GI & Endoscopy

Thomas Jefferson University has announced Scott Waldman, MD, PhD, a member of Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, has been awarded a Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement grant to help advance a molecular diagnostic test for colon cancer into commercialization, according to a…

Gastroenterologist Ramaswamaiah Chandrasekhara, MD, has joined Central Florida Health Care, according to a The Ledger report.

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia has announced it has opened a new Barrett's esophagus treatment center, according to a news release.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has published its 2011 Year in Review report.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is set to break ground on a new gastrointestinal endoscopy training center in Downers Grove, Ill., according to a Downers Grove Reporter report.

Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., has announced it is now offering Barrett's esophagus, according to a news release.

Medscape has published the "Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results." The report included data gathered in February from more than 24,000 physicians in the United States across 25 specialties. Of these respondents, 2 percent were in gastroenterology.

Son Nguyen, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, is working to bring awareness of the Hepatitis B virus to the local Vietnamese community, according to a WDSU report.

A new study published in Cancer indicates people of higher socioeconomic status typically choose endoscopic colorectal cancer screening over home-based fecal occult blood test, according to the abstract of the study and Reuters report.

Gastroenterologist Jerome Craig Cohen, MD, has been re-elected speaker of the Medical Society of the State of New York, according to a news release.