WGO Committees
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Executive Committee
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- President: Henry Cohen, Uruguay
- Past President: Richard Kozarek, USA
- Vice President: KL Goh, Malaysia
- Secretary General: Cihan Yurdaydin, Turkey
- Treasurer: David Bjorkman, USA
- Co-Ordinator Education and Training: James Toouli, Australia
- Guidelines & Publications Chair: Michael Fried, Switzerland
- Chairman WGO Foundation (ex officio): Eamonn Quigley, Ireland
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WGN Editorial Board
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- Todd Baron, USA
- Jason Conway, USA
- Rodolfo Corti, Argentina
- Michael Fried, Switzerland
- Paul Goldberg, South Africa
- Abdel-Meguid Kassem, Egypt
- Rene Lambert, France
- Joseph Lau, China, Hong Kong
- Chun-Yen Lin, Taiwan
- Klaus Mergener, USA
- Douglas Rex, USA
- Max Schmulson, Mexico
- Nicholas Shaheen, USA
- Parul Shukla, India
- Martin Smith, South Africa
- Wendy Spearman, South Africa
- Nick Talley, USA
- Pier-Alberto Testoni , Italy
- Mamoru Watanabe, Japan
- Bader Fayaz Zuberi, Pakistana
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Finance Committee
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- Committee Chair: David Bjorkman, USA
- Committee members:
- Wolfgang Fleig, Germany
- Lisa Gangarosa, USA
- Toshifumi Hibi, Japan
- Zeljko Krznaric, Croatia
- Douglas LaBrecque, USA
- Patricia S. Latham, USA
- Herbie Schneider, South Africa
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Global Guidelines and Publications
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- Committee Chair: Michael Fried, Switzerland
- Core Group:
- Andre Elewaut, Belgium
- Rami Eliakim, Israel
- Suliman Fedail, Sudan
- Francisco Guarner, Spain
- Richard Hunt, Canada
- Aamir Ghafoor Khan, Pakistan
- Justus Krabshuis (ex-offico), France
- Angel Lanas, Spain
- Greger Lindberg, Sweden
- Roque Saenz, Chile
- Members:
- Zaigham Abbas, Pakistan
- Bandar Al Knawy, Saudi Arabia
- Julio Bai, Argentina
- Murray Barclay, New Zealand
- Rosa Bektayeva, Kazakhstan
- Najet Bel Hadj , Tunisia
- Julio Carri, Argentina
- Peter Ferenci, Austria
- Khean-Lee Goh, Malaysia
- Nalini Guda,USA
- Saeed S. Hamid, Pakistan
- Michio Imawari, Japan
- Vassili Isakov, Russia
- Igor Khalif, Russia
- D. Lavanchy, Switzerland, WHO
- Igor Maev, Russia
- Juan-R. Malagelada, Spain
- Peter Malfertheiner, Germany
- Joaquim Prado Moraes Filho, Brazil
- Manuel Mojica Pernaranda, Colombia
- Skerdi Prifti, Albania
- Graciela Salis, Argentina
- Davos Stimac, Croatia
- Kentaro Sugano, Japan
- Rakesh Tandon, India
- Alan Thomson, Canada
- Alexander Trukhmanov, Russia
- Muhammad Umar, Pakistan
- Phillipe van Hootegem, Belgium
- Benjamin C. Wong, China
- Graeme Young, Australia
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Nominations Committee
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- Committee Chair: Richard Kozarek, USA
- Committee members:
- Naima Amrani, Morocco
- Yukata Atomi, Japan
- Deepak Kumar Bhasin, India
- Suliman Fedail, Sudan
- Peter Ferenci, Austria
- Kwong Ming Fock, Singapore
- Elena Fosman, Uruguay
- Vladimir Ivashkin, Russia
- Chung Owyang, USA
- Shiv Kumar Sarin, India
- Zeyad Sharaiha, Jordan
- Philip van Hootegem, Belgium
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Core Education & Training Committee
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- Chair: James Toouli, Australia
- Team Leader Training Centers: Des Leddin, Canada
- Team Leader TTT: Damon Bizos, South Africa
- Team Leader Scientific Programs: Naima Amrani, Morocco
- Team Leader Research Methodology: Richard Fedorak, Canada
- Team Leader Outreach Program: Prateek Sharma, USA
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Training Centers
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- Team Leader: Des Leddin, Canada
- Coordinator E-Learning Network: Shuji Shimizu, Japan
- Coordinator E-Learning Network: Sandie Thomson, South Africa
- Members:
- Reid Ally, South Africa
- Naima Amrani, Morocco
- Nestor Chopita, Argentina
- Guido Costamagna, Italy
- Wasim Jafri, Pakistan
- Joji Malani, Fiji
- Sathaporn Manatsathit, Thailand
- Ibrahim Mostafa, Egypt
- Claudio Navarrete, Chile
- Luis Sabbagh, Colombia
- Roque Saenz, Chile
- Miguel Valdovinos, Mexico
- Guido Villa Gomez Roig, Bolivia
- Other Representatives:
