An array of digital technologies, including mobile applications, wearable devices, biosensors, #AI & telehealth, can offer a path toward precision #GInutrition 🔖Curr Treatment Options in GI 👥Sown Kim Yi Zhang Kasuen Mauldin Berkeley Limketkai (#UCLAGI) 👉link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Find us at #DDW2025, May 4, 12:30pm! Current State Analysis of Disease Monitoring Practices After Initiation of Advanced Therapies in Patients with #IBD 🌠Bita Shahrvini 👤Senior: Berkeley Limketkai 👥Mark Baniqued, MD Divya Prajapati Rhett Harmon Nirupama Bonthala MD Gaurav Syal, MD MHDS Fola May, MD PhD et al

COMING SOON! South Asian GI Nutrition – an educational platform empowering dietitians to build nutrition practices with South Asian insights.  All healthcare providers are welcome to learn too! © South Asian GI Nutrition is under the ownership of Neha Shah Nutrition LLC

🛑Stop by #DDW2025, Tuesday, May 6, 12:30pm Fear of Food and Selective Food Avoidance in Patients with #IBD ✨Alexandra C. Greb, MD (Olive View UCLA UCLA Internal Medicine Chief Residents) 👤 Senior: Berkeley Limketkai 👥Mark Baniqued, MD Bita Shahrvini Janelle Smith Neha D. Shah MPH, RD, CNSC, CHES Jenny Sauk Nirupama Bonthala MD et al

Nationwide Analysis of Food Insecurity Among Individuals with #IBD in the United States 🤩Mark Baniqued, MD (Mark Baniqued, MD Olive View UCLA UCLA Internal Medicine Chief Residents ) 👤Senior: Berkeley Limketkai 👥Alexandra C. Greb Neha D. Shah MPH, RD, CNSC, CHES Alyssa Parian Zhaoping Li See you at #DDW2025! May 6, 4pm, 20AB

🔥The How To: Launching a Multi-Disciplinary Precision #IBD-Nutrition Clinic 🎙️Berkeley Limketkai (Director of Clinical Research/IBD) 🎙️Christina Fasulo, MS RD (Lead GI Dietitian) 🗓️Monday, May 5, 2:22 pm, 29AB, #DDW2025

Mark Baniqued shares our findings of food insecurity among individuals with #IBD in US (13% with #IBD vs. 8% without IBD). Diet therapies don't work for patients who cannot even afford them. #DDW2025 UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology Olive View UCLA

🔥off the press: ACG guideline on nutrition/malnutrition for liver disease. Published AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology pubmed.gov/40314389

Solomon Scholars Research Day 2025 was a success! Residents across our seven UCLA-affiliated internal medicine programs gathered to share innovative research and case studies. Watch the recap video to learn from some of the presenters about their projects: uclahs.fyi/4moVfyu

Thank you, Solomon Scholars, for the opportunity to present my work! We found malnutrition risk to be more prevalent among students with GI disorders compared to non-students (44.4% vs. 18.3%). Thank you to my mentor Berkeley Limketkai and co-authors at UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Olive View UCLA

Fidaxomicin ⤵️collagen expression in intestinal fibroblasts via platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta & glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta inhibition Gastroenterology #crohnsdisease 🖊️Sophie Irwin Swapna Mahurkar-Joshi, PhD Florian Rieder Berkeley Limketkai Hon Wai Koon et al gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-…

✂️Have surgery rates ⬇️ in CD in biologics era? 🧐 Yes ✅, but NOT in all phenotypes of CD according to a nationwide study by Berkeley Limketkai which showed:⬆️surgery for stricturing CD from ~11% in 1998 to 29% in 2020, highlighting the need for antifibrotics💉doi.org/10.1093/ibd/iz…

Thank you for the very kind invitation. I am excited to share about some of our work in #nutrition for #IBD and how research can inform clinical practice.

Nicholas Valle UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology publishes a very interesting case report in Digestive Diseases & Sciences on cerebral Crohn's disease (not your typical brain-gut connection). pubmed.gov/40514635

Coming Soon!

The July issue of the #RedJournal is here!   Explore this month's articles, including a new ACG Clinical Guideline: Preventive Care in IBD!   📕 amjgastro.com   Millie Long Jasmohan Bajaj Francis (Frank) Farraye, MD, MSc Freddy Caldera, DO, PhD Gil Y. Melmed, MD, MS Edward Barnes MD MPH Berkeley Limketkai Sunanda Kane M.D.

🔥 Out today! ACG Clinical Guideline Update: Preventive Care in #IBD 👥 Francis (Frank) Farraye, MD, MSc Gil Melmed Gary Lichtenstein, MD Edward Barnes MD MPH Berkeley Limketkai Freddy Caldera, DO, PhD Sunanda Kane M.D. 👉 journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/2…

This multicenter study, led by UCLA, was published in IBDJournal & CC360 👉Study of efficacy and safety of ustekinumab and vedolizumab for #Crohns disease of the pouch. 👥 Berkeley Limketkai Sunhee Park Kian Keyashian Eleanor Yang Laura Maas, MD Alyssa Parian et al academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/adv…

Trends in Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Among Hospitalized Patients w/IBD 🔖 JCG Online shows SUD among #IBD patients ⬆️over time w/predominant substances shifting from alcohol to opioids & cannabis. 👥Berkeley Limketkai Lauren DeDecker MD Po-Hung (Victor) Chen et al 👉journals.lww.com/jcge/fulltext/…

🚨Out now AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology: Ultra-Processed Grains and Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Results from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study Ultra-processed grains (cereals, packaged breads, etc) 🔼 risk of UC and higher intake of UPF associated with 🔼 both CD/UC