Imagine yourself eating delectable street tacos and fresh off-the-boat seafood. Hungry yet? Try one (or more) of these San Diego restaurants, recommended by fellow DDW® attendees via Twitter.
Hear how hepatitis B may be a curable disease in the next decade during Sunday’s AASLD State-of-the-Art Lecture “On the Horizon for Hepatitis B.” Robert G. Gish, MD, FAASLD, will moderate the session.
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.
Once again at DDW®, ASGE has partnered with international gastroenterology societies to plan several joint sessions that showcase endoscopic advances around the world.
“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.”
This year, the SSAT International Relations Committee has planned two international sessions, one devoted to a clinical conundrum and one devoted to medical and surgical education topics, says Alberto R. Ferreres, MD, PhD.
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.
SSAT is offering a full slate of original research at DDW® across nine Quick Shot sessions. Each 90-minute session will showcase 10 to 15 unique studies — more than 100 presentations across all of the Quick Shot sessions, says Michael G. House, MD, FACS.
During DDW® 2019, be sure to visit the American Gastroenterological Association’s new Resource Center in the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center. AGA has combined its popular Exhibit Hall booth and AGA Store into a comprehensive location.
Whitney A. Goering, MD, was a server at restaurant for her first job. Find out how that helped her as a residency physician and other tidbits about this SSAT speaker at #DDW19.
