Shivakumar Vignesh, MD, FASGE, AGAF, discusses efforts to help instructors and faculty become better endoscopy trainers in order to reduce variations in endoscopic skill development in trainees.
Attend Monday’s AGA Presidential Plenary session to hear the best GI research and clinical science through a mix of state-of-the-art lectures and abstract presentations. The session also will feature a presidential address by David A. Lieberman, MD, AGAF.
For the fourth consecutive year, DDW has awarded 20 Basic Science Travel Awards to young researchers. The award recipients discussed their research Saturday afternoon during a Basic Science Quick Shots session.
Drug-induced liver injury is seen by every practicing gastroenterologist, not just liver specialists, according to Robert J. Fontana, MD, FAASLD, who will moderate Monday’s AASLD State-of-the-Art Lecture “Drug-Induced Liver Injury in the GI Practice.”
DDW is underway! See attendees sporting purple for World IBD Day, photos of the Exhibit Hall opening and this year’s sessions. Share your photos online using the hashtag #DDW19.
“I believe we’re facing a crisis in medical education on two levels,” says Brian Davis, MD, FACS, FASGE. See what he means in Monday’s session “Video Coaching and Certification to Enable Competency Based Surgical Education.”
Before DDW draws to a close, be sure to visit the ASGE MarketPlace in the Sails Pavilion on the upper level of the San Diego Convention Center.
Varices and variceal hemorrhage are important and challenging complications that lead to decreased survival in patients with cirrhosis. Their proper management will lead to improvement in survival, according to presenters in Monday’s AASLD Clinical Symposium “Update on the Management of Gastroesophageal Varices.”
Flavio Rocha, MD, will moderate Monday’s SSAT and AHPBA Joint Symposium “Technical and Oncological Issues in Major HPB Surgery: Back to the Basics!” The session’s five presenters will discuss the finer points of hepatopancreatobiliary surgery that can take years to learn.
As Monday’s AASLD State-of-the-Art “New Hope for HCC” lecturer Laura Kulik, MD, notes, “15 years ago, an hour on the treatment of liver cancer would have been very difficult.” But now, a one-hour update is not only possible, but important for gastroenterologists.
