4^th World Congress on Digestive & Metabolic Diseases October 29-30, 2018 | San Francisco, California, USA

Dr. Masataka Kikuyama is a Director of Gastroenterology in Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Disease Komagome Hospital. He received his M.D. degree in 1985 and Ph.D. degree in 1996 from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine. Dr. Kikuyama focuses on early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and endoscopic procedures in pancreatobiliary diseases, especially in post-surgery state. Dr. Kikuyama and his co-workers have studied the strategy for diagnosing pancreatic cancer at the early stage and reported the usefulness of endoscopic ultrasonography and repeated pancreatic juice cytology using nasopancreatic tube (Serial Pancreatic-juice Aspiration Cytologic Examination, SPACE) for that, moreover have studied endoscopic methods to treat pancreatic-biliary disorders in post surgery state and reported ERCP-related and EUS-guided treatments for those disorders.

Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and endoscopic procedures in pancreatobiliary diseases, especially in post-surgery state.

David H, Van Thiel is a professor of medicine, a former president of the American Association for the study of liver disease and is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers if not, the father of medical liver transplantation worldwide. He attended Pomona College in Clairemont, California, and then entered Medical School at the University of California at Los Angeles graduating with honors in 1967. He has served as the chief of gastroenterology/hepatology at the University of Pittsburgh, Dir. of hepatology at Loyola University Chicago, and Rush University, Chicago. He is currently in private practice of gastroenterology and hepatology with an emphasis on hepatology, which accounts for 80-85% of his practice.

Dr. David H Van Thiel, MD has expertise in 17 areas. This includes Cryoglobulinemia, Liver Diseases, Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis plus others. Dr. David Van Thiel practices Internal Medicine, Hepatology, Gastroenterology near Chicago, IL.

Dr. Edward Lichten is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Birmingham, Michigan and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital and Providence-Providence Park Hospitals. He received his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. He is one of 39 doctors at DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital and one of 73 at Providence-Providence Park Hospitals who specialize in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Dr. Lichten chose to pursue a search for the medical imbalances that contribute to and cause disease.

Professor Higinio T Mappala is a Full-time Medical Specialist III and Administrator at the Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center, Manila, Philippines, A Board-certified Internist, Gastroenterologist, Endoscopist, Clinical Nutritionist and Clinical Toxicologist; has served as a University Professor and Dean of 2 Medical Schools; a highly-regarded Researcher, with more than 70 scientific papers, and more than 30 international publications. A former Board Director of the Philippine Societies of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy; an online Research rater of McMaster, Canada and Online Dynamed Research peer-reviewer; a Young Investigator’s Awardee at the World Congress and Asia-Pacific Congress of Gastroenterology; has attended the 3-level training courses on Leadership and Management by the World Gastroenterology Organization held in Florida, USA, Dubrovnik, Croatia and Porto, Portugal. A nominee as one of the Top 100 Leading Physicians 2018, Cambridge Biographical Institute. He has been a focused lecturer on NAFLD in local and international conventions for over 15 years.

To widen experience and contribute to improving services in Healthcare, either in a clinical, administrative or academic position.