Dear members of Scientific Societies of the continent, affiliated to the Pan American Organization of Gastroenterology (OPGE):
We welcome you to the long-awaited relaunch of @americas, our newsletter where we communicate national and international initiatives related to gastroenterology in our American continent. The COVID 19 pandemic distanced us in various aspects of family, work and corporate life, and in this context, OPGE’s activities were no exception.
The management of Uruguay was affected, delaying our congress, which was held virtually with great attendance and participation from the industry, with an exceptional academic-scientific level, for which I take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Eduardo Gutiérrez and his directors, since despite the difficulties, they managed to carry out the activities of OPGE, with a transfer of command that allows us from Chile to continue with the development of our beloved OPGE.
One of the initiatives that we want to reactivate is the dissemination and contact with national scientific societies, in which we have been present virtually since 2021 and now we resume participation in national congresses that will be held in person, starting with the this year’s DDW, with a section on “The Best of DDW in Spanish.” In addition, we will have our assembly of OPGE Presidents in person, generating a reunion with old and new friends, which will enhance during the 2021-2023 period those teaching, research and dissemination activities, as well as significant camaraderie.
All this will be crowned by the Pan American Week of Digestive Diseases (SPED) together with the Inter-American Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED) in the city of Santiago de Chile, from October 8 to 11, 2023, after having agreed on a change of SPED regulation that grants equal treatment to OPGE and SIED, reflecting a genuine interest in developing gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy in the continent, in a climate of mutual respect between these organizations.
The newsletter, @americas, we hope will be a communication channel for the main national activities, the presence of OPGE-SIED symposia in the activities of each member country, as well as OPGE’s participation in international events, including DDW (American Congress), UEG (European Congress) and WGO (World Congress).
We hope that the relaunch of @americas will enhance the reunion of gastroenterologists from the continent with the activities that are being carried out at the different levels already described, to favor the active participation of all of you in what we hope will be the “beginning of the end of the COVID 19 pandemic” in a gradual process from Uruguay to Peru, with the recent election of Lima, as the headquarters of SPED 2025, and of Dr. Alejandro Piscoya, as President-elect for the period 2023-2025.
Warm greetings
Dr. Arnoldo Riquelme (Chile)
OPGE President
Dr. Pablo Cortes (Chile)
OPGE Vice President
Dr. Edgardo Smecuol (Argentina)
Honorary Executive Secretary OPGE
Editorial May 2022 – Welcome @Americas
Dear members of Scientific Societies of the continent, affiliated to the Pan American Organization of Gastroenterology (OPGE):
We welcome you to the long-awaited relaunch of @americas, our newsletter where we communicate national and international initiatives related to gastroenterology in our American continent. The COVID 19 pandemic distanced us in various aspects of family, work and corporate life, and in this context, OPGE’s activities were no exception.
The management of Uruguay was affected, delaying our congress, which was held virtually with great attendance and participation from the industry, with an exceptional academic-scientific level, for which I take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Eduardo Gutiérrez and his directors, since despite the difficulties, they managed to carry out the activities of OPGE, with a transfer of command that allows us from Chile to continue with the development of our beloved OPGE.
One of the initiatives that we want to reactivate is the dissemination and contact with national scientific societies, in which we have been present virtually since 2021 and now we resume participation in national congresses that will be held in person, starting with the this year’s DDW, with a section on “The Best of DDW in Spanish.” In addition, we will have our assembly of OPGE Presidents in person, generating a reunion with old and new friends, which will enhance during the 2021-2023 period those teaching, research and dissemination activities, as well as significant camaraderie.
All this will be crowned by the Pan American Week of Digestive Diseases (SPED) together with the Inter-American Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED) in the city of Santiago de Chile, from October 8 to 11, 2023, after having agreed on a change of SPED regulation that grants equal treatment to OPGE and SIED, reflecting a genuine interest in developing gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy in the continent, in a climate of mutual respect between these organizations.
The newsletter, @americas, we hope will be a communication channel for the main national activities, the presence of OPGE-SIED symposia in the activities of each member country, as well as OPGE’s participation in international events, including DDW (American Congress), UEG (European Congress) and WGO (World Congress).
