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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Patient Blood Management
Saturday 12 June (hybrid) Click here to view invite |
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Fellows Weekend 2021 Friday 3 – Sunday 5 September Click here to view invite |
News
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.
Investigation on the hereditary basis of colorectal cancers in an African population with frequent early onset cases
Background
Approximately 25% of colorectal cancer patients in sub-Saharan Africa are younger than 40 years, and hereditary factors may contribute. We investigated the frequency and patterns of inherited colorectal cancer among black Zimbabweans.
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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.
Investigation on the hereditary basis of colorectal cancers in an African population with frequent early onset cases
Background
Approximately 25% of colorectal cancer patients in sub-Saharan Africa are younger than 40 years, and hereditary factors may contribute. We investigated the frequency and patterns of inherited colorectal cancer among black Zimbabweans.
read more
Blog
 Dr Mzamo Mbelle |
Liver Interest Meeting JHB 2020 The annual liver interest meeting sponsored but the Gastro Foundation of SSA was held at the Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel and Conference Centre on 28 November 2020. It was an unexpectedly cold and miserable morning, almost resembling a typical autumn day in the UK. As the few delegates started to trickle in, there was an unstated ambiance which mirrored not only the weather, but the weight of the ongoing global pandemic. read more |
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 Dr Manoko Seabi |
IBD Interest Meeting CPT 2020 The annual IBD interest meeting for 2020, held during the COVID-19 pandemic, took place at the Crystal Towers Hotel in Cape Town. This year there were only a handful of local people attending physically, while most people joined online. The sessions kicked off following a warm welcome and update by Prof Chris Kassianides on what the Gastroenterology Foundation of Sub Saharan Africa (GFSSA )has been up to, and what we can look forward to in the future with regards to education and collaborations, both locally and internationally, in the field of gastroenterology. read more |
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 Prof Chris Kassianides |
GECHO Blog 2021 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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