GI & Endoscopy

Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg, N.Y., added gastroenterologist Sebastian Mazzotta, MD, to its physician team, according to a North Country Now report.

Allegheny Health Network, based in Pittsburgh, has partnered with the stool bank OpenBiome in Cambridge, Mass., according to a Trib Live report.

Catherine Frenette, MD, is the medical director of liver transplantation at La Jolla, Calif.-based Scripps Health. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in gastroenterology, internal medicine and transplant hepatology.

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of Feb. 8 to Feb. 12, 2016.

Earlier this month, Physicians Endoscopy announced a new partnership with Clearwave. Now Physicians Endoscopy's East Side Endoscopy in New York will be one of the first of its centers to roll out the self-service patient registration kiosks.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has elected two new directors to its board, including gastroenterologist John C. Mitchell II, MD, according to an Omaha.com report.

Neil Gupta, MD, MPH, is a practicing gastroenterologist and assistant professor at Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine. His clinical interests include pancreas disorders, Barrett's esophagus, gastrointestinal bleeding, colon cancer, endoscopic mucosal resection, bile duct cancer and interventional endoscopy.

It's commonly known that the diet and lifestyle of an expecting mother can have a huge effect on the health of her unborn child. What's less well known, however, is the fact that babies also receive a host of probiotic…

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Gastroenterologist Tara Talwar, MD, has become a part of the St. Anthony's Physician Organization in St. Louis.