Japan Digestive Disease Week 2015 (JDDW 2015) - Hajime Takikawa, MD, PhD

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38 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JANUARY 2016 Gastro 2015: AGW-WGO | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Japan Digestive Disease Week 2015 (JDDW 2015) Hajime Takikawa, MD, PhD Dean Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine Teikyo University School of Medicine Chairman of the Steering Committee, JDDW2015 Tokyo, Japan The 23rd Japan Digestive Disease Week (JDDW) was held at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa and Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa in Tokyo, Japan from 8 -11 October 2015. JDDW is one of the larg-est gastroenterological conventions in the world, drawing more than 20,000 participants annually, and is organized jointly by four member societies, namely the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE), the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES), the Japan Society of Hepatology (JSH), and the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (JSGS), plus the Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Cancer Screening (JSGCS). There were 21,534 participants with 2,962 papers presented at this meet-ing: 722 for topic sessions (symposia, panel discussions, and workshops) and 2,240 for electronic poster ses-sions. Taking advantage of the mem-ber societies involved, an Integrated ency in clinical research in line with the ethical guidelines that had been revised in 2015. The Committee for Women Physi-cians and Researchers of Gastroenter-ology in Japan, one of the JDDW’s extraordinary committees, had its own program for encouraging women physicians and researchers to play an active role in gastroenterology. A new “Medical Staff Program” started this year. Medical treatment should involve not only physicians, but also medical staff from differ-ent professions, including nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, clinical laboratory technicians, and radiologi-cal Program was designed to enhance cross-talk between subspecialty societ-ies, with six sessions focusing on the latest themes. We also had a “Seminar on Medical Issues” entitled “Towards clinical research in the future - A new stage” where social issues concerning medico-pharmaceutical relationships were discussed. Through the experts’ discussion, this seminar guided us in enhancing fairness and transpar- The sign of JDDW 2015 outside the venue. technologists, working as a team. This type of program was uncommon in past conventional academic confer-ences, and we hope it provided medi-cal staff and doctors with exciting opportunities for promoting better patient care. An educational lecture was held in-dependently all day Sunday, 11 Octo-ber, and 4,658 members participated. We included the newest knowledge in each field of gastroenterology. The topics were: “Diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori gastritis,” “Di-agnostic and therapeutic endoscopic approaches for colorectal tumors,” “New developments in hepatitis C treatment,” “Clinical practice guide-lines for pNET,” “On the cutting edge of treatment strategies for cholangio-carcinoma,” “What gastroenterologists need to know about pathology,” “Hot topics in intestinal bacteria,” and “Current status of bariatric surgery.” Special considerations were made in order to accelerate the efforts to become an international meeting. We had eight international sessions, all of which were conducted in English: three symposia, “Hepatocellular carcinoma: Molecular approaches for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy,”


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