SSAT’s educational programming continues Monday with more than two dozen sessions, including a Clinical Ward Rounds session and two GI Surgery Debates. Vic Velanovich, MD, shares more.
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.
Once again at DDW®, ASGE has partnered with international gastroenterology societies to plan several joint sessions that showcase endoscopic advances around the world.
Avinash G. Ketwaroo, MD, walks through sessions designed to meet the unique needs of DDW® attendees in the early stages of their careers in gastrointestinal medicine.
Learn new endoscopic surgical techniques during two SSAT concurrent hands-on courses — “Small Bowel, Abdominal Wall, Hernia and Colorectal” and “Esophagus & Gastric” on Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19 — led by course directors Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS, and Michael B. Ujiki, MD.
Use the Colorectal Diseases Track to find CRC sessions taking place at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2019.
Colonoscopy, a dreaded, but highly recommended procedure that helps detect and prevent colorectal cancer (CRC), is typically not something to worry about until your 50s.
Rectal cancer requires a multidisciplinary care team because it is such a complex disease, according to Evie H. Carchman, MD, a member of the SSAT Research Committee. In this DDW Daily News video exclusive, Dr. Carchman discusses variables affecting patient care, several ongoing treatment debates and future treatment directions for rectal cancer.
Andrew Stong, MD, will present “Per-Oral Pyloromyotomy (POP) for Medically Refractory Post-Surgical Gastroparesis” during Saturday’s SSAT Residents and Fellows Research Conference and Sunday’s SSAT Presidential Plenary II.
When developing programming for DDW® 2018, the SSAT Program Committee aimed to create a broad array of options to meet the demands of society members and DDW attendees of all interests and skill levels, according to SSAT Program Committee Chair Vic Velanovich, MD.
