What you learned last year about the treatment of IBD is already out of date.
Have an idea for a new medical device, technology or service? Getting it to market is a complex, time-consuming process that requires analytical and management skills, great communication, collaboration and leadership, according to Virender Sharma, MD, AGAF, who shared lessons he’s learned as a physician innovator on Saturday at DDW® during a session sponsored by the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology.
The future of gastroenterology is enmeshed in politics. From the partisan battles that led to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to last week’s party-line approval of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by the House of Representatives, every gastroenterologist, practice and academic center is tied to politics.
International experts will discuss different approaches to IBD during pregnancy, and how recent data may affect treatment decisions during Sunday’s AGA Clinical Symposium The Pregnant Patient with IBD: Data for an International Consensus?!
Changes in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening guidelines have left many clinicians wondering what the best option is. On Tuesday, AGA is staging a ‘cage match’ session that will pit top experts in the field against one another to help DDW® attendees judge for themselves.
Burnout is more than growing tired of doing the same thing over and over. It’s a state of emotional exhaustion that results in depersonalized interactions with patients, colleagues, family and friends, according to Arthur DeCross, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, NY.
Until the advent of corticosteroids and colectomy, nearly a third of inpatients with ulcerative colitis died of their disease. Even with effective treatments available, challenges remain in the medical and surgical management of these patients.
A good pathologist can be a gastroenterologist’s best friend. A good GI pathologist, that is.
A panel of experts will discuss the evolving science and best practices for treating motility disorders on Sunday during the annual Josephine and Michael Camilleri, MD, Lecture — Motility Matters 2017: An Interactive Forum to Debate What Progress the Field Has Made in the Treatment of GI Motility Disorders.
Men and women are not created equal when it comes to GI disorders. Hormonal and anatomic differences play roles in disease risk and development. Even the endoscopist’s gender can make a difference.
