Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) continues to be one of the hottest topics at DDW®. This year, World IBD Day — Sunday, May 19 — falls during the meeting, giving AGA another reason to celebrate the best IBD research. See what programming is planned for the day and join AGA for a reception Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on the Center Terrace.
An AGA Postgraduate Course breakout session on ergonomics Saturday afternoon included tips for optimal room design and strategies to minimize musculoskeletal injury during endoscopy. The session was led by Katherine S. Garman, MD, AGAF, and Amandeep K. Shergill, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Three difficult questions in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology are up for debate during Sunday’s “Battle of the Heavyweights: Controversies in Clinical Practice,” co-moderated by Joseph K. Lim, MD, AGAF.
Functional gastrointestinal disorders have long been among the most common conditions diagnosed by gastroenterologists. A panel of three experts will discuss the current science and review best practices during Monday’s AGA Institute-Rome Foundation Lectureship, titled “Making Treatment Choices for Functional GI Disorders.”
The gut microbiome is as much an organ as the liver, pancreas, intestine or any other organ along the GI tract, says Eugene B. Chang, MD, AGAF, who will moderate Monday’s AGA symposium “Microbiome Diagnostics, Prognostics and Personalized Medicine.”
AGA Attendee Spotlight Bharati Kochar, MD, MSCR, shares her favorite things about San Diego, how working in the gastroenterology field has impacted and who she’d like to be mentored by at #DDW19.
DDW® Council Chair Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF, FASGE, welcomes attendees to San Diego and #DDW19 — the 50th anniversary of the meeting. Find out what’s new this year and reflect on 50 years of excellence.
“It’s more important than ever for clinicians to have a firm grasp on the business aspects of their clinical practices,” says Sunday morning’s AGA “The Business of Medicine” Symposium Chair David Kunkel, MD.
Thanks to a new commitee structure, the AGA International Committee has been able to expand its global educational efforts at #DDW19. Read about the additional offerings at this year’s meeting from Gilaad Kaplan, MD, MPH, AGAF, and Linda Rabeneck, MD, MPH.
“In the last few years, newer pharmacological agents have been added to the armamentarium of therapies for the management of ulcerative colitis,” says Shahnaz Sultan, MD, MHSc, AGAF. Hear more in Monday’s symposium “2019 AGA Guideline Highlights: Probiotics, Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Ulcerative Colitis and More.”
