GI & Endoscopy

Carol A. Burke, MD, has been elected president of the American College of Gastroenterology.

Parag Chokshi, MD, of Sun City, Ariz.-based Arizona Digestive Health has been selected as a Distinguished Doctor by The Expert Network, The Digital Journal reports.

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Oct. 10 to Oct. 14.

Here are 15 statistics on colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy for ASCs based on the AAAHC Institute clinical benchmarking study in 2016.

Allergan and SonarMD have partnered to develop clinical decision support and patient engagement tools to diagnose and manage patients with a form of irritable bowel syndrome.

Here are five gastroenterologists in the news this past week.

The 2016 SCOPY Awards are in and 22 practices and physicians were recognized by the American College of Gastroenterology.

The Center for Digestive Disease at Baltimore's MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center added Abhinav Sankineni to its staff.

A study in Hepatology found that the anti-inflammatory medication cromolyn sodium may be able to prevent liver disease, according to ScienceDaily.

The San Diego-based pharmaceutical company Prometheus Laboratories has launched PROMETHEUS Anser VDZ, a monitoring test for inflammatory bowel disease patients using vedolizumab.