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GI & Endoscopy

Chicago-based GI Partners of Illinois has announced a partnership with Acucare, an AI-driven technology platform that transforms EHR data to actionable insights, according to an April 22 news release from the organization.  With this new partnership, GI Partners of Illinois…

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Chan Medical School has become the first medical center to complete a procedure using the WallFlex Biliary PLUS RX Fully Covered Stent.  The procedure was performed by assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at…

GI Alliance has struck a strategic partnership with healthcare technology company Iterative Health. The partnership aims to expand access to clinical trials for GI patients, according to an April 23 press release.  It will open up GI Alliance’s clinical research…

The American Gastroenterological Association has awarded $2.4 million in research grants to 74 recipients.  In addition, the AGA is awarding 10 pilot grants totaling $400,000 for 2026, according to an April 22 news release.  The grants were awarded through the…

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1. Hafiz Khan, MD, is serving as medical director of AdvantHealth Tampa’s (Fla.) Center for Interventional Endoscopy, the only interventional endoscopy center in the Tampa Bay region.  2. The American Gastroenterological Association elected Richard Peek, MD, as vice president in…

Pinnacle Gastroenterology is expected to open a multi-physician gastroenterology practice in a building that housed the now-shuttered Arkansas Diagnostic Center of Little Rock, Arkansas Business reported April 21.  The new clinic is unaffiliated with the gastroenterologist who operated the Diagnostic…

Former Nashville-based Vanderbilt University gastroenterologist Terrence Allen Smith, MD, died at VUMC on April 7 following a bicycle accident, according to an April 18 report from the Williamson Herald. Dr. Smith, 68, was a resident of Brentwood, Tenn., and a…

Despite gastroenterologist pay falling by 3% between 2024 and 2025, overall, the specialty has seen a 33.78% pay hike since 2015. From 2015 to 2025, the inflation rate in the U.S. has risen by 1.7%, according to data from the…

AdventHealth Tampa (Fla.) has opened a Center for Interventional Endoscopy, the only interventional endoscopy center in the Tampa Bay region.  Hafiz Khan, MD, serves as medical director of Tampa’s CIE, according to an April 9 press release.  The center offers…

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