Precision medicine in gastroenterology at AGW 2017

Research

By Mardi Chapman

15 Aug 2017

There’ll be no coasting on the Gold Coast at Australian Gastroenterology Week 2017 given a jam-packed educational program and a larger than ever list of invited international speakers.

Under the broad theme of Precision Medicine in Gastroenterology, GESA AGW 2017 will include something for everyone – from how to personalise treatment for patients with common conditions such as IBS through to targeted therapy for pancreatic cancer.

Chair of the scientific program committee Professor Alex Boussioutas told the limbic one of the highlights would be Associate Professor Michael Schultz’s Trans Tasman lecture on Colonic Organoids – mini guts to study the intestinal epithelium in IBD (Sun, 11.50).

Professor Boussioutas said the three dimensional cell cultures offer promise as research and clinical tools.

“Organoids are an important piece of the puzzle for precision medicine including precision oncology. We can molecularly profile the cancer, then grow organoids from the primary tissue, and test a gamut of drugs to see which ones the cancer is sensitive to.”

Professor Haruhiro Inoue, the first surgeon to perform a per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), will deliver the Bushell Lecture on The Fusion of GI Endoscopy and Surgery (Sun, 10.40).

Other international speakers include:

  • Professor Timothy Wang on Gastroenterology in the US – State of the Nation (Sun, 12.10)
  • Dr Matthieu Allez on gut inflammation and the microbiome (Sun, 13.30)
  • Professor Christian Trautwein on anti-fibrotics (Sun, 17.00)
  • Professor Markus Peck-Radosavljevic on novel targets for portal hypertension (Mon, 16.00)
  • Dr Glenn Furuta on eosinophilic oesophagitis (Tues, 8.30).

Regular features on the program include the Young Investigator Award presentations (Mon, 8.30), the Endoscopy Video Forum (Sun, 8.30) and a stream of sessions for gastroenterological nurses.

 The Limbic will be reporting from GESA AGW 2017 (20-22 August) online and on Twitter.

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