GI & Endoscopy

Here are six gastroenterologists who recently made headlines.

Mercy Clinic Gastroenterology-Patients First Drive in Washington, Mo., added Matthew Gaeta, MD, to its physician team, according to a St. Louis Dispatch report.

A study published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics found the use of surgical fundoplication in patients with GERD has rapidly declined in the United States between 2009 and 2013.

Fabio Cominelli, MD, PhD, is a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. He is the chief of the division of gastroenterology and liver disease and director of the Digestive Health Institute…

On a scale of one to five, GI physicians rated their net worth 2.78, according to the Medscape Physician Debt and Net Worth Report 2016.

A new study, published in Liver Transplantation, examined the prevalence of steatosis in adult liver transplantation recipients, to determine the effects of significant steatosis on patient survival.

In an effort to ensure that all patients with hepatitis C virus have access to the best treatment, the American Academy of Family Physicians is pressing CMS to help end restrictions that prevent primary care physicians from exercising their clinical…

Barry K. Wershil, MD, division head of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at Anne & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and his colleagues are researching ways…

While esophageal intestinal metaplasia, or Barrett's esophagus, is the subject of multiple guidelines regarding screening and surveillance, there are no such guidelines in the United States for gastric intestinal metaplasia, according to Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News.

Barry K. Wershil, MD, is a pediatric gastroenterologist and director of the department of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.