Calling all researchers & experts in gastroenterology! Submit your groundbreaking findings, innovative treatments, & insightful perspectives to Intestinal Failure, the new open access journal dedicated to advancing knowledge in GI health. Details here: spkl.io/601240c5O

Grateful to our amazing UCLA surgical and medical oncology team (and the support of our external HAIC community) to help initiate our #HAIC program today! 1st pump implanted ✅ Excited to be able to offer this therapy to select patients with metastatic CRC and iCCA UCLA Health.

What a great turnout for a great cause. Happy to participate and run walk with the UCLA Health team during the OneLegacy event for National Donate Life Month

Learn about the new open access journal, Intestinal Failure! Whether you're delving into its latest research or eager to contribute your own findings, this journal offers a dynamic space for scholars & practitioners. Explore Intestinal Failure here: spkl.io/60114L8lL

I hope you can join the 11am concurrent session on pediatrics ILTS in Houston co-moderated by myself from UCLA Health and Vicky Ng from SickKidsToronto

Check out the state of the art session today at 13:30 during #ATC2024Phily. I will be speaking on rejection after #intestinaltransplant. ASTS UCLA Health

Congratulations to Ron Busuttil UCLA Health for the establishment of a foundation research grant ASTS this year! This will be impactful to young surgeon scientists for years to come! AmericanTransplantCongress

Thrilled to welcome Drs. Bryan Myers and Catherine Donat our incoming fellow class of 2025 to the UCLA transplant family.

Registration open! UCLA Health faculty discuss prevalent liver diseases & their complications using a multi-disciplinary approach w/hepatologists, radiologists, addiction medicine & surgeons. #livertwitter 🔹CME 🔹Hybrid 👉 Registration & agenda ucla.cloud-cme.com/course/courseo…

🌠#UCLAGI & GI surgery ranked #4 in @USNews Best Hospitals rankings! This also makes us the top ranked GI & GI surgery hospital for a public university in the country. We thank our patients for continuing to choose our dedicated and exemplary team to provide their care.

Dr. Ronald Busuttil, distinguished professor of surgery emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named a recipient of the 2024 Medawar Prize by The Transplantation Society. He was recognized for his work advancing knowledge of liver transplantation. Read more: ucla.in/4bJLW5C

We are delighted to showcase the first edition of Intestinal Failure. Please find it here: sciencedirect.com/journal/intest… IIRTA_TTS Douglas G Farmer SimonLal Jonathan Hind Helen Evans

A shout out to the Omaha team for their paper on gastric bypass reversal in SBS. We can’t find them on X, so do pass on our congratulations if you see them! Jon Thompson, Fedja Rochling, Elizabeth Lynden, Shaheed Merani, Luciano Vargas, Wendy Grant, Alan Langnas, David Mercer

We invite liver patients, families & caregivers to our free patient seminar, Liver Diseases: Update 2024 on Sat., Aug. 24th, 8am–1pm at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. UCLA experts will present the latest science on liver diseases. You will get your questions answered. RSVP:

Well done to our Associate Editor Josh Weiner and his team for their publication in our inaugural edition. The paper addresses the really important topic of the use of kidney-inclusive intestinal transplant grafts. Josh isn’t on X but virtual applause all round! 👏👏👏

Well done Sivan Kinberg, MD & her team Asia Smith, Shweta Namjoshi, Laura Bachrach, Monica Grover, Christine Hoyer, James Dunn, Mark Hanudel for their lovely paper looking at vertebral fractures in children with IF 👏👏👏 Douglas G Farmer David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA IIRTA_TTS Jonathan Hind SimonLal

Our 1st edition wouldn’t be complete without an article by our friends at Sick Kids, Toronto. Their work shows that 1/3 of children with massive bowel resection achieve enteral autonomy 😊 Clarelle L. Gonsalves Christina belza Paul W. Wales IIRTA_TTS Douglas G Farmer SimonLal Jonathan Hind

Announcement from Editor-in-Chief Douglas G. Farmer! Submissions are OPEN for the groundbreaking open access journal, Intestinal Failure. Calling all pioneers in gastroenterology to share your insights & innovations with the world. spkl.io/60144hRTp

We are delighted to include this lovely systematic review on anticoagulation & antiplatelet therapy in SBS in our 1st edition. None of the Oxford-based authors are here on X so please says thanks if you know them 👏👏👏Douglas G Farmer IIRTA_TTS SimonLal Jonathan Hind

Amazing opportunity for researchers! Introducing Intestinal Failure, the open access journal dedicated to advancing gastroenterology. Submit your work for FREE in 2024 - ZERO APC! Join us in revolutionizing GI health & making knowledge accessible to all. spkl.io/60114hRuX