GI & Endoscopy

The American Gastroenterological Association appointed four new governing board members, including a new president.

Chinese researchers discovered adenomas and advanced adenomas were missed more frequently by colonoscopies than previously reported, Medpage Today reports.

James M. Scheiman, MD, is the gastroenterology and hepatology chief at the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System.

A prospective study in The American Journal of Gastroenterology evaluated which colonoscopy bowel preps are best tolerated and most effective.

Bethlehem Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network absorbed and rebranded Sellersville, Pa.-based Bux-mont Gastroenterology, Lehigh Valley Business reports.

Ishaan Kalha, MD, is the gastroenterology division chief at Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern Medical.

Here are four gastroenterologists in the news this week:

Spokane (Wash.) Digestive Center is leaning fully into Washington State's new WAHealthCareCompare website as it embraces price transparency.

Where telemedicine is proving essential in other specialties, it's yet to catch on in gastroenterology, according to an editorial in The Lancet.

Santa Nandi, MD, plans to move her private practice March 12 to another Hicksville, N.Y. location.