GI & Endoscopy

  New York City-based Northwell Health has launched a text and email program to reduce no-show rates for colonoscopies scheduled at two hospitals.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger and Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network opened a $72 million hospital in Orwigsburg, Pa., the Pennsylvania Business Report reports.

Somerset, Ky.-based Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital acquired the private practices of Khalid Iqbal, MD, and Anjum Iqbal, MD, and rebranded them under the Lake Cumberland moniker, the Commonwealth Journal reports.

Sushovan Guha, MD, PhD, is a gastroenterologist and physician executive director at Banner Digestive Diseases Institute in Phoenix. He shared his thoughts on the uses of artificial intelligence in gastroenterology with Becker's ASC Review.

Private equity investors pivoted to gastroenterology hard in 2019, with 13 deals taking place in the year so far.

Researchers from Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina identified a pathway for colorectal cancer in mice, according to an article in Gastroenterology.

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  Here are 11 GI leaders Becker's ASC Review featured in November:

Peter Mannon, MD, will join Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center's department of internal medicine as chief of gastroenterology and hepatology.

Kuldeep Singh, MD, joined Baltimore-based Mercy Medical Center with plans to establish and open The Maryland Bariatric Center at Mercy in January 2020.