Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) 2024 was a great event!

A very big thank you to:

Our great NZSG Convenors:

• Dr Jerry Chin, Waikato Hospital

• Dr Melissa Haines, Waikato Hospital
  

  and everyone at the hospital who contributed to making this a great event.

Our Wonderful Presenters:

• Dr Vinay Chandrasekhara, head of the advanced endoscopy and pancreas groups at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota USA.

• Professor Paul Fockens, consultant gastroenterologist in Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, NZ.

• Dr Trina Kella, neurogastroenterologist residing in Brisbane, Australia.

• Dr Ryan Law, gastroenterologist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota USA.

• Dr. Laura Lehrian, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA.

• Darrell S. Pardi, M.D., M.Sc., consultant and chair of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA.

• Associate Professor Karthik Ravi, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,Associate Chair of Clinical Practice and Director of the Esophageal Motility Lab at Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota USA.

• Dr. Cynthia Seow, Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary working as a Clinician Researcher in Gastroenterology.

• Associate Professor Doug Simonetto, Transplant Hepatologist and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA.

• Dr Kymberly Watt, Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA

• Associate Professor Amany Zekry is an A/Professor of Medicine, a clinical academic at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and director of Gastroenterology and Hepatology services at St George Hospital UNSW.

Our Generous Sponsors:

• Principal sponsor - Olympus

• Platinum sponsor - Johnson & Johnson

• Gold sponsors

  • Boston Scientific sponsoring our Coffee carts

  • C.R. Kennedy NZ Ltd sponsoring our Fun Run & Walk

• Silver sponsors

  • Fresenius Kabi sponsoring our Santisation station

  • Medtronic sponsoring our Conference app

  • Steris New Zealand sponsoring the Lanyard and name badge

  • Takeda sponsoring the Pocket programme & Women in Gastroenterology luncheon

• Bronze Sponsors

  • Norgine sponsoring Thursday catering

  • Pharmaco sponsoring Wednesday catering

  • Roche sponsoring Transport

• AbbVie for sponsoring our Satellite meetings

• Alimetry for sponsoring the NZSG Young Investigators Award for Innovations in Gastroenterology.

Our many Exhibitors:

• AbbVie

• Alimetry

• Avanos

• Bio Serve

• Boston Scientific

• CRK

• Ecolab

• Endoventure

• Evolution Healthcare

• Eziburg Medical

• Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

• Frensenius Kabi

• Getinge

• GSK

• Hallmark Surgical

• Health Fx

• Insight Medical

• Johnson and Johnson

• Medical Technologies Australia

• Medtronic

• Norgine

• NZMII

• Obex

• Olympus

• Pharmaco

• Roche

• Steris

• Takeda

• Whiteley

and of course, our terrific Conference Manager, Emma Prattley, and the team at Conference Innovators.

Thank you for making our 2024 ASM

an event to remember.

Pictures of from the event can be found at https://keyimagery.drive.gallery/c2k83m