DDW® Council Chair Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF, FASGE, welcomes attendees to San Diego and #DDW19 — the 50th anniversary of the meeting. Find out what’s new this year and reflect on 50 years of excellence.
“It’s more important than ever for clinicians to have a firm grasp on the business aspects of their clinical practices,” says Sunday morning’s AGA “The Business of Medicine” Symposium Chair David Kunkel, MD.
ASGE-member trainees are invited to Saturday’s “ASGE Fellows Networking Session” for advice and instruction on a number of issues of interest to young physicians. Frank Gress, MD, FASGE, shares more about this great opportunity to network.
Diversity is a must-have tool to improve outcomes for patients, providers and all stakeholders in health care, says Marc A. Nivet, EdD, MBA, who will present the annual “SSAT Doris and John L. Cameron Guest Oration” on Sunday.
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.
