GI & Endoscopy

Conmed's board will soon be without an independent director, as Dirk Kuyper submitted his resignation notice, effective Aug. 1.

The average annual pay for a gastroenterologist practicing in the U.S. is $347,500, according to jobseeker website ZipRecruiter.

  Naga P. Chalasani, MD, is the chief of the gastroenterology and hepatology division at the Indianapolis-based Indiana University School of Medicine.

Todos Medical wants to follow in the competition's footsteps in developing and promoting its blood-based colorectal cancer test, CEO Herman Weiss, MD, said in an update on the state of the company at a conference in Los Angeles.

At the halfway point of the year, private equity investment is still making inroads into gastroenterology. But summer is heating up and with it could come a swell of investment, if momentum continues as planned.

The FDA issued a warning after a patient died after undergoing a fecal microbiota transplant procedure.

Here are 12 GI-focused ASCs opened or announced in the first half of the year:

Edward Lebovics, MD, is the chief of the gastroenterology and hepatobiliary disease division at the Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center.

Here are five of the top-read stories on Becker's ASC Review this week:

Kenneth Forde, MD, 85, died of heart failure at his home in Scarborough, N.Y., June 2, the New York Times reports.