRCPI, FACP, FACG, AGAF India Celebrated 3 Days of “Diet and the Gut” Awareness Program from 27-29 May 2016: An account of World Digestive Health Day 29th May 2016 14 Prashanth B N, MD World Digestive Health Day/Year 2016: Diet and the Gut in Venezuela 16 Maribel Lizarzabal, MD, PhD Mildred Fuenmayor, MD Karla Acero, MD WDHD 2016 in India: A report on participation o n a nationally televised show 18 Dr Govind K Makharia, MD, DM, DNB, MNAMS World Digestive Health Day in Paraíba: A report of a social action in the northeast of Brazil 19 Tarciana Costa, PhD


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