World Gastroenterology Organisation

WGO Member Societies

WGO consists of over 100 Member Societies - this represents over 60,000 individual practitioners worldwide.

Meet the Leadership

Professor
Geoffrey Metz
President
Australia

Professor
Carolina Olano
President-Elect
Uruguay

Professor
Vivek Kaul
Secretary General
USA

Professor
Kaichun Wu
Treasurer
China

Professor
Guilherme Macedo
Past-President
Portugal

Professor
Dan Dumitrascu
Director At-Large
Romania

Education & Training

Education and Training represents a core primary program for WGO. We aim to create a global education network to maximize resources and training efficiency. WGO strives to promote gastrointestinal education worldwide and provide access to state-of-the-art training opportunities around the globe.

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President’s
Message

Dear all,
I would like firstly to acknowledge my predecessor Professor Guilherme Macedo for his outstanding achievements as President of WGO over the past two years. I have known Guilherme for nearly 20 years as a great physician, endoscopist, teacher and researcher, but also as a great leader who has achieved so much for his hospital, his university, his community, his national gastroenterology organization and, most recently, for world gastroenterology.

The WGO Guidelines and Global Cascades Library contains practice guidelines written from a viewpoint of global applicability. WGO Guidelines are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin, and Russian. While each guideline includes references to other relevant guidelines, WGO is the only organization who has adopted a global focus. Cascade-based WGO guidelines offer different options for diagnosis and treatment depending on the available resources.

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Meetings
& Events

The Meetings & Events section contains notices about the most important meetings by our member societies taking place around the world. As a federation of 119 societies, WGO is committed to sharing and promoting a wide variety of meetings that may attract both regional and global interest.

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