The 2016 First Shanghai Tongji Forum for Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Esophageal diseases and the Second Training Class for Endoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment Technology of Esophageal diseases were held in Tongji Hospital of Tongji University on the 11th of November, 2016. Experts in the fields of Digestive Medicine and Digestive Endoscopy from home and abroad gathered together to explore the development of the Endoscopic Basic Science of Esophageal diseases, the application of the Endoscopic diagnosis and treatment technology and the needs for cooperation in many clinical fields.

Eighteen reports were made in six lecture halls during the two-day Forum. Meanwhile, endoscopic operations were demonstrated, real-time visual broadcasts of which were available to the participants of the forum. The success of the forum was attributable to the cross-disciplinary integration of digestive endoscopy science, digestive medicine, esophageal surgery, intervention science and imaging science, which would help clinicians work with more focus and in a more organized way, thus laying the basis for the precise treatment of esophageal disease. Meanwhile, it also went all out to promote the new technologies and methods of endoscopic diagnosis for the treatment of esophageal diseases and to look for young talents in order to provide assistance for the sustainable development of digestive endoscopy.

The forum was hosted by Tongji Hospital of Tongji University, and supported by Shanghai Society of Endoscopy, the Professional Committee of Esophageal Varicose Veins Treatment of Shanghai Medical Association and the Digestive Endoscopic Esophageal diseases Collaboration Group of Chinese Medical Association.