WGO Committees
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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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