20 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS OCTOBER 2017 Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG at ACG 2017 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events What do you know about the ‘Use and Abuse of Antibiotics in the Microbiota Era’? The second webinar of the ‘Microbiota Hard Talks – Live from Texas Medi-cal Center’ webinar series, “Use and Abuse of Antibiotics in the Microbiota Era” was broadcast live on Friday, 7th July, 2017 from the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. The webinar was presented by Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Labora-tory Medicine, Eli and Edythe Board Chair of Medicine, Chair of Research at the Division of Digestive Diseases and the Director of the IBD Research Center at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Professor Harry Pothoulakis, MD, PhD, of Los Angeles, California, USA. The live broadcast of the second we-binar had 2,697 live connections from all continents, which nearly doubled the number of live connections of the first webinar! The Asia Pacific region had the most live connections of the second webinar with 1,412; 1,330 of those live connections were from India alone. Pediatricians (30%), general practitioners (22%) and gastroenterol-ogists (13%) were the three most com-mon groups of healthcare professionals to view the second webinar. To begin the webinar, Prof. Pothou-lakis provided an overview of antibi-otics, which included mention of the global consumption of antibiotics, what constitutes misuse of antibiotics, and why antimicrobial resistance and its consequences represent the most important public health threat world-wide. Prof. Pothoulakis then transi-tioned to discuss the human microbi-ome. More specifically he detailed the effects and heavy disruption caused in the human microbiome by antibiotics, and the consequences of antibiotic use being the single most important risk factor for Clostridium difficile Infec-tion (CDI). Prof. Pothoulakis ended the lecture with mention that there is a lack of therapies available to treat CDI and why probiotics, alone or together with antibiotics, represent an attractive alternative therapy to treat the infection. If you missed the live broadcasts of the first (“Exploring the Hidden World of Human Gut Microbiota”) or this second webinar of the series, they are available for viewing on-demand. To view either webinar, please visit https://edge.media-server.com/m/s/ ezz7g8i2/p/pg6bwph9/lan/en. You must register for the webinar series, and once registered will gain access to either on-demand webinar by select-ing the title of the respective webinar highlighted in purple. At the end of each webinar, a Certificate of Partici-pation may be downloaded directly from the webinar player. The third webinar in the series “The Gut-Brain Connection: Can the Gut Control the Brain?” will broadcast live on Thursday, 16th November, 2017 at 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM (Houston Time, GMT-6:00) / 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM (GMT). The webinar will be presented by Dr. Luis Maria Bustos- Fernández, MD, of the Institute of Gastroenterology “Dr. Bustos Fernán-dez” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. About the Webinar Series ‘Microbiota Hard Talks – Live From Texas Medical Center’ webinar series is supported by an unrestricted medi-cal educational grant from Biocodex. The three part education webinar series aims to provide medical educa-tion in the field of the human gut microbiota. This interactive program, developed by Professors Henry Cohen (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Eamonn Quigley (Houston, U.S.A.), both former Presidents of WGO, offers the chance to join experts and like-mind-ed colleagues from around the globe on state-of-the-art microbiota topics. Each webinar features a presentation by a renowned lecturer and will in-clude time dedicated to an interactive question and answer session. For more information on the “Microbiota Hard Talks” webinar series, please visit the WGO Educa-tional Programs webpage, http://www. worldgastroenterology.org/education-and- training/educational-programs/ microbiota-hard-talks. The Asia Pacific region had the most live connections of the second webinar with 1,412; 1,330 of those live connections were from India alone. …antimicrobial resistance and its consequences represent the most important public health threat worldwide. Microbiota Hard Talks presenter, Prof. Pothou-lakis, and Program Director, Prof. Quigley, during the second webinar
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