Program overview
The World Congress of Gastroenterology in Bangkok, Thailand is truly a special event.
The Scientific Programme is phenomenal. In this regard, the World Congress
is truly unique. It alone provides the delegate non-stop, dawn to dusk
reviews of everything that is important in gastroenterology today. The
Scientific Programme includes 107 symposia, 12 quadrennial reviews, 33
state-of-the-art lectures, 17 interactive sessions with over 400 distinguished
lecturers invited from all of the world. To spice things up several formats
are used to present the very latest information on everything from helicobacter
to hepatocellular carcinoma, from haemorrhoids to hilar tumors.
The attendees can move from a state-of-the-art lecture by Hanauer on IBD,
to a symposium on Barrett's where Spechler, Weinstein, Wright and De Meester
discuss the latest on surveillance and management and then on to an interactive
session where Frakes tests the mettle of Sohendra, Haber and Nathanson
with challenging cases of biliary strictures. One can hear the differing
global experiences with diseases such as oesophageal caner and IBD in
the East meets West debates. As always, the Quadrennial reviews and working
party reports are most eagerly awaited.
This time, for the first time, the scientific programme has been put together by the Scientific Programme Committee chaired by Dr. Anuchit Chutaputti, not only with the involvement of OMGE and OMED, but with the active participation of the International Council for Surgical Gastroenterology, which represents all of the major GI surgical societies. On Thursday, they will present a Day of Surgery.
SIGNEA will join us again and have assembled a most comprehensive programme over three days.
There are several special educational events. The Bangkok conference marks the tenth occasion in which OMED will participate in the congress. This is marked with an endoscopic extravaganza that brings the audience around the world into the endoscopy suites of the experts performing the toughest cases using the latest techniques.
This congress also represents the first collaboration with APAGE, who have merged their 2002 congress with the WCOG. APAGE will present a special course on Viral Hepatitis and Gastric Cancer in the Molecular Age.
The World Congress happens but once every four years. This time around the educational program is again outstanding.
