Carlos Pellegrini re-elected chair of Digestive Disease Council

Carlos Pellegrini, the Henry N. Harkins professor and chair of surgery, has been re-elected chair of the Digestive Disease Council. The council oversees Digestive Disease Week, the annual meeting of physicians and researchers in gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery.

Pellegrini is the first person to be re-elected chair of the Digestive Disease Council. He will serve a three-year term.

The council represents the four academic societies that sponsor Digestive Disease Week: the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Surgery, and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.

Digestive Disease Week is scheduled for May 14-19, 2005, in Chicago. About 14,000 people are expected to attend the event, which will include about 5,000 abstracts and hundreds of lectures.