One gastroenterologist shares her experience transitioning from various practice settings during her career and offers words of advice for other GI physicians considering a career move.
GI & Endoscopy
Essentia Health-Duluth (Minn.) Clinic has added gastroenterologist Ayan Rage, MD, to its team, according to a Duluth News Tribune report.
Clostridium difficile treatment in the outpatient setting often deviates from guidelines, according to a Medscape report.
A positive fecal immunochemical test predicts advanced neoplasia, and requires a colonoscopy for removal. A recent study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology examines the efficacy of second-look colonoscopies for the assessment of complete removal of AN.
The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation has granted Rodney D. Newberry, MD, its AGA-Providence Food Intolerance Research Award.
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Theodore M. Bayless, MD, is professor of medicine and director emeritus of the Meyerhoff Digestive Disease-Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. He has served as director of the AGA section on Immunology, Microbiology and Inflammatory Disorders…
Kentucky will receive around $2.6 million in federal grant funding to improve colon cancer screening rates and health outcomes, according to a Floyd County Times report.
The American Gastroenterological Association, Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America and Janssen Biotech have selected the winner of the 2015 AGA-CCFA-Janssen Research Award in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Epigenetics Research.
The CMS Advisory Panel on Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests recently held a vote on whether to maintain current Medicare reimbursement for Exact Sciences' Cologuard.
Andres Gelrud, MD, MMSc, is a clinical pancreatologist and an associate professor of medicine at The University of Chicago Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterology Association and American Pancreas Association.