South African GASTROENTEROLOGY Review | Volume 17 Issue 3 2019

THE SOUTH AFRICAN GASTROENTEROLOGY REVIEW 2019 | ISSUE 3 | 40 GASTROENTEROLOGY FOUNDATION Best Oral Clinical Myint Tun AIDS Perineum Best Oral Scientific Janri Geldenhuys Evaluation of a molecular technique to describe gut microbial diversity in a diagnostic laboratory Best Mini Oral Clinical Jean-Jacques Kruger presented by Sandie Thomson The prevalence and characteristics of colorectal polyps in patients undergoing colonoscopy at Groote Schuur Hospital Gastro Foundation best work by a Fellow Wamda Abuelhassan The Utility of APRI and FIB-4 Scores in Detecting Liver Fibrosis in Hepatitis C Patients at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, South Africa Solly Marks Scholarship Ernst Fredericks Serum cytokines in IBD as a measure of treatment response in IBD Gastro Foundation Scholarship Ruth B Jali Faculty of Health Sciences at Witwatersrand University Master of Science degree in Medicine (Chemical Pathology) The Association of the Patatin-Like Phospholipase Domain Containing 3 (I148M), Apolipoprotein CIII (T455C and C482T) and the Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein (G493T) Gene Polymorphisms with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the South African Black Population Prizes and Scholarships awarded at SAGES 2019 Bilal Bobat and Ruth Jali Wamda Abuelhassan and Jan van Zyl Marguerite Barnard Abbott Award Marguerite Barnard University of Pretoria, Department of General Surgery Investigating metformin’s apoptotic effect on clinically staged African pancreatic cancer cells SAGES Gold Cerficate Stephen Grobler For tireless dedication toward SAGES and Gastroenterology in South Africa