13^th Euro-Global Gastroenterology Conference August 20-21, 2018 Rome, Italy

Dr. Maxwell M. Chait is a practicing gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He is a Fellow of several prestigious organizations, including the American College of Physicians, American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He has authored numerous publications and serves on the editorial board of several journals. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Liver Disease and Transplantation

Gastroenterology

David Van Thiel is a gastroenterologist in Berwyn, Illinois. He is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush University Medical Center. He received his medical degree from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and has been in practice for 39 years. Dr. Van Thiel accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. He is one of 21 doctors at Rush Oak Park Hospital and one of 25 at Rush University Medical Center who specialize in Gastroenterology. Dr. Van Thiel graduated from University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. David H Van Thiel, MD has obtained board certification from the member board for Internal Medicine and Hepatology.

David H Van Thiel, MD has expertise in 17 areas. This includes Cryoglobulinemia, Liver Diseases, Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis plus others. Dr. David Van Thiel practices Internal Medicine, Hepatology, Gastroenterology near Chicago, IL.

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Mentoring Faculty Areas of Expertise: Gene Expression Molecular Medicine

Signaling and transcriptional mechanisms regulating cholesterol homeostasis.

Odd Helge Gilja was born in Bergen, Norway in 1962. He received his Medical Degree at University of Bergen in 1990. He did his Ph.D. at University of Bergen in 1997. He specialised in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Haukeland University Hospital. He was appointed Associate Professor at Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen in 2001 and professor from 2002. He was president of the Norwegian Society for Diagnostic Ultrasound in Medicine from 2001 to 2007. He has been Advisory Board member of European Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) from 2001. He was appointed chairman of EFSUMB's Education and Professional Standards Committee in 2007 and still is. He is Editor of 4 books, has written 25 book chapters, and is author of over 100 scientific papers. He has twice won the European Young Investigators Award of EFSUMB. He was in 2006 elected to give the prestigious Euroson Lecture in Bologna. His present positions are: Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen; Senior Consultant at National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; and Director of MedViz - an interdisciplinary R&D cluster in medical imaging and visualisation.

Abdominal ultrasound scanning Elastography 3D ultrasound, strain imaging Contrast-enhanced ultrasound Gastric motility Ultrasound visualisation.

Bing-Rong Liu has completed his MD in 2002 from Chongqing Medical University. He appointed as the director of gastrointestinal department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in June 2004. He has developed so many endoscopic new techniques and published more than 20 papers in reputed journals

Gastrointestinal Surgery, Endoscopy

Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation

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