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DDW is the premier educational forum for GI professionals from around the world. Each year, OMED participates in this exiting meeting and hold its bi-annual business conferences, committee meetings and organisational fora. Also, in preparation of ICE2011, we will be come together to discuss this fascinating congress. We see this as the perfect environment to follow our mission to promote education and training for physicians and surgeons. Also, the DDW offers high-quality educational programs which include over 400 sessions, clinical and research symposia, state-of-the-art lectures and research and topic fora, covering a wide array of topics and presented by a world-renowned faculty unsurpassed in their field.
| The DDW is also a wonderful occasion to network with colleagues where participants can partake in an array of networking and social opportunities to meet fellow digestive disease specialists from around the globe. The DDW Exhibition hosts hundreds of companies showcasing the latest GI products and services. 
We are proud to announce, that OMED Colorectal Cancer Screening Committee will hold their annual meeting during the Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, in collaboration with ICRCSN and IDCA. The theme will be "Key Lessons and Challenges in Colorectal Cancer Screening: Developing the Guidelines for new test evaluation". Our aim is to increase dialogue and debate amongst committee members, and to present the draft guidelines of the OMED Working Party on evaluation of new screening tests. We appreciate this wonderful opportunity to welcome international faculty to share their experience and evaluate future projects. Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 1 - 7pm For more information, please contact the OMED Executive Secretariat via email: secretariat@omed.org
The OMED Endoscopy Directors’ Workshops target the leaders and those responsible for organizing endoscopic services on the ground and deeply involves local faculty in the workshops. This emphasis contributes a bigger impact on practice. We hope to stimulate safe and innovative endoscopy and to provide participants with the knowledge required to organise their endoscopy service, to develop their own protocols, quality assurance and training. An important aim is to stimulate the concept of teamwork in the endoscopy unit while at the same time emphasising the importance of leadership. OMED experienced a busy month of April, offering workshops in Marrakesh / Morocco and Damascus / Syria. OMED will continue offering workshops around the world and welcomes all to share this opportunity of gaining knowledge.
This month OMED highlights the Endoscopy Unit at University of Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Endoscopy unit of the University of Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is proud to be recognized as an OMED Center of Excellence. The unit is part of the UMMC which is a tertiary hospital serving a large suburban area of the capital city of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur. The endoscopy unit follows the tradition of the hospital, long regarded as the top medical center in the country. The endoscopy unit in the UMMC was the first such unit established in Malaysia and under the leadership of Professor Dr KL Goh has gone on to maintain its status as the leading center providing the whole range of therapeutic GI procedures as well as undeniable strength in research and training. Since 2005 the Endoscopy unit has opened its doors to foreign trainees. One of the proudest achievements of the center is the annual Endoscopy workshop organized in conjunction with the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology since 1993. In 2009, we were honored by the participation of Dr Jerry Waye who delivered the Workshop Distinguished Lecture entitled “Exploring the Limits of Endoscopy”. In 2010, Malaysia will be hosting the Asian Pacific Digestive Disease Week in Kuala Lumpur from 19th-22nd September 2010 with the theme "Gastroenterology in Asia Pacific- Excellence in the New Decade". » Read more
Please follow the Video Library link below or click on the image to view a live demonstration recording from the 2008 Annual Endoscopy Workshop of the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterolgy and Hepatology. Dr. Byeon Jeong Sik from the Asian Medical Center, University Usan, Seoul, Korea performs an Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) in the colon. This technique, developed in Japan, requires that a considerable amount of fluid is injected into the submucosa under a polyp prior to removal. An incision is made into the mucosa and then dissection is carried out in the submucosal plane under the tumor with a needle-knife type of device. After most of the tumor has been undermined, a snare is used to complete the polypectomy. A single large specimen is delivered to the pathology laboratory for precise determination of margins and depth of penetration of the neoplasm.
This was found in a 55 year old man undergoing upper digestive endoscopy for iron deficiency anaemia. Which of the following is NOT a recognised association? a) hypergastrinaemia b) portal hypertension c) liver disease without portal hypertension d) systemic sclerosis e) bile reflux
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