GI & Endoscopy

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

Progenity hired Eric d'Esparbes to serve as senior vice president and CFO.

Andrew Y. Wang, MD, is section chief of interventional endoscopy at the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia's division of gastroenterology and hepatology.

Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, gastroenterology chair at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine, became the 114th president of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute at Digestive Disease Week 2019, May 18-21 in San Diego.

  New technology will spur ASC growth, according to Pamela Isabel, COO of Woodholme Gastroenterology Associates, which operates endoscopy centers and GI practices in the Baltimore area.

Silver Spring, Md.-based Capital Digestive Care is building a standalone office in Rockville, Md., to house an HyGIeaCare system.

Increasing early-onset colorectal cancer rates around the world are befuddling researchers as they struggle to identify what's causing the spikes.

Ned Snyder, MD, is chief of gastroenterology at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in the Greater Houston area.

Takeda pledged to donate $1 billion yen ($9.2 million) over five years to the Global Fund's Sixth Replenishment over the next five years, the first private sector company to do so.

Robert C. Kurtz, MD, a gastroenterologist who has practiced at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for over 40 years, is a former chairman of the American Gastroenterological Association’s section on gastrointestinal oncology and researches early detection of…