2 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS FEBRUARY 2019
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VOL. 23, 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
• 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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James Melberg, WGO Program Manager
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Gastro 2018
A Celebration of Gastro 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand 1
Varocha Mahachai, MD, FRCPC, FACG, AGAF
David Bjorkman, MD, MSPH SM, FACG
Teerha Piratvisuth, MD
Carolina Olano, MD
Message from the Editors
Message from the Editors 5
WDHD News
World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) 2019 7
Thank You for Supporting World Digestive Health Day
2018 8
World Digestive Health Day 2018 in Odisha, India 9
Shivaram Prasad Singh, MBBS, MD, DM, FSGEI, FACG, FRCP (Edin)
World Digestive Health Day 2018 in Malaysia 11
WDHD 2018 in Portugal: Gastroenterologists put
Hepatitis C on the Agenda of Politicians 12
Guilherme Macedo
WGO & WGOF News
Dr. Richard N. Fedorak, 1955-2018 13
Richard Hunt, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRCP(C), AGAF, MACG, MWGO
Train the Trainers in Romania 15
Microbiota Hard Talks 16
Pan-American Digestive Disease Week in Brazil 16
The 18th Congress of Gastroenterology China 17
Indonesian Digestive Disease Week (IDDW) 2018 18
Malaysian GUT 2018 and Clinical Meetings 19
Nigeria Marks World Hepatitis Day 20
Dr. Olusegun Isaac Alatise