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41 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 Nairobi Training Center opening ceremony. Ribbon cutting ceremony for launch of the program involved deductive lectures, 20 live transmissions, and hands-on training on basic and advanced upper GI endoscopy, colonoscopy, endo-scopic ultrasound, and ERCP. The deductive lectures covered common clinical conditions in hepatology, pan-creatobiliary, acid related disorders, and liver transplant. Nairobi Training Center. The delegates and faculty were very happy with the organization of the meeting, time discipline, the selection of topics, the high standard of the presentations, and the case choices for the live transmission. All three days registered an almost full house, demonstrating the delegates’ eagerness to learn. However, there is room to improve on quality of transmissions for future events. The workshop was highly rated, such that Professor Reddy and Dr. Maydeo announced that they will team up with the WGO Nairobi Training Center, in conjunction with the Gastroenterology Society of Kenya, to launch an international annual training workshop in Nairobi for Africa. We have trainings in ERCP in prog-ress and will soon unveil our training program calendar for 2016 for basic endoscopy. We are also working on a curriculum for a two-year fellow-ship program in gastroenterology in collaboration with the University of Nairobi come 2017.


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