GI & Endoscopy

High gastroenterology private equity activity will continue in 2019, according to Kerri Zelensek, McGuireWoods associate, and Tom Zahn, partner at McGuireWoods. Mr. Zahn and Ms. Zelensek attended the 6th Annual Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity and Finance Conference, February…

Nadim G. Haddad, MD, is the physician executive director and regional chief of the gastroenterology department at Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

Rohan Jeyarajah, MD, was appointed as Fort Worth, Texas-based TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine's first academic chair of surgery.

Four GI physicians were featured in the news this past week:

Rajesh N. Keswani, MD, is Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center's medical director of quality.

Somerset, Ky.-based Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital acquired Cumberland Gastroenterology in Somerset, the Commonwealth Journal reports.

New York City-based NYU Langone Hospital added Sam Serouya, MD, to its Brooklyn location, Brooklyn Paper reports.

Boston-based Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center opened the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center in response to elevated CRC rates in young adults.

Here are the five most-read gastroenterology articles on Becker's ASC Review for the week of Feb. 28 through March 6.

Theodore A DeCosta, MD, recently opened The Gastro Center in West Orange, N.J.