TOPICS

ENDOSCOPY

UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
NON-MALIGNANT PANCREATICO-BILIARY DISEASES
NEW ENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES
STATE-OF-THE- ART LECTURE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, past present and future
PANCREATICO-BILIARY MALIGNANCIES
COLORECTAL PATHOLOGY

CORE
VIRAL HEPATITIS
• State-of-the-art lecture: Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis B and C in the Arab world

PANCREAS
• New therapeutic modalities in acute pancreatitis
• Non-A, Non-B pancreatitis
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography and the pancreas:
friend or foe?

GASTROINTESTINAL GENETICS
• Molecular screening and diagnosis in colorectal cancer
• Molecular basis of Familial Mediterranean Fever
• Genetics in inflammatory bowel disease

GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE

HEPATOLOGY: FOUAD AL THAKEB MEMORIAL SESSION
• Viral steatosis
• Smoking and the liver
• Auto-immune cholangitis

IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
• Pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome
• Treatment of irritable bowel syndrome : a critical appraisal

TOPICS

HELICOBACTER PYLORI

INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

GUT DISORDERS
• State-of-the-art lecture: chronic diarrhea
• State-of-the-art-lecture: management of anorectal disorders
• Approach to patients with constipation

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• SFED: training in endoscopy
• Evidence-based clinical practice
• OMGE experience in endoscopy training in Rabat and Cairo

LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

GASTROINTESTINAL IMAGING
• Advances in ultrasound imaging in gastrointestinal diseases
• Doppler endoscopic ultrasound in the upper gastrointestinal tract
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography and pregnancy

OBESITY
• The molecular and genetic basis of obesity
• Liver manifestations of obesity
• Update on medical treatment
• Update on surgical therapy

PORTAL HYPERTENSION
• Novelties and new molecules in the treatment of portal hypertension
• Prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in portal hypertension
• Hepato-renal syndrome