Annual Report 2002-2003 :::::::                            

Presented at the XIIIth National Conference
held at Bhopal 18-21 September 2003

The Association started in 1988 as a section of the ASI. It now has about 700 members including GI Surgeons and General Surgeons interested in Surgical Gastroenterology. One of the main activities of the IASG is its National Conference. The XIIth Conference was held at Hyderabad (Organising Secretary: Prof RA Sastry, HoD Surgical Gastroenterology, NIMS, Hyderabad). It was attended by about 300 delegates. Programme included Workshop, CME and main conference. A new feature Case Capsule was introduced. The Organizing Committee contributed Rs 50,000 to the IASG.  The Conference being organized at Bhopal (Organising Secretary: Dr Subodh Varshney, HoD, Surgical Gastroenterology, Bhopal Memorial Hospital) is the XIIIth National Conference. During the year, District Level CME was organized by Dr Sunil Kumar, Tata Memorial Hospital, Jamshedpur in February 2003. The IASG has been publishing the GI Surgery Annual under the Editorship of Prof TK Chattopadhyay (HoD GI Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi). The 10^th Volume was released at the Conference. IASG Digital Library has been compiled by Dr Md Ibrarullah (HoD Surgical Gastroenterology, Ram Chandra Medical College, Chennai) - CDs were released at the Conference.

The IASG has three Orations - Lucknow Oration, Chennai Oration and Veerabhai Oration (delivered by the Immediate Past President). It also awards Best Paper and Best Poster Prizes and a Travelling Fellowship. A KC Tan - SGPGIMS Fellowship (funded by Mr KC Tan – Gleneagles Hospital , Singapore) including air travel, USD 1500 per month and 6 month stay at Singapore was announced. Another T Nonami – SGPGIMS Award (funded by Dr T Nonami) was also announced – it will fund an IASG member whose abstract has been accepted for the IASG National Conference.

During the year, elections were held for the post of Secretary and Joint Secretary – Prof VK Kapoor (HoD Surgical Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow) and Dr C Khandelwal, Patna were declared elected to the two posts, respectively.

            The Constitution Review Committee (Prof N Ananthakrishnan, Prof SK Mathur and Prof RA Sastry) has suggested amendments to the IASG constitution.

VK Kapoor

Secretary, IASG