Stomach and Small Bowel Disorders
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Gain access to hundreds of hours of recorded sessions from Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2019 and earn CME credits with DDW On Demand. Read more
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. Read more
Once again at DDW®, ASGE has partnered with international gastroenterology societies to plan several joint sessions that showcase endoscopic advances around the world. Read more
SSAT international program to highlight issues that defy boundaries
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. Read more
AGA offers dedicated programming for trainees and early career GIs
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. Read more
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. Read more
SSAT hands-on courses focus on transanal endoscopic surgery and G-POEM
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. Read more
During Tuesday’s SSAT Joint Symposium with the International Society for Digestive Surgery, five experts will examine the appropriate use of minimally invasive surgery in managing cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. The two-hour morning symposium is titled Minimally Invasive Frontier in GI Surgery. Read more
With Sunday Lecture, Funderburg Award Celebrates 25-year anniversary of advancing gastric cancer research
In 1991, little was known about the stomach beyond its obvious role as a low pH vessel that helped kick off the process of digestion. Gastric cancer had plummeted from the number one form of cancer in 1900 to a much less common, but still deadly disease, at least in the U.S. Then, in 1992, […] Read more
Experts will explore challenges of recalcitrant H. pylori treatment in annual Peura Lecture
Five experts will discuss optimized treatment strategies for Helicobacter pylori infection during the annual Kristin and David Peura, MD, Lecture, Saturday afternoon. The 90-minute AGA Clinical Symposium is titled Help! I Can’t Get Rid of H. Pylori. “While it’s true that H. pylori is more prevalent outside... Read more