United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week will in 2016 return to the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) and will take place October 15–19, and the meeting will feature a broad range of highly interactive and interesting sessions for the congress delegates. Just like previous years, the aim of UEG Week is that it should be attractive for young as well as for more-experienced clinicians, and for basic, translational and clinical scientists alike. The goal for the meeting is to advance science and to link people with different backgrounds in our gastroenterology community.
There are several highlights in the program, which has been created by the UEG Scientific Committee for UEG Week in Vienna, and some of these are highlighted below:
Introduced in 2015, we will keep the UEG Week Hotspot, which is the premier place to be at UEG Week where the most controversial sessions, hottest debates and interactive abstract discussions will take place. These sessions promise to be most intense and very well attended. Heated discussions of the UEG “Abstracts on FIRE” (Frontiers In REsearch) and breaking news will be presented at this center stage of UEG Week. Another interactive and highly interesting feature at the Hotspot are the Clinical Trials Revisited sessions, where results from recently published large clinical trials will be presented, reviewed and discussed by experts.
For the practicing clinicians, our Clinical Case sessions in the poster area will be of great interest. Among a large number of submitted original cases, the most interesting cases with the greatest learning objective for the attending audience have been selected for poster presentation and will be discussed with a panel of clinical experts.
The sessions “From guidelines to clinical practice” will discuss how well European and/or national clinical guidelines are translated into clinical practice. These sessions will be of great relevance to the busy clinician, since experts will present current guidelines in common diseases, and discuss how they are used in the clinical setting today and how they should be used.
Our clinically oriented one-day symposium within the meeting, entitled “Advances in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology,” will like in previous years focus on an area where substantial clinically useful progress has been made, and in 2016 the topic is Inflammatory Bowel Disease – an area in which we without doubt have seen substantial progress during the last years.
Continuing from the success of previous meetings, the two-day initiative “Today’s Science; Tomorrow’s Medicine” is again on the program for 2016 with a very interesting theme: “Advanced diagnostics for individualized medicine,” which should be of interest both for scientists and clinicians, as we already today strive to individualize our treatment choices for patients based on results from tests and investigations.
The “heart of the congress” is the poster area, where cutting-edge science is presented by the best researchers, and our aim is that this should be a very interactive area, with e-poster terminals, poster champ sessions, poster discussions and exchange of ideas between investigators. Moreover, in-depth discussions of selected posters take place in the Posters in the Spotlight sessions – a highly appreciated feature at UEG Week. The quantity and quality of submitted original work has steadily increased at our meeting over the last years, which we are very proud of. Good science is the basis for a successful meeting!
The future of our meeting are our young delegates, and therefore we have several initiatives for the young attendees, such as the Young gastrointestinal (GI) network, a special Young GI Track through the program and the Young GI Lounge, as well as several awards for young investigators.
These were just a few of the highlights of the upcoming UEG Week 2016, but I am sure that you will find other highlights as well at our meeting, so therefore attending the meeting is highly recommended! I hope to see you in Vienna in October 2016!
