GI & Endoscopy

Konstantinos Lazaridis, MD, is a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Joining Mayo Clinic in 2000, Dr. Lazaridis served as a Mayo Foundation Scholar in Genomics in the National Human Genome Research Institute at the…

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of June 27 to July 1, 2016.

Norwalk, Ohio-based Bay Area Gastroenterology is joining Fisher-Titus Medical Care, a provider group affiliated with Norwalk-based Fisher-Titus Medical Center, according to a Norwalk Reflector report.

Health Care Service Corporation, a commercial health insurer, issued a medical coverage policy for EndoGastric Solutions' Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication procedures using the EsophyX device.

Here are five gastroenterologists who recently made headlines.

Osaka, Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical and Los Altos, Calif.-based Altos Therapeutics are teaming up to develop Altos' proprietary compound to treat gastroparesis, according to Yahoo! Finance.

Thomas J. McGarrity, MD, is chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

The American Gastroenterological Association participated in a roundtable discussion with CMS.

A study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, examined trends in anesthesia service use during outpatient gastroenterology procedures.

Specializing in hepatology and gastroenterology, Jeffrey Dunkelberg, MD, PhD, practices at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He also has expertise in treating hepatomas and hepatitis.