International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary

Association
International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) is a non-profit organization established in
1994 to focus on medical conditions and procedures related to the liver, pancreas and biliary tract.

Contents
History
World congress
Related associations
Regional associations
National chapters
See also
References
External links

History
The organisation traces its origin to International Biliary Association (IBA), which was founded in 1978
in San Francisco.[1] 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 Lund on 9–13 June 1986, with 600 nearly attendees.[2][3] These two organisations merged
to become the IHPBA in 1994.[4][5]

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: Bologna, Italy
1998: Madrid, Spain
2000: Brisbane, Australia
April 25–29, 2002: Tokyo, Japan[6]
2004: Washington, USA
2006
2008
 April 2010: Buenos Aires, Argentina [7]
July 1–5, 2012: Paris, France [8]
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.[9]

Related associations

Regional associations

Regional Associations currently affiliated with the IHPBA include:

Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) (http://www.ahpba.org),

incorporated in the United States in November 1994, holding its first regional Americas
Congress in 1997.[10]
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) (http://www.ehpba.net),
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,[11] Korea, Scandinavia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

See also
Hepato-biliary diseases
Pancreatic diseases

References
1. "IHPBA: history and purpose" (https://web.archive.org/web/20081223083922/http://www.ihp
ba.org/history-and-purpose.html). Archived from the original (http://www.ihpba.org/history-an
d-purpose.html) on 2008-12-23. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
2. Robin C. N. Williamson (1999). "The origins of the IHPBA" (https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS136
5-182X%2817%2930600-7). HPB. 1: 7–12. doi:10.1016/S1365-182X(17)30600-7 (https://do
i.org/10.1016%2FS1365-182X%2817%2930600-7).
 3. Stig Bengmark (2002). "The early days of HPB: A personal reminiscence" (https://www.ncbi.
nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2020542). HPB. 4 (3): 117–121.
doi:10.1080/136518202760388000 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F136518202760388000).
PMC 2020542 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2020542). PMID 18332937
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18332937).
4. "The proposed merge with IHBPA" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC242360
4). HPB Surgery. 3: 301–302. 1991. doi:10.1155/1991/71341 (https://doi.org/10.1155%2F19
91%2F71341). PMC 2423604 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423604).
5. Henry A. Pitt (2006). "International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association: who are we and
where are we going?" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2023894). HPB. 8 (4):
243–247. doi:10.1080/13651820600835967 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F136518206008359
67). PMC 2023894 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2023894).
PMID 18333134 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18333134).
6. "5th Congress, Tokyo" (https://web.archive.org/web/20111006043939/http://www.conventio
n.co.jp/ip/5thihpba/index.html). Archived from the original (http://www.convention.co.jp/ip/5thi
hpba/index.html) on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
7. "9th Congress, Buenos Aires" (http://www.ihpba-ba2010.com/).
8. "10th World Congress of the IHPBA, Paris 2012" (http://www.ihpba2012.com/).
9. World Congress (https://www.ihpba.org/19_World-Congress.html); International Hepato-
Pancreato-Biliary Association
10. "About AHPBA" (http://www.ahpba.org/).
11. "Gennaro Nuzzo nuovo presidente dei chirurghi epatobiliari italiani" (https://web.archive.org/
web/20110722044924/http://www.policlinicogemelli.it/area/?hw=5&s=348&id=2041) (in
Italian). Archived from the original (http://www.policlinicogemelli.it/area/?hw=5&s=348&id=2
041) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-01-11.

External links
Website (http://www.ihpba.org/)

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