GI & Endoscopy

Stuart Waldstreicher, MD, practices with Gastroenterology Consultants in Stamford, Conn., as well as medical director of Diagnostic Endoscopy in Stamford and chief of gastroenterology at Stamford Hospital. He also serves as an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia Medical…

Miranda A.L. van Tilburg, PhD, has received the 2015 AGA-Rome Foundation Functional GI and Motility Disorders Pilot Research Award, according to a American Gastroenterological Association report.

Earlier this year, "superbugs" made national headlines following several outbreaks of infections linked to duodenoscopes used during ERCP. Here are 13 things for gastroenterologists to know about antibiotic resistant infections in the healthcare industry.

Here are four recent news updates on gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

The FDA has released supplemental guidance on reprocessing duodenoscopes, the scopes used during ERCP.

Ronald Vender, MD, is a professor of medicine and the associate dean for clinical affairs at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., as well as CMO of Yale Medical Group. He is a past president of the American…

A mechanism that allows the gut epithelium to signal the immune system to repair tissue damage, which could help inflammatory bowel disease patients, has been revealed in a study published in PNAS.

Capital Digestive Care, based in Silver Spring, Md., has partnered with Cigna to develop a program designed to improve quality and cost of care for colonoscopy patients.

John Vargo, MD, MPH, is the department chair of gastroenterology and hepatology at Cleveland Clinic as well as vice chairman of Cleveland Clinic's Digestive Disease Institute and president of the Cleveland Clinic medical staff. He is a member of the…

The American Board of Internal Medicine has recertified Louis E. Lataif Jr., MD, in internal medicine, according to a Northwest Georgia News report.