💥Registration open! #UCLAGI Mellinkoff GI & Hepatology Symposium

🔹Case-based presentations🔹Literature updates 🔹Video & live cases🔹Hands-on session
🔸NEW: Patient-provider communication skills session

☑️CME, MOC
☑️Fellows & trainees FREE!
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.Jihane Benhammou leads study in JAMA Network Open assessing Agent Orange as risk factor for HCC in Veterans

🚫Not risk factor for #HCC
☑️Alcohol #MASLD viral hepatitis remain leading cause
👥Shailja Shah, MD MPH George Cholankeril Tien Dong MD, PhD Arpan Patel, MD PhD (he/him/his) et al
👉jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

🥇So proud of my UCLA Santa Monica team!

Last week, we performed the 1st Duodenal Mucosal Resurfacing (DMR) procedure in California

(for Type 2 Diabetes => REVITALIZE-1 study)

Great to be surrounded by an enthusiastic, inquisitive team who want to make the world better!

Interesting how the phenotype of secondary sclerosis cholangitis is emerging. Have seen several cases of sclerosing cholangitis from check point inhibitors as well

Dr. Jihane Benhammou has received $1.5 million from Veterans Affairs to study hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer. Veterans are 5 times likelier to develop hepatocellular carcinoma compared to the U.S. population at large. newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/j…

🙌Jihane Benhammou awarded the competitive 5-year Clinical Science Research & Development from the Veterans Affairs of R&D.🎯Improve understanding of the role of statins for chemoprevention in #HCC by using novel patient-derived organoid models & interrogating key oncogenic pathways.

Meet my brave little friend Oliver Nulsen … please check out friendsofoliver.com & join me and many others in helping him & others with Diamond Blackfan Anemia 🙏🏼💪🏼❤️ ABC7 Eyewitness News Josh Haskell Denise Dador

It’s unacceptable that UnitedHealthcare plans to move forward with this #priorauth program for GI endoscopy that will create MORE barriers to care for high-risk patients & potentially cost lives. We have met with them repeatedly, only to be stonewalled.

This is not putting patients first!

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Normal B12 levels DOES NOT rule out B12 def anemia. Period.
Many of my colleagues justify doing a bone marrow when the whole clinical picture is of ⬇️B12 only bcoz of normal B12 levels!😓
Anti-IF AB- many times gives Falsely ⏫ levels in B12 CB luminescence assay! #MedTwitter

Congrats to our 2023 Service Award winner Dr. Enrique Rozengurt UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology! His 15 year leadership of our CURE Digestive Diseases Research Core Center has been instrumental for VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System research. He has mentored countless researchers, including new CDA awardee Jihane Benhammou!

So honored by this recognition from VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System! 🙏🏾♥️
Grateful to be part of such an amazing research community and to do research in the Veterans Affairs.
Thank you Elizabeth Yano #DonnaWashington #JosephPisegna for the support! VA HSR Michael Ong UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine at UCLA Health

👏American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Council elects Dr. V. Raman Muthusamy Raman Muthusamy vice chair pancreatic disorders (PAN) section. He will serve alongside Dr. Vikesh Singh, chair.

Dr. Muthusamy is director of endoscopy UCLA Health & professor of clinical medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Congratulations Arnie Shah for a successful #DDW2023 UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology UCLA Health E. Dale Abel Eric Esrailian Lin Chang Digestive Disease Week

Fantastic job Arnie Shah! A rising🌟at #UCLAGI Department of Medicine at UCLA Health David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA Internal Medicine Chief Residents.

Shout out to mentors Raman Muthusamy and Ali Sedarat, MD!

Join us Sunday, May 7 at #DDW2023 !

➡️Repeated Plastic Stent Exchange in Unresectable Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: A Survival Analysis

👤Sagar 'Arnie' Shah, MD
👥@AThakerMD Stephen Kim Raman Muthusamy Derek Pham Nicholas Jackson Ali Sedarat, MD
🕑2:22pm, S100c McCormick Place

Wow! Wow! Wow! Arnie Shah just crushed that presentation in a session full of abstracts from many of the world’s top interventional endoscopy ctrs. Would’ve thought he ran one of those units. FYI-he’s a PGY-2! 😳👏🏾💪🏽👍🏽Eric Esrailian E. Dale Abel Lin Chang UCLA Internal Medicine Chief Residents UCLA Health

Dr. Arnie Shah, a 2nd year Department of Medicine at UCLA Health resident, discussing ERCP for hilar stricture stent exchange like an experienced endoscopist and making us proud!

Excellent oral presentation Digestive Disease Week

Ali Sedarat, MD Raman Muthusamy E. Dale Abel UCLA Health

Novel Use of Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscopy and #AI Video Analysis to Study Gastric Motility in Gastroparesis and Functional Dyspepsia

♦️Rahul Kamath, MD
👥Dean Ehrlich MD Swapna Mahurkar-Joshi, PhD Ali Sedarat, MD Jessica Sohn Lin Chang
⏰ #DDW2023 Poster, Sunday, May 7, 12:30pm

Recurrence Following Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection of Early Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

♦️Sagar 'Arnie' Shah, MD
♦️ #UCLAGI : Raman Muthusamy Ali Sedarat, MD

👉See you at the #DDW2023 poster session Sunday, May 7