15 gastroenterologists making headlines this month

Here are 15 gastroenterologists who made headlines in October.

Biotechnology company Synthetics Biologics expanded its Irritable Bowel Syndrome Clinical Advisory Board with the appointment of four GI physicians. The new advisory board members include:

•    William Chey, MD, director of the GI Physiology Laboratory and co-director of the Michigan Bowel Control Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
•    Gail M. Corner, MD, a board-certified gastroenterologist and hepatologist with experience in the pharmaceutical industry
•    Anthony J. Lembo, MD, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the GI Motility Laboratory at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both in Boston
•    Philip Schoenfeld, MD, MSED, MSc, professor of medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and director of the university's Gastrointestinal Epidemiology Training Program

St. Louis-based independent physician group Esse Health has added the practice Digestive Disease Specialists, which includes:

•    Eldad Bialecki, MD
•    Tariq Hassan, MD
•    David Landau, MD
•    Gary Koenig, MD
•    Kishore Magnaty, MD
•    Robert Stoffa, MD

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and Illinois Gastroenterology Group in Elgin partnered to create an intensive medical home program focused on Crohn's disease. Illinois Gastroenterology Group physician Lawrence Kosinski, MD, MBA, discussed the partnership in a news release.

Keith L. Obstein, MD, and Richard M. Peek Jr., MD, and biomedical engineering professor Robert L. Galloway, PhD, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., will serve as co-investigators of a project to develop a magnetic capsule endoscope for colonoscopy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Daniel J. Pambianco, MD, will present the abstract "A Phase IIb Study Comparing the Safety and Efficacy of Remimazolam and Midazolam in Colonoscopy" at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting.

GreeneStone Healthcare, based in Ontario, Canada, will sell its endoscopy division for C$1.25 million to Jaintheelal Parekh Medicine Professional Corporation, owned by Jay Parekh, MD.

Shivakumar Vignesh, MD, has been named the chief of the gastroenterology and hepatology division at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York.

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