28 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Upcoming WDHD Events & Celebrations “Our Diet on Gut Health” Awareness Campaign When: 29 May – 29 August 2016 Location: Mayfair Lagoon Address: Jaydev Vihar, Bhubaneswar 751013, India Organizers: Kalinga Gastroenterol-ogy Foundation & Odisha Chapter of ISG Phone: +919437578857 E-mail: kal_gas_foundation@hotmail. com Website: http://www.kgf.ind.in/ Dietary Habits, Obesity and other Disorders. How Could We Get Here? - Prof. Julio Montero When: 14 July 2016 Location: Hospital de Clínicas, Gastroenterology Department ; Prof. H. Cohen Address: 2870, Italia Av. Floor 4, Montevideo, Uruguay Organizers: Gastroenterology Depart-ment of the National Medical School, Prof. H. Cohen, Hospital de Clínicas Phone: 2480 84 72 Fax: 2480 84 72 E-mail: secgastroenterologia@yahoo. com.ar Website: http://www.gastro.hc.edu.uy Individual and Collective Strategies in Prevention and Treatment of Obesity. Round of Cases - Prof. Julio Montero When: 14 July 2016 Location: Hospital de Clínicas, Gastroenterology Department; Prof. H. Cohen Address: 2870 Italia Av. Floor 4, Gas-troenterology Department Organizers: Gastroenterology Depart-ment of the National Medical School, Prof. H. Cohen, Hospital de Clínicas Phone: 2480 84 72 Fax: 2480 84 72 E-mail: secgastroenterologia@yahoo. com.ar Website: http://www.gastro.hc.edu.uy 2016 RISE Revolution Cycle When: 17-18 September 2016 Location: Collingwood, ON Organizer: Canadian Digestive Health Foundation Website: www.CDHF.ca/RISE Discover the World Within - Understanding How the Human Gut Microbiota Impacts Lifelong Health - Canada When: 7 November 2016 Location: Design Exchange Address: 234 Bay Street, Canada Organizer: Canadian Digestive Health Foundation Website: http://www.eventbrite. ca/e/discover-the-world-within-tick-ets- 21306936621 PLAN YOUR OWN WDHD EVENT WGO encourage all members to participate in World Digestive Health Day 2016 by arranging events in their regions to commemorate this day. We hope that this year’s campaign will help increase awareness on ways to promote gut health. Have you started planning your event? While the official date of WDHD is May 29, many events take place throughout 2016. Past events include public campaigns, courses and lectures on treatments of the cur-rent theme, marathons, walkathons, national meetings, press conferences, television and radio interviews, creat-ing a country’s own WDHD Day, publications, and much more. You may find a variety of tools and resources which benefit your physi-cians, other health care professionals, patients, and the general public, by visiting www.worldgastroenterol-ogy. org/wgo-foundation/wdhd/ wdhd-2016. For questions regarding WDHD, please email info@worldgas-troenterology. org. Please also visit the www.worldgas-troenterology. org/wgo-foundation/ wdhd/wdhd-2016/submit-wdhd- 2016-event to officially submit your event for inclusion on the calendar and to request a copy of the 2016 WDHD logo for your use in promot-ing this year’s WDHD campaign: “Diet and the Gut.”
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