GI & Endoscopy

Lori Robbins, MD, will join Palmetto Digestive Health Specialists Sept. 3, the Moultrie News reports.

The American Board of Internal Medicine is in the process of developing a longitudinal assessment option for clinicians looking to maintain their certification.

Here are three updates from gastroenterology companies from the past week: 

Michael Lucey, MD, is the chief of the division of gastroenterology at the Madison-based University of Wisconsin's department of medicine.

The FDA approved Lumendi's DiLumen lk endolumenal interventional knife, which is a sterile, single-use disposable monopolar electrosurgical device.

David Chua, MD, is the director of the Chicago-based South Loop Endoscopy and Wellness Center.

Clinicians are discussing a myriad of ways to combat rising early-onset colorectal cancer rates, and while colonoscopy is the gold standard of diagnostic screening, the resource-heavy procedure could prove to be too taxing.

Kimberly A. Brown, MD, is the chief of gastroenterology at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.

Frank Wright, MD, joined Maryville, Tenn.-based Blount Memorial's staff and will see patients out of Smoky Mountain Gastroenterology, The Daily Times reports.

Four major gastroenterological societies denounced an article on duodenoscope sterilization published in The New York Times, stating that the article understates the value of the devices to patients and that they can't be removed from the marketplace as a result.