Dr Kerith Duncanson, Professor Nick Talley, and Dr Emily Hoedt (left to right), at the Melbourne Convention Centre for WCOG @ AGW 2025.
The World Congress of Gastroenterology @ Australian Gastroenterology Week 2025 (WCOG @ AGW25) was recently held in Melbourne from the 19th to 22nd September 2025, drawing global attendance and high praise from delegates, presenters and exhibitors.
The combination of the World Congress of Gastroenterology and Australian Gastroenterology Week created a great environment for facilitating international collaborations and sharing the latest research and technology.
During the conference, Professor Nick Talley was presented a prestigious Masters of the WGO Award– the highest honour the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) can bestow on a member, granted only to those individuals who have provided outstanding dedication to the mission of the WGO and achieved distinction in areas of scholarly research, teaching, and service to the community.
Our Centre of Research Excellence in Transforming Gut Health (CRE-TGH) researchers and collaborators attended the event to share presentations and recent research, as well as network with global experts in various fields. Our Chief Investigators and Associate Investigators successfully represented the CRE-TGH by attending the conference, chairing sessions and making presentations- congratulations to all who attended and made meaningful contributions to the event and our ongoing research.
See the listed chaired sessions and presentations by our CRE researchers from the program below:
Luminal Session: The Microbiome as a Treatment Target
Chairs: Nicholas Talley & Emma Halmos
Current and Emerging Approaches to Defining the Gut Microbiome in the Clinical Setting- Ayesha Shah
Microbiota – Immune Interaction and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Luminal Gastrointestinal Disease- Emily Hoedt
Restoring Gut Health in DGBI: A Dietary Approach Targeting the Microbiome- Kerith Duncanson
Nutrition Free Papers (7 min talk and 3 min Q&A)
Chairs: Emma Halmos & Kerith Duncanson
Westernised Diet Pattern Predominates Pre-Diagnosis in Non-Caucasian Children with Newly Diagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease at an Australian Tertiary Children’s Hospital- Nisha Thacker
Luminal Session: Management Challenges in Gastroduodenal Diseases
Chairs: Jane Andrews & Ayesha Shah
Autoimmune Gastritis, Eosinophilic Gastroduodenitis – New Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy- Nicholas Talley
Artificial Nutrition Support in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction: What, When, Why Not?- Gerald Holtmann
Nutrition Session: Dietary Manipulation In IBD
Chairs: Daniel Lightowler & Andrew Day (NZL)
Existing Dietary Therapies – Update of ECCO Consensus Guidelines of Dietary Therapy for IBD- Emma Halmos
Advances in Gastric Cancer
Chairs: Emad El-Omar & Yuto Shimamura
Risk Factors for Gastric Cancer: A Contemporary Understanding- Emad El-Omar
Thank you to GESA, WGO and other sponsors and affiliates for organising another successful AGW & WCOG. We look forward to next years edition of AGW.
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