GI & Endoscopy

Brian Boulay, MD, is the interim division chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.

Pinehurst (N.C.) Medical Clinic and Pinehurst Surgical physicians are collaborating on two 40,000-square-foot buildings to improve access to care, ThePilot.com reports.

Here are five of the most-read gastroenterology articles on Becker's ASC Review this week:

Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Health Network entered into a joint venture with Allentown-based Eastern Pennsylvania Gastroenterology and Liver Specialists to build two new outpatient endoscopy centers.

Estella M. Alonso, MD, is medical director of the Siragusa Transplantation Center at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Here are four updates from gastroenterology companies and practices from the past week:

A hospital in Oklahoma used contaminated gastroscopes on about 1,000 patients in recent months, Reuters reports.

The following gastroenterologists were recently featured in Becker's ASC Review.

Sumalatha Satoor, MD, has joined Baptist Health Medical Group Gastroenterology in Madisonville, Ky., according to SurfKY News

A study published in Plos One found Exact Sciences' Cologuard was less effective and more costly than other CMS-reimbursed screening strategies.