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UEG Annual Report 2020
UEG Opportunities
Providing esteemed support
and recognition for all career levels
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We provide a comprehensive selection of awards, fellowships
and prizes to contribute to the personal and professional development
of trainees and established gastroenterologists and
hepatologists.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Peter Milla was awarded the renowned UEG Lifetime Achievement
Award 2020. Professor Peter Milla is widely acknowledged
by the gastroenterology community in Europe and globally as an
outstanding Clinician Scientist, leader and mentor who enabled
and improved the lives of children and adults.
He made unique contributions to the fields of intestinal failure,
inflammation, nutrition, and motility. Bridging the worlds of
science and medicine with his research on the gut neuro-musculature,
its function, and diseases, made him one of the world's
leading experts in this arena.
Watch the award ceremony during UEG Week Virtual 2020!
UEG Journal Best Paper Award
The Journal Best Paper Award was presented to Andrew
Wisniewski, as the first author of the winning article: " Increased
incidence of systemic serious viral infections in patients with
inflammatory bowel disease associates with active disease
and use of thiopurines " . Andrew Wisniewski is a gastroenterologist
at the Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne of the University of
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and completed an IBD Fellowship
at Sorbonne University, France.
Watch the award ceremony during UEG Week Virtual 2020!
Best Abstract Prize Awardees
With this award, we identified and nurtured promising science.
Among all abstracts accepted for presentation at UEG Week Virtual
2020, the three highest scoring abstracts per main abstract
topic were chosen. This created a total of 36 awardees, with 12
main topics and 3 winners per topic. Recognition was given to
the presenting authors. See the names of awardees on p. 62!
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