This is a first official tweet for the division of gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at the University of Florida! We hope to use this account to share our lives, accomplishments, and aspirations. Go 🐊

Congratulations to our Chair, Dr. Gilbert R. Upchurch, on being named the 2023 Putnam Distinguished Mentor Award, courtesy of the Association of Women Surgeons Foundation! Gilbert Upchurch WomenSurgeons

The UF IBD women enjoying the 17th Annual UF CME. Great time!

$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyr… I want to have this kind of impact on my medical school. The stand up and cheer kind of effect!!!! Go Dr. Gottesman!!!!

The annual leadership conference “Women Rising in Medicine” by the young women in the undergraduate American Medical Women’s Assn. Keynote speaker Dr Kayser Enneking sharing her amazing story of leadership. #AMWA #WomenRising

#WIMS2024 Wellness discussion with Dr Lisa Merlo and David Cheshire. Advice to junior faculty balancing work and home ‘just buy the minced garlic!!!’

#WIMS2024 Dr Nita Ahuja talking about ‘Rediscovering Joy in Medicine’ at UF WIMS conference. Wonderful discussion, evidence-based, compelling message about resilience.

Congratulations to Ellen Zimmermann and Madeline joseph for a successful & productive 2024 UF Medicine and UF College of Medicine - Jacksonville joint #UFWIMS Leadership Conference “How to be Well and Thrive in Academic Medicine! 🤩

Our UF IBD group enjoying DDW and Washington DC this past weekend! #DDW2024 #research #GITwitter

Zimmermann lab researcher, Chelsea Salmon, investigated venous thromboembolic events across IBD therapies. "Sharing the benefits of advanced therapy with IBD patients is extremely important” #DDW2024 #GITwitter

We welcomed ⭐️ visiting scholar, Dr. Bianca Islam, from CWRU-GI/Case Western GI Fellowship today for GI Grand Rounds. Her talk on “Early Onset Colorectal Cancer: Understanding the Biology and Identifying the Risk Factors” was truly exceptional. We appreciate you Bianca Islam, MD, PhD 💯

#DDW2025 Digestive Disease Week Impressive session on spatial transcriptomics in HCC, panc Ca and gastric cancer #WIMS Sonya MacParland, Laura Wood, and Eunyoung Choi

Chomp chomp from San Diego! The Gators showed up and showed out at #DDW2025 — science, sunshine, and serious Gator spirit!

At #DDW2025, Tomas Potlach identified demographic predictors of opioid exposure in IBD patients with history of bowel obstructions. Hispanic ethnicity, male sex, Crohn’s disease, and age >=65 were independent risk factors for opioid exposure.

At #DDW2025, Chelsea Salmon shared how UF IBD health liaisons are able to capture information on patients’ occupational function and social lives— which is sometimes missed in routine clinical visits.

Just Tomas Potlach at it again at #DDW2025! For the first time, researchers at the University of Florida explored access to advanced IBD therapies in Epic Cosmos, a national electronic health record dataset covering 277 million lives in the United States.

#DDW2025 Dr. Ali Aalam: Using representative data from the NEDS database (2012–2021), our study quantifies the growing burden of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis patients presenting to EDs, highlighting how major complications and comorbidities impact admission rates.

At #DDW2025, Nofel Iftikhar shared findings on disparities in pain management for IBD patients who underwent bowel resection. Hispanic patients were less likely than NHW patients to receive opioids, gabapentinoids, and antispasmodics, despite similar surgery rates.

#DDW2025 “My research studied the association between resistant infections and patients with a history of IBD and long-term antibiotic use. Our results showed increased odds of various infection types based on steroid use, select antibiotic use, IBD treatment, and demographics.”

I gave to UWEC first generation college student scholarships in Chemistry. That was me 40+ years ago!!! #giveUWEC