GI & Endoscopy

Biopharmaceutical company Amicus Therapeutics has named board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist Jay Barth, MD, its Chief Medical Officer.

Three gastroenterologists share their thoughts on the biggest challenges in reimbursement and their strategies for combating these pressures.

This week, a number of gastroenterologists and public officials met with members of Congress to stress the value of colorectal cancer screening.

Within the past year, Cleveland Clinic has added 12 new physicians, including gastroenterologists Brian Baggott, MD, and Nicholas Golden, MD, according to an insurancenewsnet.com report.

The American Gastroenterological Association has released its AGA Quality Improvement Timeline, which features important federal quality improvement program deadlines for gastroenterologists to know.

More than half of gastroenterologists, 52 percent, feel that they are not fairly compensated, according to Medscape's Gastroenterologist Compensation Report: 2013.

The Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research has named Robert Hardi, MD, AGAF, CPI, its president.

Researchers set out to separately classify functional bowel disorders in a recent study. Here are four things to know about the characteristics on functional bowel disorder patients, according to Medscape's report.  

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases presented QiQi Zhou, MD, PhD, with a $1.7 million grant, according to a report by Galveston County The Daily News.

Researchers from Indiana University in Indianapolis published a study in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy focused on determining the optimal measurement method for adenoma detection rate in colonoscopy.