Welcome
The Gastroenterology Foundation of South Africa was established in 2006 with the aim of contributing towards the continuing medical education of medical and surgical Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists.
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Upcoming Event
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COVID-19 ECHO Clinic http://www.medicine.uct.ac.za/covid19-echo-clinic |
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Weekly Wednesday G-ECHO webinars
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IBD Interest Group Meeting Saturday 27 November 2021, The Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town Click here to view invite |
News
GHASSA New articles on Non-Alcoholic fat liver disease
Welcome to our new Trustees
It is with great pleasure that we announce and welcome Professor Wendy Spearman and Dr Bilal Bobat as Trustees to the Gastro Foundation of SSA. I hope their tenure will be an enjoyable and successful one.
Professors Jake Krige and Sandie Thomson have been Trustees since the inception of the Foundation and have contributed enormously to the Foundation’s success. They have been integral to the growth of the annual Spier meeting and to all our interest group meetings. I have valued their trust and their continued support. They have been invaluable mentors to me personally, and for this I thank them.
They assume the title Emeritus Trustees and continue as active Trustees of the Foundation.
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COVID-19 ECHO Clinic
As a Hub, the Division of Hepatology and Liver Clinic in the Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur/UCT has been hosting “Viral hepatitis in sub-Saharan Africa” ECHO clinics aimed at delivering expertise on the management of viral hepatitis to under-resourced regions. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Project ECHO at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque has expanded our licence to run weekly COVID-19 clinician-based virtual meetings on the ECHO ZOOM platform, featuring both international and national clinicians and researchers. These weekly meetings are facilitated by Profs Wendy Spearman and Mark Sonderup and chaired by Prof Graeme Meintjes, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT together with a panel of experts including infectious disease specialists, respiratory physicians, critical care specialists, cardiologists and rheumatologists.
These past presentations are available as recordings on the Department of Medicine website www.medicine.uct.ac.za/covid19-echo-clinic
Supported by the Gastroenterology Foundation of Sub Sahara Africa.
- Health-care provision and policy for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in sub-Saharan Africa
- Epidemiology, risk factors, social determinants of health, and current management for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in sub-Saharan Africa
Welcome to our new Trustees
It is with great pleasure that we announce and welcome Professor Wendy Spearman and Dr Bilal Bobat as Trustees to the Gastro Foundation of SSA. I hope their tenure will be an enjoyable and successful one.
Professors Jake Krige and Sandie Thomson have been Trustees since the inception of the Foundation and have contributed enormously to the Foundation’s success. They have been integral to the growth of the annual Spier meeting and to all our interest group meetings. I have valued their trust and their continued support. They have been invaluable mentors to me personally, and for this I thank them.
They assume the title Emeritus Trustees and continue as active Trustees of the Foundation.
Read More
COVID-19 ECHO Clinic
As a Hub, the Division of Hepatology and Liver Clinic in the Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur/UCT has been hosting “Viral hepatitis in sub-Saharan Africa” ECHO clinics aimed at delivering expertise on the management of viral hepatitis to under-resourced regions. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Project ECHO at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque has expanded our licence to run weekly COVID-19 clinician-based virtual meetings on the ECHO ZOOM platform, featuring both international and national clinicians and researchers. These weekly meetings are facilitated by Profs Wendy Spearman and Mark Sonderup and chaired by Prof Graeme Meintjes, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT together with a panel of experts including infectious disease specialists, respiratory physicians, critical care specialists, cardiologists and rheumatologists.
These past presentations are available as recordings on the Department of Medicine website www.medicine.uct.ac.za/covid19-echo-clinic
Supported by the Gastroenterology Foundation of Sub Sahara Africa.
Blog
 Cecilia Coccia |
12th Gastro Foundation Weekend for Fellows: 3 - 5 September 2021 I was fortunate enough to attend my third Spier Fellows weekend this September. Prior to the weekend, many questions ran through my mind: “what about covid?”, “how will a sociallydistanced conference be successful”, “usually its held in summer, so will I freeze to death on the morning run?” and “did the junior fellows even RSVP to the event?”. Despite much questioning and scepticism, I was proven wrong, the weekend was a great success as always, with fellows travelling from all over the country to attend. Furthermore, virtual platforms allowed for live streaming of the lectures to those who could not be present in person. read more |
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 Prof Chris Kassianides |
G-ECHO Blog 2020 Since the start of the COVID pandemic in March 2020, all the Gastro Foundation teaching programs pivoted to a virtual platform. The year ended apprehensively with the decision to host two face to face meetings - a liver interest group meeting at the end of November 2020 in Johannesburg and an IBD interest group meeting in the first week of December in Cape Town. read more |
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