- Surgery Interest Group Rep.: Damon Bizos, South Africa
- Hepatology Interest Group Rep.: Douglas La Brecque, USA
- Endoscopy Interest Group Rep.: Grace Elta, USA
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Train the Trainers
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- Team Leader: Damon Bizos, Australia
- Core Group:
- David Bjorkman, USA
- Geoffrey Metz, Australia
- Eamonn Quigley, Ireland
- Onno Terpstra, Netherlands
- Team Members:
- Simon Bar-Meir, Israel
- Thomas Cherukara, United Arab Emirates
- Gourdas Choudhuri, India
- Henry Cohen, Uruguay
- Jack Di Palma, USA
- Jaime Natan Eisig, Brazil
- Amy Foxx-Orenstein, USA
- Abdel-Meguid Kassem, Egypt
- Douglas LaBrecque, USA
- Guilherme Macedo, Portugal
- John Marshall, Canada
- Ian Norton, Australia
- K.R. Palaniswamy, India
- Gianluca Rotondano, Italy
- Roque Saenz, Chile
- Laurence Schiller, USA
- Davor Stimac, Croatia
- Sandie Thomson, South Africa
- Boris Vucelic, Croatia
- Ian Wallace, New Zealand
- David H. Zagalsky, Argentina
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Scientific Programmes
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- Team Leader: Naima Amrani, Morocco
- Team Members:
- Henry Binder, USA
- Damon Bizos, South Africa
- Sedat Boyacioglu, Turkey
- Elena Fosman, Uruguay
- Lucas Greiner, Germany
- Amer Khatib, Jordan
- Jaw Town Lin, Taiwan, China
- Reza Malekzadeh, Iran
- Suzanna Ono-Nita, Brazil
- Joaquim Prado Moraes Filho, Brazil
- Jaroslaw Regula, Poland
- Gerhard Rogler, Switzerland
- Thomas Seufferlein, Germany
- Jose D. Sollano, Philippines
- Zsolt Tulassay, Hungary
- Mohammed Umar, Pakistan
- Boris Vucelic, Croatia
- Wei-cheng You, China
- Miroslav Zavoral, Czech Republic
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Research Methodology
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- Team Leader: Richard N. Fedorak, Canada
- Project Team:
- Fernando Azpiroz, Spain
- Hasnain Ali Shah, Pakistan
- Nicola Jones, Canada
- John Karagiannis, Greece
- Carolina Olano, Uruguay
- Masao Omata, Japan
- Nicholas Shaheen, USA
- Nick Talley, USA
- Masao Tanaka, Japan
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Outreach
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- Team Leader: Prateek Sharma, USA
- Project Team:
- Ronald Bridges, Canada
- Tsutomu Chiba, Japan
- Lucy Dagher, Venezuela
- Gamal Esmat, Egypt
- Kwong Ming Fock, Singapore
- Lucas Greiner, Germany
- Maribel Lizarabal, Venezuela
- Finlay Macrae, Australia
- Ricardo Morgenstern, USA
- Chris Mulder, Netherlands
- Negashwar Reddy, India
- Juan Francisco J.Rivera Ramos, Mexico
- Khawaja Qamaruddin Sediqi, Afghanistan
- Hisao Tajiri, Japan
- Daniel Taullard, Uruguay
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WGO Divisions/Interest Groups
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Interest Group Heads
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- Endoscopy Interest Group Head: Grace Elta, USA
- Surgery Interest Group Head: Damon Bizos, South Africa
- Hepatology Interest Group Head: Douglas LaBrecque, USA
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Endoscopy Interest Group
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- Group Members:
- Lars Aabakken, Norway
- Evgeny Fedorov, Russia
- Ian Gan, USA
- Ricardo Morgenstern, USA
- Ibrahim Mostafa, Egypt
- Ian Norton, Australia
- Assad Soweid, Lebanon
- Mark Topazian, USA
- Hironori Yamamoto, Japan
- Carlos Zapata, Peru
- Li Zhao-Shen, China
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Surgery Interest Group
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- Group Members:
- Jacques Belghiti, France
- Paul Goldberg, South Africa
- Dirk Gouma, Netherlands
- Joseph Lau, Hong Kong, China
- Lars Lundell, Sweden
- Shuji Shimizu, Japan
- Masao Tanaka, Japan
- Sandie Thomson, South Africa
- James Toouli, Australia
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Hepatology
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- Group Members:
- Thomas Cherukara, United Arab Emirates
- Henry Cohen, Uruguay
- Gamal Esmat, Egypt
- Peter Ferenci, Austria
- Wolfgang Fleig, Germany
- Lucas Greiner, Germany
- Saeed Hamid, Pakistan
- Aamir Ghafoor Khan, Pakistan
- Susanne Lopes, Portugal
- Godfrey Lule, Kenya
- Marina Maevskaya, Russia
- Guilherme Macedo, Portugal
- Thomas M. Mutie, Kenya
- Juan Francisco Rivera Ramos, Mexico
- Shiv Kumar Sarin, India
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