While IBD was predominately a disease of developed countries from the middle of the twentieth century, in recent years there have been rising incidence rates in developing countries. During 2010 WGO wishes to underscore the emergence and complexities of IBD to doctors in developed and developing countries. Our focus is on optimizing diagnostic approaches and maximizing patient care to enhance the quality of life of IBD patients and to help inform their health care providers worldwide.

Considering the significant social impact of IBD on a global scale and the lack of knowledge about IBD in developing countries, WGO focuses the attention of the international gastroenterology community on May 29, 2010, and throughout 2010, on IBD.

» Read more about WDHD 2010

In preparation of 2010: Year of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, WGO would like to provide its membership the first WDHD 2010 tool: a review article on influenza A (H1N1) virus in patients with IBD.

» Read Article

World Digestive Health Day 2009: Don’t forget that WDHD 2009 activities continue throughout the year and every month on the WGO website a global IBS expert highlights a “gold standard” article on IBS with a direct link to the source. » See the latest Monthly Research Review

WGO will organize its quadrennial World Congress of Gastroenterology in conjunction with GASTRO 2009 in London, 21-25 November, 2009. We are pleased to invite you to meet us at the WGO booth, located in the registration area. The WGO booth is designed to serve as a meeting point for all GASTRO 2009 visitors. We wish to provide an inviting location where WGO leaders meet the membership during the special “Meet Your WGO Leader” sessions and all interested can find out about the various possibilities of becoming involved in WGO’s educational activities.

Pick up the updated schedule of ”Meet Your WGO Leader” at the WGO booth and find out when you can personally meet some of the members of the WGO and WGO Foundation board.

2009: Year of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Culminates in a Special IBS Task Force Symposium at GASTRO 2009

Don’t miss the WDHD 2009 IBS Task Force Symposium at GASTRO 2009 ”New Horizons in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: developments in pathogenesis and a report from the WGO IBS Task Force”.

Speakers:

	Dr. Francisco Guarner (Barcelona): the Gut Microbiota in IBS.
	Dr. Giovanni Barbara (Bologna): IBS; an Inflammatory Disorder?
	Dr. Eamonn Quigley (Cork): A Global Perspective in IBS; the report of the WGO Task Force.

Date: Sunday November 22, 2009
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Venue: N7/8

The work of the WGO Task Force has been made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Procter & Gamble.

» Read more about the IBS Task Force Symposium at GASTRO 2009

The latest edition of the World Gastroenterology News (WGN) is now available on the WGO website as an e-book and as an easily printable PDF. WGO is proud to present one of this year’s most impressive scientific articles: The Serrated Pathway to Colorectal Cancer by Profs. Lambert, O’Brien, Jaramillo and Vieth. Together with the scientific content, we have also given a special focus to GASTRO 2009 with an overview of the GASTRO 2009 Working Party reports and the WGO Program tips for GASTRO 2009.

» Access WGN online

To address a common problem among gastroenterologists, the lack of pedagogic training, WGO Train the Trainers workshops offer intensive and interactive 4 day sessions dedicated to the development of teaching and training skills. The TTT workshop in Santiago, Chile, was a result of the close cooperation between the Chilean and Argentinean GI societies, the AGA and the WGO. Participants from all over the world praised this latest TTT for having a long-lasting impact on their professional development as not only doctors, but as teachers. The WGO Training Center in Santiago hosted the TTT and generously devoted time and resources to ensure the smooth transition from general sessions to break out sessions in small groups. The skilled faculty which comprised of the world’s top gastroenterologists, including the WGO president, Eamonn Quigley, interacted continuously with the TTT participants. This close cooperation ensured putting into practice the WGO TTT goal to improve the education and training standards of those who care for patients with digestive disorders.

» Read more comments about the TTT Santiago on the WGO website

The Virtual Room of Gastroenterology (VRG), a comprehensive information platform for gastroenterologists, is a joint effort between WGO and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the National University of La Plata, Argentina. This new feature is easily accessible from the WGO website, is based on the PubMed platform and can capture and store search strategies as web addresses. Based on these embedded search strategies, a medical library has been created. Thanks to the enormous efforts of Prof. Dr. Osvaldo M. Spinelli (UNLP, Argentina), Prof. Dr. Eduardo Henderson (UDELAR, Uruguay) and WGO’s in-house information expert Justus Krabshuis, customized searches are now possible for 28 topics such as Celiac Disease, Liver Cirrhosis, Gallstone Disease, Colorectal Neoplasms, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors and Barrett’s Esophagus, which all complement WGO’s 21 Global Guidelines. The Virtual Room of Gastroenterology includes a Spanish version of the site and in the future Cascade search strategies for each guideline topic, allowing a search for alternative, resource sensitive solutions for the diagnosis and management of digestive diseases will also be added to the special VRG services.

» Visit the WGO Global Guidelines library and access VRG

In collaboration with Touch Briefings, WGO is pleased to provide members free access to the latest edition of the review journal European Gastroenterology & Hepatology Review – Volume 5, Issue 1. This issue focuses on the issues and treatments in the area of hepatitis, ulcerative colitis and other diseases in hepato-gastroenterology.

» Access European Gastroenterology and Hepatology Review Volume 5, Issue 1

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