Editorial - Message from the Editors - Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG - Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD

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6 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Message from the Editors Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Associate Dean for Faculty Development University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, Washington, USA Mário Reis Álvares-da-Silva, MD, PhD Professor of Hepatology Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil This issue highlights two impor-tant liver diseases: Hepatitis D and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. Dr. Abbas from Pakistan has written a scholarly summary of Hepatitis D and Dr. Zapata from Santiago Chile has written a thorough and thought-ful article on intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy enriched by his own experience and research. The e-WGN Expert Point of View Articles Collection also continues to be popular; there were nearly 700 visits to this section in June alone. The most popular articles were: • “Global Burden Of Liver Disease: A True Burden on Health Sciences and Economies!!” by S. K. Sarin, MD, DM, and Rakhi Maiwall, MD, DM • “The Growing Global Burden of Gallstone Disease” by Monica Acalovschi, MD, and Frank Lam-mert, MD • “Part II: Global Burden Of Liver Disease: A True Burden on Health Sciences and Economies!!” by S. K. Sarin, MD, DM, and Rakhi Maiwall, MD, DM • “Gut Microbiota, Diet, and Anti-biotics in IBD Pathogenesis; from a Developing Country Perspective” by Tarkan Karakan, MD • “HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV Co-infection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Transmission, Disease Outcomes, and Treatment Options” by Mark W. Sonderup, MD, and C. Wendy Spearman, MD We congratulate these authors, as well as all our other authors who have sub-mitted their articles and enriched our publication. If you have not yet visited the collection, we invite you to do so now at www.worldgastroenterology. org/publications/e-wgn/e-wgn-expert-point- of-view-articles-collection. In this issue you will also see up-dates from conferences and celebra-tions of World Digestive Health Day around the world, which underscores our global community, with its focus on excellent care of our patients with gastrointestinal and liver disease as well as a focus on prevention. As always, comments and sugges-tions are welcome. Please feel free to contact us any time through info@ worldgastroenterology.org. Chris and Mario

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