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March 2003

4th Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Congress
    Place: Miami, Florida, USA
    Time: February 27 - March 2, 2003
    Organizer: American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA)
    More information: Secretariat
      Strategem, Inc.
      26064 Capitol Drive, Suite A
      Daphne, AL 36526 USA
    Web-site: www.ahpba.org
    Email: hanna.wilson@vanderbilt.edu

Suomen Gastroenterologiayhdistyksen Vuosikokous, Finland
    Place: Turku, Finland
    Time: March 6 - 7, 2003
    Organizer: Suomen Gastroenterologiayhdistys
    General informtion: Aiheena hepatologia
    More information: Suomen Gastroenterologiayhdistys ry
      c/o Duodecim
      PL 713, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
    Web-site: www.terveysportti.fi/gastroenterologiayhdistys
    Email: ritva.hanhijarvi@duodecim.fi

Today´s weather in Turku:

3rd International Workshop on Endoscopic Ultrasonography and Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
    Place: Seoul, Korea
    Time: March 7 - 9, 2003
    Organizer: Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
    General information: Main topics:
      - Conventional EUS
      -2d & 3D Intraductal ultrasonography
      - Diagnostic interventional EUS
      - Therapeutic interventional EUS
      - Laser induced fluorescence endoscopy
      - Magnifying and chromo-endoscopy
      - Variable stiffness & virtual colonoscopy
      - PEG & PEJ
      - and other
    > More information: Moon-Sung Lee, M.D.
      Workshop Secretary General
      Digestive Disease Center
      Soon chun Hyang University Hospital
      657 Hannam-Dong, Yongsan-Ku
      Seoul 140-173, Korea
    Web-site: www.2003IWET.org
    Email: schidr@hosp.sch.ac.kr


Jari Forsstrom (to the left), the founder of the Atuline virtual hospital
Helsinki Symposium on Clinical Informatics
    Place: Helsinki, Finland
    Time: March 13, 2003
    Organizer: Finska Läkaresällskapet r.f.
    General information: In lecture hall 2, Biomedicum, Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki
    More information: Johan Lundin, M.D. PhD
      Biomedical Informatics Research Group
      HUCH Clinical Research Institute
      P.O. Box 105
      FIN-00290 Helsinki, Finland
    Web-site: primed.info/clininfo

Third Annual Gastroenterology and Hepalogy: Viva la vida
    Place: Fajardo, Puerto Rico
    Time: March 19 - 22, 2003
    Organizer: John Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Sponsors
    General information: Location: New Cayo Largo Resort, Spa & Marina, Fajardo, Puerto Rico
    More information: Office of Continuing Medical Education
      Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
      Turner 20, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore
      Maryland 21205-2195, USA
    Email: cmenet@jhmi.edu


Näsinneula, Tampere, Finland
Tampereen Lääkäripäivät
    Place: Tampere, Finland
    Time: March 20 - 22, 2003
    More information: Kirsi Valli
      Duodecim
      Aaltosenkatu 27 - 29
      33500 Tampere, Finland
    Web-site: www.iki.fi/tlp
    Email: kirsi.valli@duodecim.fi

Today´s weather in Tampere:

2nd Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (KJSGE) 2003
    Place: Seoul, Korea
    Time: March 28 - 29, 2003
    Organizer: The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (KSGE) and Japan Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Society (JGES).
    General information: At the Grand Hilton Seoul
    More information: Secretariat of the 2nd KJSGE 2003
      INTERCOM Convention Services, Inc.
      10th Fl., Samick Lavied'or Bldg., 720-2
      Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-920, Korea
      Tel : 82-2-565-2435, 566-6339
      FAX : 82-2-565-2434, 3452-7292
    Web-site: www.kjsge.org
    Email: kjsge@intercom.co.kr

38th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver
    Place: Istanbul, Turkey
    Time: March 29 - April 2, 2003
    Organizer: EASL
    More information: Kenes International
      17, rue du Cendrier, PO Box 1726
      CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
      Tel: +41 22 908 04 88
      Fax: +41 22 732 28 50
    Web-site: www.easl.ch/easl2003/
    Email: easl2003@easl.ch