So grateful for this (unlikely) collaboration of UNC Gastroenterology and Duke GI at ACG this year! All credit to Andrew Gilman and Todd H Baron MD, MASGE for helping me understand incredibly advanced endoscopic techniques. So fortunate to have you as my mentors!

Happy Halloween from the Duke Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department costume competition - we won! We are the “cells of the intestinal epithelium and supporting niche” (similar to 2018 Koch Institute at MIT Omer Yilmaz lab retreat but with some new cell types). Duke GI

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Took this picture of a red cardinal in the rain today

"In secular America, the last sacred cow is the self. What is good for the self is good in itself." nytimes.com/2023/02/09/opi…

Loved reading this.

Psychological drivers of misinformation belief. Good piece by @nature and one of the most important challenges to understand. nature.com/articles/s4415…

Check out our new paper on the utility and use of fecal biomarkers in monitoring Crohn’s disease and discriminating activity. Was a pleasure working on this with Jonathan Segal and collaborators! mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/5…

Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert youtu.be/ferZnZ0_rSM

🔥57 yo F p/w RUQ pain, fever, vomiting & jaundice. Hx of similar episodes in the past, but never felt this sick😢 or developed jaundice. Labs show leukocytosis, elevated liver enzymes, T. bil & D. bil. U/S is shown below in the comment. What is the diagnosis❓ #GITwitter #MedEd

The answers for this week are out! Check out the tweetorial on Mirizzi syndrome made by @ghmm47 and me along with Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM-D Time to head over to CrushingGIBoards now!

Happy weekend! Let's wrap this week with this summary slide on Mirizzi syndrome by board member Tanisha Kalra, MD Don't forget to save it for a quick review before boards! #MedTwitter #MedEd #GITwitter

My first (hopefully out of many) VideoGIE Journal article! All thanks to Todd H Baron MD, MASGE and Andrew Gilman. Cholangioscopic recanalization of a completely obstructed anastomotic ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to have our research recognized as a presidential poster at #ACG2023. All thanks to Danting Jiang, Dr. Jillian Hurst, PhD, Dr. Matthew Kelly, and Dr. Neil Surana. Special thanks to Dr. Jatin Roper for leading this project. Read more here: cdmcd.co/KpE3P5

Check out our paper on the use of GLP1-RAs prior to elective endoscopy. Honored to be part of the team!

Srinivas Gaddam, MD, MPH | Ghada Mohamed

Happy to see our research recognized by Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine! Excited to share more about our work Digestive Disease Week!

Well, that's a first! Our paper's imaginative illustration of "carrot trachea with steak lungs on a plate" made it to the cover of the Gastroenterology journal!

Our paper in Annals of Int Med on rapidly changing trends in GLP-1RA use - Use has dramatically increased since 2011 particularly after 2020 - Use in obesity without diabetes has tripled - Off-label use has increased from from 0.21% in 2019 to 0.37% in 2023 - Semaglutide (Ozempic,

Thrilled to share our findings on early-stage pancreatic cancer staging, published on JAMA: lymph nodes often missed on preop imaging with huge impact on treatment and survival - Srinivas Gaddam, MD, MPH Ghada Mohamed Cedars-Sinai