German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases

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The German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases ( DGVS ) is the scientific specialist society of German gastroenterologists . It was founded in 1913 to study the digestive organs . The American Gastroenterological Association had existed in the USA since 1897 , and the Japanese Society for Gastroenterology , founded in 1902 in Japan .

The first board consisted of Carl Anton Ewald (1st chairman), Adolf Schmidt (medical doctor, 1865) (2nd chairman), Ismar Isidor Boas , Hugo Starck and Curt Pariser . An advisory committee and a secretary were also provided. The new association saw itself as supranational and interdisciplinary. The conference venues were, for example, Amsterdam and Budapest, and pathologists and surgeons were also involved in the work. The society only received the addition of “German” to its name after its 14th conference in 1938. The first conference on digestive and metabolic diseases took place in April 1914 in Bad Homburg in front of the height .

The DGVS is based in Hamburg, and its office is in Berlin. The DGVS is a member of the AWMF . The President of the Society is Markus M. Lerch from the Greifswald University Hospital .

goals and tasks

The DGVS promotes scientific research and the development of standards in the diagnosis and treatment of gastroenterological diseases.

The focus is in particular on the development and publication of guidelines , the support of the next generation and the maintenance of international relations in the field. Another focus is the further training of doctors in clinics and practices.

International cooperation

  • UEG (United European Gastroenterology) - interdisciplinary association of European societies
  • UEGF (United European Gastroenterology Federation) - interdisciplinary association of European societies
  • WGO (World Gastroenterology Organization) - Association of national gastroenterological societies worldwide
  • ASNEMGE (Association of National European and Mediterranean Societies of Gastroenterology) Association of national gastroenterological societies (Europe and the Mediterranean region)
  • ESDO (European Society of Digestive Oncology)
  • ESGE (European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)

literature

  • Harro Jenss, Guido Gerken, Markus M. Lerch (Eds.): 100 Years of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases DGVS. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-944334-17-2 . (on-line)
  • Harro Jenss, Markus M. Lerch (Ed.): Conferences of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases; The presidents from 1914 to 2014. Sardellus contract company, Greifswald 2014, ISBN 978-3-9813402-5-9 . (on-line)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harro Jenss, Guido Gerken , Markus M. Lerch (eds.): 100 years of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases DGVS. Munich 2013, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Jenss, Gerken, Lerch (ed.): 100 years DGVS. 2013, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Jenss, Gerken, Lerch (ed.): 100 years DGVS. 2013, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Entry at the Hamburg District Court VR 4858.