Visceral Medicine Congress 2017: Discuss interdisciplinary therapy concepts
11.08.2017 10:04
“Patients change – so do we” – this is the motto of this year’s Visceral Medicine Congress 2017, organized by the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS), its Endoscopy Section and the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV). Against the background of demographic change, doctors assess interdisciplinary therapy concepts as having no alternative. The discussion will take place in Dresden from September 13th to 16th, 2017.
According to the organizers, the focus is on visceral medicine areas, in which the development steps have been particularly rapid in recent years and the overlap between the fields of gastroenterology, visceral surgery and endoscopy is particularly strong. The common problems of infectious medicine, cross-organ inflammatory mechanisms and the treatment of tumor diseases are among the focal points of the congress.
Interdisciplinary events such as “Multi-resistant pathogens and antimicrobial stewardship”, “New concepts and therapeutic approaches for obesity and Crohn’s disease” and “Multimodal therapy for oligometastasis of gastrointestinal carcinomas” are intended to take this focus into account. The doctors also want to discuss how adequate care can be maintained in view of economization and cost pressure in medicine.
“The majority and basis of gastroenterological diagnostics and treatment takes place in specialist practices,” says Dr. med. Albin Lütke, Chairman of the Endoscopy Section. “That’s why it’s important to me to incorporate more ideas from practice into the congress program this year and to address how we can improve the collaboration between clinicians and gastroenterologists in practice for the benefit of our patients.”
In the competition for young medical talent, the specialist societies are required to initiate creative and practical solutions to achieve the desired balance between family and work as well as outpatient and inpatient health care. So that young people can effectively shape the future of the field, this year young visceral medicine specialists are deliberately represented as speakers and in the presentation of clinical and basic scientific research results.
The Congress Visceral Medicine 2017 will also be offering patients a varied program on September 16, 2017. The German Liver Aid doctor-patient seminar provides information about various liver diseases and presents current treatment methods. Patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease will learn basic and new information about diagnostics and therapy at the German Crohn's Disease / Ulcerative Colitis Association (DCCV) seminar. MAGDA's doctor-patient seminar on irritable bowel syndrome focuses on the possibilities and limitations of treating irritable bowel syndrome as well as food intolerances. Deutsche Pankreashilfe eV provides information about current findings on diseases of the pancreas. All doctor-patient seminars are free of charge.