#DDW2024 is 3⃣ weeks away!

🤩Time for Habibi's Round-up of social events, networking opportunities & more.

🤗Tips on navigating the Digestive Disease Week app

🧐Missed anything? Let me know

😖1st time & need advice? More advice here👇
🔗pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36310307

Every Monday, I do liver consultations. A usual consult: “Male patient with advanced liver disease and active alcohol intake with a recent fall that develops agitation”.

My usual diagnostic dilemma:
- Fall-related brain injury?
- Withdrawal syndrome?
- Hepatic encephalopathy?
-…

Missed out on the 🔥🔥 #ScopingSundays discussion this past weekend on “ #PancreaticFluidCollections ”

Check out the #ScopingSummary from the interactive discussion led by Neil Sharma, M.D. FASGE, FACG, AGAF, Cathy Wang, MD & Sanjeevani Tomar, MD!

Special thanks to Harsimran Kalsi for the summary!

Retroflexion in the ascending colon is a skill that is often overlooked. Yet it is an invaluable and important aspect of colonoscopy learning AND teaching as demonstrated by this recent colonoscopy of mine.
If not for retroflexion, I would have completely missed a polyp on this…

With deep sadness, AASLD recognizes the passing of a great leader in the field. Dr. Stephen Harrison leaves behind an incredible legacy, particularly in NASH/MASH. Thank you Drs. Rinella, Tetri, and Brunt for your moving tribute, which you can read here: aasld.org/col-stephen-ha…

It is with a heavy heart that we at the Fatty Liver Alliance share the news of the sudden passing of Dr. Stephen A. Harrison, a distinguished hepatologist and cherished colleague to so many, on April 23, 2024. Dr. Harrison was a towering figure in the medical community, renowned…

How competitive is GI fellowship match?

⭐️Objectively the most difficult medicine subspecialty to match in! ⭐️

▪️239 GI/Liver programs in NRMP
▪️GI had 1064 for 690 positions
▪️35% unmatched
▪️More competitive than 🫀🫁

Have a strategy and demonstrate GRIT!

Are you applying for GI fellowship THIS cycle?

Uncontrollable❌
▪️Reputation of residency
▪️Reputation of medical school
▪️Step scores

Controllable‼️
▪️Research
▪️Service
▪️Medical education
▪️Personal statement
▪️Interviews

“Control the controllables”

#GITwitter

ERAS CV should include the following:

▪️Peer-reviewed pubs
▪️Non-peer reviewed pubs
▪️Pubs submitted & not yet accepted
▪️Poster presentations
▪️Oral presentations (national & local)
▪️Include PMID when available
▪️Submitted. Accepted/in press.

Ariel Aday

Come join us at learn what to include on your CV when applying to GI fellowship!

Note: ERAS CV only allows 10 experiences

⭐️Curate the most relevant! ⭐️

Which 🔟 should you include!?

🎧 tune in RIGHT NOW with Ariel Aday

#GITwitter ACG

Tonight! Join us at 8pm ET for guidance on navigating the GI MATCH process.

➡️register.gotowebinar.com/register/42579…

Mohammad Bilal, MD Ariel Aday Yasmin Alishahi MD, FACG, AGAF Andrew Canakis Anoushka Dua, MD Carl Kay, MD Kawthar Mohamed

Someone reached out suggesting I compile a summary of #IBD H2H trials

His suggestion motivated me to complete the one I had

🌟So, here it is over 35 trials. Hope it proves helpful!
ibd-eii.com/ibdcheatsheet
You'll have to access the website to view it in full.

Happy to add…

Grounding Pads in Endoscopy

🔴 Grounding pad v 🔵 no grounding pad?

🔑 Understand if you’re using monopolar or bipolar device (complete circuit)

▪️Hot snare
▪️APC
▪️Hot AXIOS w/ electrocautery system
▪️Coagraspers
▪️Snare tip soft coag
▪️Monopolar RFA
▪️Biliary sphincterotomy

Thank you Evidence-Based GI Doc Linda Ánh Vân Nguyễn MD Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF and everyone at #EBMed for an incredible 1st Great #GI Debates!

Reasons you must attend next year!

🤣Laugh so hard you’ll cry
🎤Mic drop worthy debates
🎶Epic music walk-ons
🏖️Bonding beach activities
🫶🏾Mentorship from world experts

For all the Texas GI’s out there.
Please come join us for Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy TSGE Happy Hour Digestive Disease Week 2024!

Decision-Making Models

▪️Paternalistic
▪️Shared
▪️Patient

Shared decision making relevant when: More than one reasonable option, possible benefits and harms of each option affect patients differently.

#EBMed with About IBD: Amber-Writer, Journalist, Podcast Host + Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF

Short Bowel Syndrome Mgmt is complex! Dr Novak Mount Sinai IBD Center expertly guides us

✂️Read op note
3️⃣Types of intestinal failure

Rx
💦 intake & iso-osmol
🍟⬆️SCFA,⬆️protein,⬇️simple CHO
💊<100cm ileal ✂️ bile acid binder
🔥PPI+anti💩
💉TPN+vitamins
💊Teduglutide (GLP-2) helps QoL