GI & Endoscopy

New York City-based Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center named Anil Rustgi, MD, director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, pending trustee approval.

Two New Orleans-area health providers found great success raising their colorectal cancer screening rates, The Times-Picayune reports.

Research published in JAMA Network Open detailed how patients over 50 felt about forgoing colonoscopies.

Richard Curtis, MD, is Newton, Mass.-based Newton-Wellesley Hospital's gastroenterology division chief.

The American Gastroenterological Association partnered with telemedicine company SupportedPatient to provide integrated care models to community-based practices.

The R. Robert and Sally D. Funderburg Charitable Trust and The Funderburg Foundation donated $1 million to the AGA Research Foundation to permanently fund a gastric cancer-focused research award.

OncLive and Washington, D.C.-based The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown University recognized the 2018 Luminary Awards in GI Cancers honorees.

Marquis Who's Who profiled Roswell-based Eastern New Mexico Medical Center's gastroenterology chief Daniel Ridout III, MD.

David Rubin, MD, is the section chief of gastroenterology at UChicago Medicine.

Here are five gastroenterologists recently featured in the news: