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WGO Committees

  • Finance Committee

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    • Committee Chair: Douglas LaBrecque, Switzerland
    • Committee members:
    • Gourdas Choudhuri, India
    • Wolfgang Fleig, Deutschland
    • Kenji Fujiwara, Japan
    • Joseph E. Geenen, USA
    • Walter J. Hogan, USA
    • Patricia S. Latham, USA
    • Dillip Patel, Canada
    • Herbie Schneider, South Africa
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  • WGO Guidelines and Publications Committee

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    • Committee Chair: Michael Fried, Switzerland
    • Committee members:
    • Zaigham Abbas, Pakistan
    • Bandar Al-Knawy, Saudi Arabia
    • Reid Ally, South Africa
    • Roza Bektayeva, Kazakhstan
    • David J Bjorkman, USA
    • Julio Horacio Carri, Argentina
    • Petr Díte, Czech Republic
    • A. Elewaut, Belgium
    • R. Eliakim, Israel
    • Suliman S. Fedail, Sudan
    • Peter Ferenci, Austria
    • Khean-Lee Goh, Malaysia
    • Francisco Guarner, Spain
    • Saeed S. Hamid, Pakistan
    • Jenny Heathcote, Canada
    • M. Hoai Nguyen, USA
    • Richard Hunt, Canada
    • Michio Imawari, Japan
    • Vassili Isakov, Russia
    • Igor L. Khalif, Russia
    • A.G. Khan, Pakistan
    • Justus H. Krabshuis, France
    • Angel Lanas, Spain
    • Daniel Lavanchy, Switzerland
    • Greger Lindberg, Sweden
    • Juan-R. Malagelada, Spain
    • Peter Malfertheiner, Germany
    • Sathaporn Manatsathit, Thailand
    • Guo Ming Xu, China
    • Valérie Paradis, France
    • Skerdi Prifti, Albania
    • A.A. Rani, Indonesia
    • Anil K. Rustgi, USA
    • Roque Sáenz, Chile
    • J. Sakai, Japan
    • Prateek Sharma, USA
    • Esmat Sheba, Egypt
    • Rakesh Tandon, India
    • Alan B.R. Thomson, Canada
    • Alexander Trukhmanov, Russia
    • Benjamin C Y Wong, China
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  • Nominations Committee

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    • Committee Chair: Guido N. J Tytgat, The Netherlands
    • Committee members:
    • Naima Amrani, Morocco
    • Constantine Arvanitakis, Greece
    • Julio Horacio Carri, Argentina
    • Abdel Rahman El-Zayadi, Egypt
    • Suliman S. Fedail, Sudan
    • Peter Ferenci, Austria
    • Elena Fosman, Uruguay
    • Masayuki A. Fujino, Japan
    • Walter J. Hogan, USA
    • Vladimir T. Ivashkin, Russia
    • René Lambert, France
    • Chung Owyang, USA
    • Francesco Paolo Rossini, Italy
    • S.K Sarin, India
    • Zeyah Sharaiha, Jordan
    • Ha Van Mao, Vietnam
    • Shu-Dong Xiao, China
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  • Education & Training Committee

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    • Coordinator: James Toouli, Australia
    • Committee members:
    • Outreach Project Team
    • Research Methodology Project Team
    • Scientific Programs Project Team
    • Train the Trainers Project Team
    • Training Centres Project Team
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    • Training Centers Committee

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      • Co-Chair: Dr David J Bjorkman, USA
      • Co-Chair: Prof S.M. Wasim Jafri, Pakistan
      • Co-Chair: Prof Roque Sáenz, Chile
      • Co-Chair: Prof James Toouli, Australia
      • Team Members:
      • Dr. Hussein Abdel-Hamid, Egypt
      • Professor Reid Ally, South Africa
      • Professor Naima Amrani, Morocco
      • Professor Guido Costamagna, Italy
      • Dr. Richard Kozarek, USA
      • Professor Nestor Landoni, Argentina
      • Dr Sathaporn Manatsathit, Thailand
      • Professor Ibrahim Mostafa, Egypt
      • Dr. C. Navarrete, Chile
      • Professor Guido Villa-Gomez Roig, Bolivia
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    • Train the Trainers

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      • Team Leader: James Toouli, Australia
      • Team Members:
      • Simon Bar-Meir, Israel
      • Damon Bizos, South Africa
      • David J Bjorkman, USA
      • Henry Cohen, Uruguay
      • Amanda Caroline Dawson, Australia
      • Jaime Eisig, Brazil
      • Christian Gluud, Denmark
      • Hein G Gooszen, The Netherlands
      • S.M. Wasim Jafri, Pakistan
      • Abdel Meguid Kassem, Egypt
      • Douglas LaBrecque, USA
      • Guilherme Macedo, Portugal
      • Geoffrey Metz, Australia
      • Eamonn Quigley, Ireland
      • Gianluca Rotondano, Italy
      • Roque Sáenz, Chile
      • Antonio Santos, Portugal
      • Davor Stimac, Croatia
      • Daniel Oscar Taullard, Uruguay
      • Robin H. Teague, United Kingdom
      • Onno T. Terpstra, The Netherlands
      • Sandie R. Thomson, South Africa
      • Boris Vucelic, Croatia
      • Ian Wallace, New Zealand
      • David Zagalsky, Argentina
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    • Scientific Programmes

