Patrick S. Kamath, MD, DM, MBBS, will define acute-on-chronic liver failure and review its history and scope during Monday’s AASLD State-of-the-Art Lecture Acute on Chronic Liver Failure: Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Approach.
Gastroenterologists can play an important role in the opioid epidemic, according to Eva Szigethy, MD, PhD. She weighs in on how GIs can help their patients as she previews Monday’s AGA Clinical Symposium Impact of America’s Opioid Epidemic on the Practice of Gastroenterology.
Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF, FASGE, will co-moderate Monday’s ASGE Clinical Symposium Pancreatic Duct Endotherapy: Caution or Full Steam Ahead, which will review the current science and best practices for endotherapy in pancreatitis treatment.
Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc, will deliver “Challenges in Screening for NAFLD (Including At-Risk Populations)” during Clinical Challenges in Adult and Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease on Monday.
Joanne A.P. Wilson, MD, FACP, AGAF, has attended every DDW conference since 1978, except 1980.
You probably learned in grade school that Washington, D.C., is home to the White House and runs along the Potomac River, but did you know the nation’s capital was built on a swamp?
DDW Daily News Video Exclusive: Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, AGAF, discusses the topics for Sunday’s AGA Clinical Symposium How to Manage Difficult Gastroenterology Consultations.
Outgoing ASGE President Karen L. Woods, MD, FASGE, addressed hot button issues as part of her year-in-review during Saturday’s Presidential Plenary. Steven A. Edmundowicz, MD, FASGE, also was inaugurated as ASGE’s next president.
If you were asked to make a list of words describing a surgeon, you may include words like skilled and intelligent. But odds are the word “altruistic” didn’t make your list, and American Board of Surgery Executive Director Jo Buyske, MD, FACS, thinks that’s a shame. Her SSAT Maja and Frank G. Moody State-of-the-Art Lecture on Monday will challenge surgeons to leverage their skills to give back.
Clinicians who want to improve treatment for IBS and IBD have a simple charge: Improve their patient communication skills. That was the key message from Douglas Drossman, MD, during Saturday’s AGA Postgraduate Course Luncheon Breakout Session Maximizing the Patient-Provider Relationship Using Effective Communication Skills for IBD and/or IBS.
