Congrats also to BCM GI Fellow Dr. Valentine Millien and Mimi Tan and Houston VA GI team BCM Gastroenterology also with oral presentation Digestive Disease Week on improving GIM guideline adherence

🌈Interested in LGBTQI+ health and equity? 🏳️‍🌈Join us on Monday at 2pm at the Gastroenterology Diversity Symposium for a great discussion! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ with my amazing colleagues Christopher_Velez_GI Victor Chedid, MD Kira Newman, MD, PhD Nikki Duong, M.D. #DDW2022 #DiversityinGI #livertwitter #GItwitter

“We are, in fact, in some ways moving backwards” Incredible talk by Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS discussing the impact of structural racism like red-lining on health disparities, and novel interventions that have helped address inequity. 🔥 👏👏👏👏 #DDW2022 ABGH

Hope to see you all there!!

This #DDW2022 Diversity Symposium is 🔥 addressing disparities in #CRC, #IBD, clinical trial enrollment & need for parental leave equity Fola May, MD PhD Damie Odufalu Dr. Lanla Conteh and Lauren Feld Digestive Disease Week American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) See you at the #Diversity reception! 🎉

#DDW2022 Meaningful improvement of quality of care in #GI #IBD #Liver 💎“Focus on your patients & don’t forget those left out” ✅Understand pts concerns ✅Engage pts on their🎯 ✅Collaborate & be transparent ✅Provide safe effective quality empathic care ✅All🏥hands on deck

From a community organizer who has seen too often the cycles of outrage, grief, and protest followed by no sustained effort to transform systems. Guess what? We will keep getting what we get. 4/

"Someone" should do something. Thankfully, "someone" is you. Here are a few things you can do TODAY: 🧵

Join us Nov. 19th in📍TX for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) #WomeninGI South Regional Workshop! Dr. Aja Mccutchen Fasiha Kanwal Milena Gould Suarez, MD Richa Shukla ow.ly/5GLm50KFu1h

Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) save lives. Every single community center, gym, recreational facility, soccer field, restaurant should have a functioning one easily accessible and staff trained to use them.

We at the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) are working hard to get this right for our patients. Stay tuned for our reporting of what our members say are our top advocacy priorities and how you can help. Amit Patel, MD, AGAF, FACG Kathleen Teixeira

Congratulations Ricardo Nuila ! Well deserved. Thanks for eloquently shedding light on the challenges in health care and showing the dignity of patients seeking care

Large “nonprofit” health systems continue to report financial strain, citing increased labor costs, supply costs, and lower reimbursements. An analysis of 10 large systems found that false, with poor finances driven primarily by private investment losses. healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/for…

Need a break during #DDW2023 ? Swing by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) #AGAPAC lounge for snacks, great company and to learn more about important issues in #GI like step therapy and prior auth! Lisa Gangarosa Sadeea Abbasi, MD, PhD

#DDW2023 Join me tomorrow morning at this informative session! #AGAadvocacy American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

Bring your coffee and join us tomorrow (Monday) morning to hear about what the AGA is doing to stop insurers from delaying care to GI patients and how you can help! Digestive Disease Week #DDW2023

I’m hearing so many people cite conflict of interest as the reason physicians shouldn’t own hospitals. This also happens to be the main strategy the American Hospital Association used to lobby Congress to ban POHs in the Affordable Care Act, paving the way for the consolidated