Digestive Health Day Research Articles

World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines: Diet and the Gut.

World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines: Diet and the Gut.

World Digestive Health Day - WDHD Poland 2017 Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - Challenges and Hopes.

World Digestive Health Day - WDHD Poland 2017 Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - Challenges and Hopes.

World Digestive Health Day Around the World!

World Digestive Health Day Around the World!

"We are what our bacteria eat": The role of bacteria in personalizing nutrition therapy in gastrointestinal conditions.

The theme for the 2016 World Digestive Health Day is "Your Diet and Gut Health". The World Gastroenterology Organization thereby wishes to raise awareness of the relationship between what we eat and gastrointestinal symptoms. World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) is celebrated each year on May 29. This brief review article on behalf of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology will highlight recent developments in this highly active area of research with a special emphasis on gastrointestinal disorders.

World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines: GERD Global Perspective on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.

PROBIOTICS—THE CONCEPTHistory and DefinitionsA century ago, Elie Metchnikoff (a Russian scientist, Nobel laureate, and professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris) postulated that lactic acid bacteria (LAB) offered health benefits capable of promoting longevity. He suggested that “intestinal autoint

World Digestive Health Day Around the World!

World Digestive Health Day Around the World!

World Digestive Health Day 2013

World Digestive Health Day 2013

Proyectos de apoyo a la gastroenterología desde la Organización Mundial de Gastroenterología

The World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO; OMGE) is a federation of more than 100 national gastroenterology societies and four regional gastroenterology associations representing 50,000 individuals. This organization aims to promote knowledge of the global prevalence of digestive diseases among health professionals and the general public and to promote high-quality, accessible and independent health education and training programs, especially in emerging societies. The educational initiatives of the WGO include 15 Training Centers; Train the Trainers Workshops; an Outreach Program that facilitates the supply of equipment and materials; World Digestive Health Day; Global Guidelines with Cascade methodology, which is unique among guidelines; and the World Congress of Gastroenterology. The WGO Foundation is a philanthropic body dedicated to raising the funds required to support the ongoing WGO education initiatives and activities.

World Digestive Health Day 2012

World Digestive Health Day 2012

New WGO Leadership

New WGO Leadership

WGO Training Center News

MEXICO CITY By: Miguel A. Valdovinos, MD The Mexico Training Center had an exciting and fruitful ending to 2011. Five gastroenterologists from Mexico and South America were trained in their center: Erik Toro Monjarraz, MD, from Mexico, Gastrointestinal Motility; Luis Enrique Salinas, MD, from Mexico, Gastrointestinal Motility; Belem Torres Guerrero, MD, from Venezuela, Gastrointestinal Motility; Carlos Salgar, MD, from Colombia, Gastrointestinal Motility; and Epigmenio García Correa, MD, from Mexico, Endoscopic Ultrasound. Several workshops and a postgraduate course were held at the training center. This included a hands-on course on Portal Hypertension, where attendees learned the indication and techniques of hepatic hemodynamics and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, a workshop on inflammatory bowel disease in which attendees learned pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and a postgraduate course on new technologies for diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. During the postgraduate course, 600 attendees learned new techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of common and rare GI disorders. International faculty from the United States, Spain, and Brazil collaborated in this course. On May 13, 2011, the training center celebrated World Digestive Health Day with a clinical symposium on Enteric Infections, Clean Water, Clean Food, Clean Environment. Prof. Henry Cohen, World Gastroenterology Organization President, Uruguay; Prof. Christine Surawicz, Washington University, Seattle; and Prof. Francisco Guarner, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, along with several local investigators, participated in lectures on epidemiology, prevention and treatment of water-borne and food-borne infections, traveler diarrhea, and the role of human microbioma in health and disease. A total of 600 GIs, internists, and general practitioners attended this important symposium. SANTIAGO TRAINING CENTER By: Dr Roque Saenz, MD and Claudio Navarrete, MD The Santiago Training Center also had a busy and exciting second half to 2011, with approximately 10 trainees every 4 months in the different programs. The center has been busy planning the next International Course on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy which will take place next month. A workshop is also being planned in 2013, which corresponds with a workshop with live cases. Several staff members of the center acted as lecturers in various Gastroenterological meetings and events in the Latin American region, including Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Peru, and Chile; and Dr. Roque Saenz served as a faculty during the Train the Trainers in Porto Alegre, Brazil. A weekly online international meeting on endoscopic ultrasound takes place every Wednesday afternoon in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia. An “ALUMNI” association from the training center has been created, and it includes extrainee leaders such as Dr Jorge Isaguirre and Dr Asadur Tchekmedyian. Dr Franco Orellana, an alumni from their unit, recently participated in Dr Shimizu’s training in Fukuoka, Japan, and is lecturing on his experience. Next year Dr Jaquelina Gobelet, a staff member of the center, is traveling to Japan for training as well. The Santiago Training Center continues to be very active and will continue to share news throughout the year. ROME TRAINING CENTER By: Guido Costamagna, MD The World Gastroenterology Organization Training Center in Rome, the European Endoscopy Training Centre, led by its Director, Prof. Guido Costamagna, is a comprehensive center fully devoted to teaching and training in digestive endoscopy. Over 130 trainees have successfully completed the short or long training courses in their unit since early 1992 which has included participants from all over the world, especially Italy, India, United States, and Japan. The aim of the education program is to focus on practical training. The large number of procedures carried out by Prof. G. Costamagna’s staff provides the opportunity for personalizing the program, especially given the possibility of training on computerized Olympus simulators and practicing various endoscopic procedures on ex-vivo models. In addition, they provide the Advanced Endoscopy Intensive Course with a tutor, a week-long program during which the trainee follows all the procedures and has personalized theory lessons with his/her tutor. The center has many future hands-on courses, including an Advanced Course on Polypectomy and Mucosectomy; Advanced Course on Enteroscopy; Advanced Course on Biliopancreatic Endoscopy; Advanced Course on Videocapsule Endoscopy, Barrx Academia Training Program; Advanced Course on GI bleeding; Advanced Course on Endoscopic Ultrasound, along with hands-on courses for nurses such as Advanced Course on Polypectomy and Mucosectomy Endoscopy; Advanced Course on Biliopancreatic Endoscopy; and Advanced Course on GI bleeding. The Rome Center is pleased to announce that the annual “XIV European Workshop on Therapeutic Digestive Endoscopy and Radiology—Live Video Demonstrations” (Endo Live Roma 2012) will take place in their unit this April 12 to 13, 2012.

