International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) is a

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organization established in 1994 to focus on medical conditions and procedures related to the

liver The liver is a major Organ (anatomy), organ only found in vertebrates which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the Protein biosynthesis, synthesis of proteins and biochemicals necessary for ...

pancreas The pancreas is an organ of the digestive system and endocrine system of vertebrates. In humans, it is located in the abdomen behind the stomach and functions as a gland. The pancreas is a mixed or heterocrine gland, i.e. it has both an end ...

and

biliary tract The biliary tract, (biliary tree or biliary system) refers to the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, and how they work together to make, store and secrete bile. Bile consists of water, electrolytes, bile acids, cholesterol, phospholipids and co ...

History

The organisation traces its origin to International Biliary Association (IBA), which was founded in 1978 in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

. The IBA became the International Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Association (IHBPA) and a World Association of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery (WAHPBS) was also formed with the first meeting at

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on 9–13 June 1986, with 600 nearly attendees. These two organisations merged to become the IHPBA in 1994. In 1999 the IHPBA established the journal ''HPB''. The organisation was incorporated in the United States in June 2001, and it established the Warren Research Fellowship in the same year.

World congress

Since the first meeting of the merged IHPBA in 1994, the Congresses have been held even years. * June 1994: Boston, USA * 1996:

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, Italy * 1998:

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, Spain * 2000:

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, Australia * April 25–29, 2002:

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

, Japan * 2004:

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, USA * 2006 * 2008 * April 2010:

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, Argentina * July 1–5, 2012:

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, France * 11th World Congress - Seoul, Korea - March 22 - 27, 2014 * 12th World Congress - Sao Paulo, Brazil - April 20 - 23, 2016 * 13th World Congress - Geneva, Switzerland - September 4 - 7, 2018 * Virtual Congress - November 27 - 29 2020 * Future meetings are planned for 2022 and 2024.

Related associations

Regional associations

Regional Associations currently affiliated with the IHPBA include:
Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA)
incorporated in the United States in November 1994, holding its first regional Americas Congress in 1997. * Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA), incorporated in Hong Kong, its predecessor being the Asian Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery which held regional congresses in Asia from 1991.
European Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (EHPBA)
incorporated in Germany in 2005, its predecessor being the European Chapter of the IHPBA, initiated European Congresses in the odd years in 1995.

National chapters

National Chapters variably affiliated with the IHPBA have existed in Argentina, Greece, Italy, Japan, and the United States for a number of years. National Chapters have emerged in Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, Scandinavia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.

References

External links

Website
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