Prof. John Lubel

Australia’s premier gastroenterology and liver meeting is just days away with GESA’s Australian Gastroenterology Week (AGW 2022) to be held this year in Sydney starting on Friday 9 September.

Following the easing of pandemic restrictions, the 2022 meeting will be the first face-to-face AGW for over two years, and it will also have capacity for online participation for those unable to attend in person.

The AGW 2022 features a wide range of Australian gastroenterology and hepatology clinicians and researchers and also 18 international speakers, many of whom will be present  in person at the ICC, Sydney venue.

International experts include Professor Evelien Dekker from the Netherlands who will deliver the Plenary Bushell Foundation Lecture 2022 entitled Serrated Lesions: State-of-the-Art Pathobiology, Detection, Resection and Impact on Colorectal Cancer.

Dr Zoë Raos, President of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology, will deliver the Plenary Trans-Tasman Lecture 2022.

Other international speakers who will be at the meeting in person include Professor Prasad Iyer of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who will speak about state-of-the-art approaches to upper GI endoscopy in conditions such as Barrett’s Oesophagus.

Professor Bruce Sands of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and lead investigator of the landmark studies ACCENT 2, UNIFI and VARSITY, will speak about the use of biologics in IBD.

And hepatologist Professor Emma Culver from the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, will deliver a State-of-the-Art Lecture on autoimmune liver disease entitled IgG4 disease in 2022 – from Diagnosis to Management.

Chair of the GESA Scientific Program Committee, Professor John Lubel says this year’s AGW program will feature sessions complementing the meeting’s theme: “Bidirectional Learning – a foundation for excellence & innovation”.

“This theme recognises the importance of mutual learning and sharing of ideas, with the purpose of achieving clinical excellence in gastroenterology and hepatology. Bidirectional learning is not just about peer relationships but also understanding our patients’ journeys and lived experience through their illness,” he says in a GESA welcome statement.

Other sessions at AGW include:

GENIUS (Gastroenterology Network of Intestinal Ultrasound)

• Regional, Remote & Indigenous Network
• Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)
• Surgery in IBD: From Fistulae to Pouches
• GESA’s Private Practice Network
• Nutritional Management of Common Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Motility Disorders
• Liver: HCC, Viral Hepatitis and MAFLD.

The detailed program is available here.