GI & Endoscopy

Here are four updates on GI companies from the past week.

Rachna Shroff, MD, joined Tucson-based University of Arizona Cancer Center to serve as its gastrointestinal medical oncology chief. She will also serve as its Data and Safety Monitoring Board chair and as an associate professor.

More than half — 53 percent — of gastroenterologists are employed at hospitals or other healthcare organizations, according to the Medscape Gastroenterologist Compensation Report 2018.

HyGIeaCare Prep offers effective same-day salvage colonic irrigation for patients with poor oral preparation, according to a poster that will be presented at Digestive Disease Week in Washington, D.C., between June 2 and 5.

A study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, examined the difference in malignant and benign tumor creation.

The American Gastroenterological Association created its IBD Parenthood Project Working Group to create a standardized treatment pathway for female patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Edward Schultheiss, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Salem (Ore.) Gastroenterology.

Apollo Endosurgery enrolled the first patient in a multi-center randomized controlled trial endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty using Apollo's OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Cory Halliburton, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Colchester-based Vermont Gastroenterology.

Takeda reported net revenues of $1.77 trillion yen ($16.15 billion) for fiscal year 2017.