MILWAUKEE, Jan. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Professor Guilherme Macedo, MD, PhD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, FAASLD, was elected as the 2021-2023 President of the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) by the General Assembly during GASTRO 2021 Prague on 10 December 2021.

Prof. Macedo is the Head of the Gastroenterology Department in Centro Hospitalar Universitario de São Joao and University of Porto Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal, which also includes the World Gastroenterology Organisation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Training Center.

Prof. Macedo has served on both the Governing Council and Executive Committee as Treasurer (2015-2019), WGOF Chair (2019-2021) and President-elect (2019-2021). As Treasurer, he was also Chair of the Finance Committee for those terms.

He has served as the Director of the WGO Porto Gastroenterology and Hepatology Training Center since its inauguration in 2015 (and has been a member of the Training Center Committee in this capacity since then).

He has additionally served on several WGO committees as a member of the Train the Trainer Committee (2009-2021) including serving as Faculty at various Train the Trainers workshops, the Hepatology Interest Group (2009-2021), the WDHD Committee (2013 and 2018), Scientific Program Committee (2017-2019) and the WGO Foundation board (2017-2019).

He is currently also President of the WGO Member Society, Sociedade Portuguesa de Gastrenterología, since 2021.

"These are the times to pursue WGO values with persistence, foresight, selflessness, creativity and enthusiasm: we´ll feel globally, think globally and act globally," said Prof. Macedo.

Please join us in welcoming the members of the 2021-2023 WGO Governing Council:

Professor Guilherme Macedo, Portugal
President

Professor Geoffrey Metz, Australia
President-Elect and Chair of WGO Foundation

Professor Naima Lahbabi-Amrani, Morocco
Past President and Chair of Nominations

Professor Carolina Olano, Uruguay
Secretary General

Professor Mark Topazian, USA
Treasurer

Professor Kaichun Wu, China
At-Large Member

Professor Govind Makharia, India
Chair, Clinical Research Committee

Professor Vivek Kaul, USA
Chair, Endoscopy, Other Procedures and Outreach Interest Group

Professor Nancy Reau, USA
Chair, Hepatology Interest Group

Professor Alejandro Piscoya, Peru
Chair, Guidelines Committee

Professor Joost Drenth, The Netherlands
Chair, Scientific Programs Committee

Professor Kelly Burak, Canada
Chair, Train the Trainers Committee

Professor Luis Carlos Sabbagh, Colombia
Chair, Training Centers Committee

Professor Dan Dumitrascu, Romania
Chair, Publications Committee

Professor Aasma Shaukat, USA
Chair, Young Members Committee

Professor Varocha Mahacai, Thailand
Promotion of Education in Asia-Pacific Region, Councilor at Large

Professor Arnoldo Riquelme, Chile
Pan-American Gastroenterological Association (OPGE)

Professor Justin Wu, Hong Kong
Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APAGE)

Professor Reda Elwakil, Egypt
African Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE)

Professor Axel Dignass, Germany
United European Gastroenterology (UEG)

ABOUT THE WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY ORGANISATION

Formed in 1935 and incorporated in 1958, The World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) is a federation of 117 member societies and 4 regional associations of gastroenterology representing more than 50,000 individual members worldwide, focusing on the improvement of standards in gastroenterology training and education on a global scale. The WGO Foundation, incorporated in 2007, is dedicated to raising funds to support WGO educational programs and activities. For more information, contact: info@worldgastroenterology.org.

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