WGO – Rome Foundation Joint Symposium Summary

Gastroenterologists throughout the world have long recognized the high prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among their patient populations and the challenges that the assessment and management of this disorder pose. However, a quick scan of the literature would suggest that IBS is a predominantly Western disorder and that studies of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to IBS are the almost exclusive preserve of clinician-investigators in Europe and North America. To “set the record straight” and, in doing so, to identify and attempt to address the additional challenges that IBS, as a truly global entity, presents, the Rome Foundation and the World Gastroenterology Organisation jointly organized an international symposium on “IBS—The Global Perspective” in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 6 and 7, 2011. For WGO, this symposium represented a logical extension of its earlier activities in this area, the IBS Global Guideline (www.worldgastroenterology.org/irritable-bowel-syndrome. html), the WGO IBS Task Force and symposium presented at Gastro 2009 in London and the various activities and publications related to World Digestive Health Day 2009 (http://www.worldgastroenterology.org/wdhd-2009.html). The symposium set out to address two related issues: 1. To begin to draw a global picture of IBS. Although IBS and all functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) seem to have high prevalence rates throughout the world, many questions remain unanswered. Firstly, the world map of IBS still shows many blank spaces where prevalence data either do not exist or are fragmentary. Secondly, the potential for those interested in IBS around the world to learn from cultural and ethnic group similarities and differences relating to such factors as prevalence, genetics, environmental factors, symptom reporting, gender distribution, pathophysiology, diagnostic workup, management, treatment approaches, patient adherence to treatments, and clinical outcome, remains largely untapped. 2. To address the importance of the development of crosscultural clinical and research competencies. Crosscultural clinical competence relates to the ability of health care providers to function optimally in the multicultural background of patients in many medical practices. Patterns of migration across and between continents now expose clinicians to a more diverse patient population drawn from different linguistic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Yet, as medical students and trainees, we receive little or no instruction in the clinical approach to such patients when they present with a disorder, such as IBS, which is so encumbered by psychosocial dimensions. Cross-cultural research competence relates to the skills required to conduct research involving population subgroups of differing cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

WGO's World Digestive Health Day

WGO's World Digestive Health Day

World Digestive Health Day

World Digestive Health Day

IBD Around the world: Comparing the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment

Every May 29th the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) celebrates World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) and initiates a worldwide public health campaign through its 110 national societies and 50,000 members. Each year focuses on a particular digestive disorder in order to increase general public awareness of prevention and therapy. 2010 is dedicated to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Upon this occasion a WGO IBD task force was compiled from leading international specialists and researchers. The task force also included members of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Diseases (IOIBD) and the European Crohn's and Colitis Organization (ECCO) of the United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEGF). The goal of the task force was to bring together IBD specialists from around the world to discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of IBD within different regions. This is a summary of the WGO task force meeting at the American Gastroenterological Association's (AGA) Digestive Disease Week, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May, 2010. The expert panel identified the most pressing issues in IBD worldwide: reliable epidemiological data, global collaboration in clinical and basic research, the approach to distinguishing intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn's disease, access to specialist care and access to the latest diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Digestive health campaign launched

In supportM of World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) on 29 May 2008 the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) launched a year−long campaign titled ′Optimum Health and Nutrition′ focusing on the link between nutrition and digestive health. The initiative is part of a three−year partnership between WGO and the company Danone to raise awareness of digestive disorders.