GI & Endoscopy

Gastroenterologist Wendy Z. Davis, MD, has joined Cornerstone Health Care in High Point, N.C., according to a news release (pdf).

Gastroenterologist Tom Sherman, MD, has won one of the two open seats in New Hampshire's Rockingham County state representative District 24 race, according to a Seacoast Online report.

ASC management and development company AmSurg Corp. will build a gastroenterology center in London, according to a Nashville Post report.

The results of a new study reveal a majority of patients on liver transplant waitlists who die received offers of donated livers that were declined prior to death, according to a news release.

The American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy are asking physicians to complete the Relative Value Update Committee's surveys, according to an AGA news brief written by Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF.

Gastroenterologist AnnMarie Huysman Liapakis, MD, has joined Yale Medical Group in New Haven, Conn., according to the group's website.

General surgeon Marcus Free, MD, has joined Michigan's Borgess Lee Medical Group, according to a news release.

Gastroenterologist Eslam Ali, MD, has joined the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., according to a Daily Reflector report.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has announced it has opened a new endoscopy center, according to a news release.

The results of a new study show aspirin therapy may reduce the likelihood of colon cancer killing patients whose tumors have a specific gene mutation, according to a news release.