GI & Endoscopy

Brennan Spiegel, MD, is a gastroenterologist and the director of Health Services Research at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Curriculum vitaes are among the first things hospitals consider when adding a new gastroenterologist.

Former gastroenterologist Lionel Bernstein, MD, has created art for the last three decades, and on March 25, 2017, he's going to have his first exhibit, DCist reports.

A study published in Gastroenterology claims the Northern United States has an elevated rate of celiac disease than the Southern United States.

Here are three updates on GI companies to note:

John Inadomi, MD, is a professor of medicine and the head of gastroenterology at Seattle-based University of Washington.

After reporting non-statistically significant results in it a phase-II study, Cambridge, Mass.-based Seres Therapeutics is launching a revised phase-II study for its SER-109 Clostridium Difficile treatment.

London-based Technavio projects the global colonoscopy device market will grow to $2 billion by 2021 at an approximately 5 percent compound annual growth rate.

In collaboration with Lexington-based University of Kentucky, the National Cancer Institute is conducting educational colorectal cancer outreach services to increase screening rates throughout the state.

Beerse, Belgium-based Janssen Pharmaceuticals' Stelara, an alternative mechanism biologic, was the most exciting advancement to happen to inflammatory bowel disease in 2016, according to a Cambridge, Mass.-based Spherix Global Insights report.