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      • Team Leader: Fergus Shanahan, Ireland
      • Team Members:
      • John Baillie, USA
      • Alan N. Barkun, Canada
      • Henry J. Binder, USA
      • Sedat Boyacioglu, Turkey
      • Jacques Devière, Belgium
      • Christiane Fibbe, Deutschland
      • Paul Fockens, The Netherlands
      • Hein G Gooszen, The Netherlands
      • Emmet Keeffe, USA
      • Joseph W.Y. Lau, SAR China
      • Jaw-Town Lin, Taiwan
      • San Ren Lin, China
      • Reza Malekzadeh, Iran
      • Michael Manns, Deutschland
      • Sasa Markovic, Slovenia
      • Leszek Paradowski, Poland
      • Thierry Ponchon, France
      • Akram Pourshams, Iran
      • Don W. Powell, USA
      • Joaquim Prado de Moraes Filho, Brazil
      • Khawaja Quamaruddin Sediqi, Afghanistan
      • Ursula Seidler, Deutschland
      • Joseph Jao Yiu Sung, Hong Kong
      • L. Sutherland, Canada
      • Hisao Tajiri, Japan
      • Sandie R. Thomson, South Africa
      • Anca Trifan, Romania
      • Zsolt Tulassay, Hungary
      • Wei-Cheng You, China
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    • Research Methodology

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      • Team Leader: Richard N. Fedorak, Canada
      • Project Team:
      • Ulus Salih Akarca, Turkey
      • Naima Amrani, Morocco
      • Julio Bai, Argentina
      • J. Bosch, Spain
      • Javier Brahm Barru, Chile
      • Andrea Branch, USA
      • Ivan Jovanovic, Serbia and Montenegro
      • John A. Karagiannis, Greece
      • Abdel Meguid Kassem, Egypt
      • Emmet Keeffe, USA
      • Miodrag Kstic, Serbia and Montnegro
      • San Ren Lin, China
      • Godfrey Nsereko Lule, Kenya
      • Rafael A. Mosquera, Puerto Rico
      • Betty Musau, Kenya
      • Elly Ogutu, Kenya
      • Mahmoud M. Omar, Egypt
      • Masao Omata, Japann
      • Paolo Paoluzi, Italy
      • Jia-Ming Qian, China
      • Dario Sorrentino, Italy
      • Christian Tzeuton, Cameroon
      • Muhammad Umar, Pakistan
      • Sander V. Van Zanten, Canada
      • Khin Maung Win, Myanmar
      • Miroslav Zavoral, Czech Republic
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    • Standards in GI Training

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      • Team Leader: Cihan Yurdaydin, Turkey
      • Project Team:
      • Gulchin A. Ergun, USA
      • Elena Fosman, Uruguay
      • Jean-Paul Galmiche, France
      • James Garisch, South Africa
      • G. Hebbard, Australia
      • Beatriz Maria Iade Vergara, Uruguay
      • Masaki Kitajima, Japan
      • Tadahiko Kozu, Japan
      • Didier Lebrec, France
      • Geoffrey Metz, Australia
      • Luke O'Donnell, Ireland
      • A.A. Rani, Indonesia
      • Robert Summers, USA
      • Nurdan Tözün, Turkey
      • Naoky Tsai, USA
      • Miguel A Valdovinos, Mexico
      • Luiz Gonzaga Vaz Coelho, Brazil
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    • Outreach

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      • Team Leader: Prateek Sharma, USA
      • Project Team:
      • Robert Bailey, Canada
      • In-Sik Chung, Korea
      • Annuchit Chutaputti , Thailand
      • Lucas Greiner, Germany
      • Vassili Isakov, Russia
      • Leonid B. Lazebnik, Russia
      • Ismael Maguilnik, Brazil
      • Obedy Mwantembe, South Africa
      • Masao Omata, Japan
      • Francesco Paolo Rossini, Italy
      • Thein Saw, Myanmar
      • Wolff Schmiegel, Germany
      • Robin Teague, UK
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  • Editorial Board

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    • Editor in Chief: John Baillie, USA
    • Editorial Board members:
    • Jason Conway, USA
    • Suliman Fedail, Sudan
    • Peter R. Gibson, Australia
    • K.L. Goh, Malaysia
    • Mostafa Ibrahim, Egypt
    • A.G. Khan, Pakistan
    • Justus Krabshuis, France
    • Reza Malekzadeh, Iran
    • Klaus Mergener, USA
    • Munoz-Navas Miguel, Spain
    • Reddy Nageshwar, India
    • Thierry Ponchon, France
    • Roque Saenz, Chile
    • Max J. Schmulson, Mexico
    • Qi-Lian Zhang, China
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