GI & Endoscopy

Covenant Surgical Partners entered into a partnership with Phoenix-based Arizona Centers for Digestive Health, adding 11 practices to its portfolio.

David Lieberman, MD, is the gastroenterology department chief at Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University. He has served in the role since 1998.

After spending time in New Mexico, Srinivas Gunturu, MD, will move to Georgia to join Albany-based Phoebe Gastroenterology, the Albany Herald reports.

Michael McCabe, MD, joined Aurora, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology July 15.

Becker's ASC Review reported on news featuring eight gastroenterologists:

Ronnie Fass, MD, is the gastroenterology division director of Cleveland-based MetroHealth System.

Metastatic colorectal care patients offered insights into clinician care in a survey presented at the 2019 World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, July 3-6 in Barcelona, Spain, Medscape reports.

Gastroenterology remains a sought after and high earning specialty, according to the Merritt Hawkins 2019 review of physician and advanced practitioner recruiting incentives.

As the dog days of summer inch ever closer, here are some of the biggest stories and trends that have defined gastroenterology through the first half 2019. 

Medical diagnostics company Check-Cap completed its post-CE approval study, receiving "positive" final results concerning C-Scan, a preparation-free colonoscopy alternative.