Dear fellow academic members!

On behalf of the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention (SGI), it is a great honor and pleasure to invite you to “The 15^th Annual meeting of Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention (SGI 2022)” which will be held in Incheon, Korea on October 14 and 15, 2022.

Our society is a unique multidisciplinary society founded to encourage and facilitate the clinical and scientific collaborations between radiologists, surgeons and gastroenterologists. The goal of our society is to build a comprehensive GI intervention network among endoscopists, interventional radiologists and gastrointestinal surgeons to provide a platform for multidisciplinary collaboration. We hope to provide a network where experts can advance, inform, share, and globalize technological innovations of each specialty. The society aims to support and educate young brilliant doctors in the early stages of their career as a specialist and guide their ways into the global stage. Final and foremost, our will set an example showcasing the benefits of multi-disciplinary collaboration in science, education and clinical practice. To achieve these goals, we hold an International Academic Conference once a year, and publish quarterly an academic journal titled the ‘International Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention (IJGII)’.

Since the 1^st conference held in 2007, the society has been holding an academic conference once a year. In 2018, the 12^th conference was held, for the first time outside of South Korea, in Nanjing, China. After the successful meeting in China, we have decided to alternate the host country between Korea and other countries. The 14^th academic conference was scheduled to be held in Hydrabad, India in 2020. Unfortunately, the conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was substituted with a small group meeting in Korea. And we look forward to hosting SGI abroad again soon.

In 2022, the global situation is getting better and the travel conditions are expected to gradually improve, but the future situation cannot be guaranteed yet. As such, committee is preparing an exciting conference in HYBRID way, which will allow for both physical and online participation of the attendee.
The theme of this year conference is “Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, Enjoy the Collaboration and Innovation in GI Intervention!”, and we invite internationally renowned scholars to assist you in your research and patient care. We believe this symposium will be a great platform to connect colleagues together and the valuable time to share and discuss various ideas and issues on digestive disease to leap forward human care from health care.

We look forward for to your active participation.

Sincerely yours,

Thank you.