Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has named Ivor Hill, MD, MB, ChB, DCH, FCP (SA), FAAP, board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist, as the medical director of its Celiac Disease Center.
GI & Endoscopy
Here are eight statistics on gastroenterology and endoscopy revenue per case in ambulatory surgery centers based on number of operating rooms, according to VMG's Intellimaker ASC Benchmarking Survey 2011. The data was gathered from 375, 219 multispecialty ASCs performing GI…
Second Genome, San Bruno, Calif.-based microbiome therapeutic products company, has announced a partnership with Janssen Biotech designed to develop a novel treatment for ulcerative colitis.
After neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and cardiologists, gastroenterologists are generally the next highest-compensated physician specialty, earning upwards of $520,000 per year.
Ronald Vender, MD, board-certified gastroenterologist and president of the American College of Gastroenterology, recently wrote a letter responding to "The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill" article that included colonoscopy as a leading cause of high medical costs, according to a report…
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Boston University Medical Campus has recently promoted board-certified internist and gastroenterologist Satish Singh, MD, to associate professor of gastroenterology, according to a BU Today report.
Canon U.S.A., digital imaging solutions company, has announced its Healthcare Optics Research Laboratory has opened in a new location in Cambridge, Mass.
The University Medical Center Foundation of El Paso Texas, has received a $50,000 grant from the Coldwell Foundation, which was used to fund the purchase of the Halo Ablation System, according to an El Paso Times report.
PENTAX Medical, a Montvale, N.J.-based medical devices company, has announced that it will be displaying products such as its EPK-i7000 HD Plus video processor and i10 endoscope series at the 2013 British Society of Gastroenterology annual meeting, according to a…
Qu Biologics, Vancouver, British Columbia-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced that William Sandborn, MD, and Richard Fedorak, MD, FRCPC, FRCP, FRSC, have joined its irritable bowel disease advisory team.