This is a second attempt now at adopting a new medical term into the lexicon. #GITwitter #MedTwitter Hematopapyrus: blood noted on the toilet paper when wiping. One word instead of eight. Jonathan Katz

🙌Ready for #DDW2024! We can't wait to share the #UCLAGI research, conducted with our amazing collaborators, and hope you will join us at one (or more) of our 1⃣1⃣1⃣ lectures/workshops/poster sessions. View list and add us to your Digestive Disease Week calendar! 👉uclahealth.org/sites/default/…

Dr. Vinod Rustgi, one of the editors-in-chief of Gastro Help Advances, engages with the audience about the benefits of publishing in AGA’s broad-based open access journal. #DDW2024 #MeetTheEditors

Breaking News: Colonoscopy Quality Metrics changing! (In Press) #DDW2024 ✅ ADR is calculated for all indications (Screening, Diagnostic & Surveillance) ▶️New Benchmark= 35% ✅Sessile Serrated Lesion Detection Rate (SSLDR) ▶️Benchmark= 6% ✅Withdraw Time ▶️New Benchmark = 8-9

Want to learn more about Endoscopic Procedures of Advanced Polyps? 🔸Jennifer M. Kolb, MD, MS (Jennifer Kolb) 🔸#DDW2024 Clinical Symposium 🔸Monday, May 20, 10:05 am, Ballroom C

Please help us welcome Dr. Maria Abreu (Maria T. Abreu) as AGA’s 119th president! 🎉 She is AGA's 5th woman president & the Director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center, and Professor of Medicine & Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Miller Medicine. ow.ly/rLx450S2L7M

☀️🌏❄️Check out how climate change impacts gut health in this narrative review from Gastro Hep Advances new special section, Impact of Climate Change on Digestive Health! 🔗 ow.ly/fW3050RTa3o

Faculty of the year, mentor of a lifetime. Baha Moshiree MD, MSci, FACG, AGAF Atrium Health

It’s #ColorectalCancer Awareness Month! 📣Need to ask size (and pathology) of your parents’ & siblings’ polyps! If they had polyp ≥ 1cm OR if “villous” or “high grade dysplasia” then your #colonoscopy should be at 40 (or 10yr before them) and every 5 yr! 😯 #CRC UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Register today! Join #UCLAGI for case-based presentations, literature updates, live endoscopy cases and hands-on session. ✍️ FREE for fellows & trainees ✍️ Virtual & in-person ✍️ 15.5 CME/MOC ✍️ IBD, CRC, DGBI, Esophageal, Pancreas, Liver, More! 👉 uclamellinkoffgisymposium.org

#ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth is the perfect time to go back and read our member spotlight column on Shida Haghighat, MD, MPH, a physician and stand-up comedian who focuses on #CRC screening in underserved communities. Read about her "Go Before You Go" initiative: ow.ly/s55I50UZzk4

There are many test options for #colorectalcancer #screening. At UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology UCLA Health and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, we like to say "Pick a Test; Get it Done!" Gastroenterology ACG Department of Medicine at UCLA Health David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Colorectal Cancer Alliance Fight Colorectal Cancer Colon Cancer Coalition UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology UCLA Health #CRC

💪Promoting #colorectalcancer prevention and early detection, in-person and online, at 13th Annual UCLA-Mellinkoff GI & Hep Symposium! 🗣️#CRC speakers: Fola May, MD PhD Shida Haghighat, MD, MPH Dr. Anthony Myint Dr. Wendy Ho 💥#UCLAGI fellows in the house!

One of the craziest finishes to an NBA game you’ll ever see.

#ScrubsNHeels25 Stop telling women they have imposter syndrome ! Caroline Soyka DO 🔺It’s not a lack of confidence, it’s internalizing society’s biases towards women (?a construct & a lie?) 🌟Tips to overcome it👇🏽 💎Find your friendtors, Own your success, Take the Power pose 💪🏽

Had so much fun glamming up for the Scrubs & Heels gala 💄💋 The perfect way to end a full day of awe-inspiring lectures = to let loose with your mentors and #friendtors 💃🏽💃🏽 #ScrubsNHeels25

Would like the world to acknowledge the birthday of a lifetime mentor award recipient Baha Moshiree MD, MSci, FACG, AGAF today. Happy birthday to an outstanding mentor and friend!

🔥🔥📝 Hot off the Press: Our clinical validation study of a blood test for CRC screening👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 🔵 n=27010 🔵CRC sens 80%, spec 91% 🔵May help those unscreened despite stool test and COL NYU Langone Health NYU Department of Medicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Processed meat is a carcinogen, eat it sparingly Dr. Shida Haghighat (Shida Haghighat, MD, MPH) explores various aspects of digestive health. Listen free NOW on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, and Youtube. Link below! youtu.be/jXbkpFHPm3I

Had a patient with chronic testicle pain for 30 years, sent him for pelvic floor physical therapy and that pain is now gone. It also helped him with some peripheral leg pain he’d been dealing with for years. He’s never been happier. Pelvic floor PT works for men and needs to be