GI & Endoscopy

Seth Gross, MD, a gastroenterologist with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, weighed in on whether new colonoscopy technologies are helpful or over-hyped in an issue of AGA Perspectives.

The average resident salary in 2015 is $55,400, according to Medscape's Residents Salary & Debt Report 2015.

Here are five recent news updates on key gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

Berkshire Health System, based in Pittsfield, Mass., has added gastroenterologist Jason Bratcher, MD, to its medical staff at Berkshire Medical Center, according to an iBerkshires.com report.

Corey A. Siegel, MD, is the director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and an associate professor of medicine at Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H. He is also an associated…

Humble, Texas-based Advanced Gastroenterology opens new location in Kingwood, Texas, according to a Kingwood News report.

Helen M. Shields, MD, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and a senior physician in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, also in Boston. She previously provided care…

Lisa Brody, MD, is leading a presentation at the American College of Gastroenterology's 80th annual conference, Oct. 16 to Oct. 21 in Hawaii.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Electronic Health Fairness Act. Scott Ketover, MD, president of the Digestive Health Physicians Association and president and CEO of Minnesota Gastroenterology in St. Paul, weighs in on the importance of this legislation.

Here are the five most popular Becker's ASC Review gastroenterology and endoscopy stories for the week of July 13 to July 17.