GI & Endoscopy

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy appointed Barbara Connell as its CEO effective Jan. 1, 2019.

Nicholas Inverso, MD, will practice out of Evangelical Community Hospital's Lewisburg, Pa.-based practice, effective Jan. 14, 2019, NorthcentralPA.com reports.

Here are three updates on GI companies from the past week:

Larry Miller, MD, is the gatreoenterology chief at the Hempstead, N.Y.-based Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

The family of a woman who died after a procedure at Somerset, Ky.-based Cumberland Gastroenterology was awarded more than $1.6 million in a jury verdict delivered Nov. 29, The Daily Independent reports.

Olympus Medical Systems Co., and former Olympus executive Hisao Yabe both pled guilty to failing to report adverse events related to infections connected to Olympus' duodenoscopes.

Bausch Health plans to boost its gastroenterology arm by acquiring select assets of Synergy Pharmaceuticals.

The FDA found higher than expected contamination rates after duodenoscope reprocessing, to the extent that up to 3 percent of scopes were considered "reprocessing failures."

The Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation awarded Sherman Prizes to David G. Binion, MD, Jean-Frederic Colombel, MD, and Amy L. Lightner, MD.

Four internists filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the American Board of Internal Medicine was performing monopolistic actions related to ABIM's maintenance of certification exams, Medscape reports.