Morgan City, La.-based Ochsner St. Mary Hospital added a gastroenterology service line, with Lauren Bernuchaux, MSN, APRN, and Brooke Gautreaux, MSN, APRN, beginning to see patients starting May 5. According to a May 4 news release, the providers will see…
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Warqaa Akram, MD, a surgeon with ECU Health Cancer Care, performed the first colorectal procedures using the da Vinci Single Port system in North Carolina. The robotic platform allows surgeons to perform complex colorectal procedures with a single incision. Traditional…
Global real estate investment manager BGO has acquired two endoscopy surgery center properties in Florida that are leased to United Digestive. Currency Circle Surgery Center in Lake Mary, Fla., and Wellness Avenue Surgery Center in Orange City, Fla., are 100%…
John Inadomi, MD, was inducted into the Association of American Physicians during its annual scientific meeting in Chicago. Established in 1885, the AAP is an elected society recognizing physician-scientists for contributions to research and patient care, according to a May…
Nearly 300 ASCs were included on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers” list for colonoscopy and endoscopy, with more than 40 in the Midwest. The ratings evaluated 17 types of episodes of care grouped into four specialty…
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Cleveland Clinic Weston (Fla.) Hospital has added Sonja Olsen, MD, according to a May 1 report from South Florida Hospital News. Dr. Olsen is a gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist specialist. She practiced transplant hepatology in New York and Florida prior…
Tri-Cities Gastroenterology, a GI practice with five locations in Tennessee, has suffered a data breach, according to an April 30 report from Claim Depot. The breach occurred on or about Dec. 11, 2025, when an unauthorized third-party removed files from…
Nashville, Tenn.-based One GI has partnered with Oshi Health to expand access to virtual gastrointestinal care through Oshi’s access program. The partnership allows One GI practices to tap Oshi Health’s advanced practice providers as dedicated, full-time virtual staff to extend…
Researchers at Worcester-based UMass Chan Medical School tested a real-time AI tool to diagnose cholangiocarcinoma in the first in-human trial of its kind. The Smart-AI trial, led by Neil Marya, MD, evaluated the tool during live procedures in 41 patients…
Northwestern Medicine has opened a $15 million Center for Advanced Endoscopy at its Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill., a Chicago suburb, according to an April 30 news release. The 20,000-square-foot center is led by Amrita Sethi, MD, an internationally…