World Organisation of Digestive Endoscopy

OMED Officers

The current term-of-office runs until the next World Congress of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy which will take place in London in 2009.

PRESIDENT: Anthony Axon, MD

  • Room 193 Clarendon Wing
  • The General Infirmary at Leeds
  • Great George Street LS1 3EX Leeds - UK
  • Tel: +44.113.392 2125, Fax: +44.113.392 6968
  • E-mail: Anthony.Axon@leedsth.nhs.uk

Biography

PRESIDENT-ELECT: Jerome D. Waye, MD

  • 650 Park Avenue
  • NY 10021 New York USA
  • Tel: +1-212-439 7779
  • Fax: +1-212-249 5349
  • E-mail: Jdwaye@aol.com

PAST-PRESIDENT: Hirohumi Niwa, MD

  • Taimei Bldg., 22, 3-chome, Kanda Ogawa-machi
  • Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101, JAPAN
  • Tel: +81.3.3291.4111
  • Fax: +81.3.32915568
  • E-mail: hirohuminiwa@jges.or.jp

SECRETARY GENERAL: Jean-Francois Rey, MD

  • Institut Arnault Tzanck
  • Dept. of Hepatology & Gastroenterology
  • Avenue du Dr. Maurice Donat
  • 06721 St. Laurent du Var Cedex France
  • Tel: +33-4-9227 3887, Fax: +33-4-9307 5158
  • E-mail: JEAN-FRANCOIS.REY@WANADOO.FR

TREASURER: Robert J. Bailey, MD

  • Hys Centre
  • Suite 310
  • 11010 101st Street
  • AB T5H 4B9 Edmonton Canada
  • Tel: +1-780-421 1029, Fax: +1-780-425 5533
  • E-mail: r.j.bailey@ualberta.ca

Zone Presidents:

APSDE: William S.C. Chao, MD

  • c/o Endoscopy Center Prince of Wales Hospital
  • Shatin, N.T. HONG KONG, CHINA
  • Fax: +852.26350075 Phone +852.26362233
  • E-mail: wscchao@netvigator.com

Biography

ESGE: Jacques Devière, MD

  • Hôpital Erasme
  • Gastro-Enterologie
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Route de Lennik 808
  • 1070 Brussels, Belgium
  • Tel: +32-2-555 3712 / 3622, Fax: +32-2-555 4697
  • E-mail: jdeviere@ulb.ac.be

SIED: Professor Juan Miguel Abdo, MD

Committee Chairs:

EDUCATION: James DiSario, MD

  • Gastroenterology Consultants of Monterey Bay
  • 23 Upper Ragsdale Drive
  • Monterey, California 93940
  • Tel: +1-831 375-3577, Fax: +1-831 375-1478
  • E-mail: james.disario@hsc.utah.edu

RESEARCH: Naohisa Yahagi, MD

  • Department of Gastroenterology
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • University of Tokyo, Toranomon Hospital
  • 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Tel: +81-3-3815 5411, Fax: +81-3-5800 8806
  • E-mail: Yahagi-tky@umin.ac.jp

COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING: Graeme Young, MD

  • Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Flinders Medical Center
  • Bedford Park
  • S. Aus, 5042 P-61-8-8204-4964
  • SA 5061 Malvern, Australia
  • Tel: +61-8-8271 3811, Fax: +61-8-8204 3943
  • E-mail: graeme.young@flinders.edu.au

UPPER GI CANCER SCREENING: Joseph Sung, MD

  • Division of Gastroenterology, Dept. of Medicine and Therapeutic
  • Prince of Wales Hospital
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
  • Tel: +852 26323127, Fax: +852 26467824
  • E-mail: b201715@mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk

DOCUMENTATION & STANDARDISATION: Lars Aabakken, MD

  • Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • Rikshospitalet University Hospital
  • 0027 Oslo, N-Norway
  • Tel: +47-23072387
  • Fax: +47-2307 2008
  • E-mail: lars.aabakken@klinmed.uio.no

Biography

STANDARDS OF PRACTICE: David J. Bjorkman, MD

  • University of Utah School of Medicine
  • Room 1C109 SOM
  • 30 North 1900 East
  • Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2101
  • Tel: 801-581-6436, Fax: 801-585-3300
  • E-mail: david.bjorkman@hsc.utah.edu