We hope that the relaunch of @americas will enhance the reunion of gastroenterologists from the continent with the activities that are being carried out at the different levels already described, to favor the active participation of all of you in what we hope will be the “beginning of the end of the COVID 19 pandemic” in a gradual process from Uruguay to Peru, with the recent election of Lima, as the headquarters of SPED 2025, and of Dr. Alejandro Piscoya, as President-elect for the period 2023-2025.
Warm greetings
Dr. Arnoldo Riquelme (Chile)
OPGE President
Dr. Pablo Cortes (Chile)
OPGE Vice President
Dr. Edgardo Smecuol (Argentina)
Honorary Executive Secretary OPGE
Dr. Eduardo Gutiérrez Galiana recognized in the World Gastroenterology Organization
The Pan American Congress of Gastroenterology of OPGE – Pan American Organization of …
The Pan American Congress of Gastroenterology of OPGE – Pan American Organization of Gastroenterology was one to remember. WGO was honored to participate, and we thank Dr. Eduardo Gutiérrez Galiana for his summary of the event in the most recent issue of e-WGN.
“The virtual modality in a Pan American Congress of Gastroenterology has been a new experience that has shown important advantages, allowing the participation of experts from all over the world to contribute with their teachings and facilitate global access for the participants. ”
See the full summary here: https://linktr.ee/WGO
The best of the DDW in Spanish
Finished the scientific activity “The best of the DDW in Spanish” Co-coordinated between Drs. Eduardo Gutierrez Galiana, President of the OPGE and Dr. Edgardo Smecuol, Permanent Secretary of the OPGE.
An excellent set-up of the main papers presented during the Congress. From left to right: Dr. E. Smecuol, Dr. Marcelo Vela (esophageal disorders), Dr. José Maria Renés Troche (neurogastroenterology), Dr. E. Gutierrez Galiana and Dr. Andrés Acosta (obesity).
OPGE Executive Committee with AGA
After an intense and productive meeting, the OPGE board of directors with Dr. Gilaad Laplan, Director of the International Subcommittee of the America Gastroenterology Association (AGA) and Monique Dyson, Executive Secretary of the AGA.
We find a lot of support and expectation in carrying out joint activities, particularly with the SPED (Pan American Week of Digestive Diseases)
The OPGE board of directors with the President of the World Gastro Organization
The OPGE board of directors with the President of the World Gastro Organization, Prof. Cihan Yurdaydin (Turkey), the elected president, Prof. Naima Amrabi (Morocco) and the next president Prof. Guilherme Macedo (Portugal).
Important advances in mutual support for the World Congress in Istanbul next September and for the SPED (Pan American Week of Digestive Diseases) in November 2020.
OPGE General Assembly
OPGE General Assembly held on Sunday May 19 in San Diego during the DDW with significant attendance from the vast majority of the countries of the continent.
Joint webinars OPGE – ACG
The Pan American Gastroenterology Organization (OPGE) and the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) are pleased to announce a new series of free monthly webinars that will offer Latin American gastroenterologists the opportunity to learn from and interact with professors from the US.
In the first webinar in this series, Dr. Pochapin will highlight topics related to colon cancer prevention in honor of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which falls in March.
Lectures will be presented in English and our moderator Dr. Paul Thomas Kröner will accept and translate questions submitted in Spanish.
The topics of the April and May Webinars and their speakers will be announced soon.
Continuity of joint work between UEG and OPGE
The President of the UEG, Prof. Paul Fockens, together with the new Board of Directors of OPGE, chaired from Uruguay by Dr. Eduardo Gutierrez Galiana, have had a fruitful meeting within the framework of the Pan American Digestive Diseases Week recently held in Saint Paul.
This meeting aimed to set the course of the bilateral relationship for the next biennium. It was agreed to give continuity to the activities that OPGE develops annually in the UEG Week, a joint meeting called “Hot topics in Latin America”.
Likewise, at the Pan American Week of Digestive Diseases 2020 that will take place in Punta del Este, an OPGE-UEG Symposium will be held with “The best of UEGWeek”
Chile has been selected to assume the OPGE in 2020
Chile has been selected to assume the OPGE in 2020
New information will be made available shortly.
OPGE activities presented at the DDW 2018 assembly
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