The massive audience of Intervetional experts and future interventional endoscopists at #DDW2024 annual FITE event

This debate:
ESD vs EMR for colon adenoma

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4 RDs + 4 GI MDs = 90 minutes of powerful weight inclusivity education🙌🏾 Thanks to my co-moderater Janese Laster, MD and our expert speakers for a terrific symposium today!
#DDW2024 Digestive Disease Week

Thinking of leaving DDW early?
Think again! Stay for 'A Multidisciplinary Approach to Weight Inclusive Care: From Teaching to Clinical Care' moderated by
BlakelyMD & Janese Laster, MD with
Neha D. Shah MPH, RD, CNSC, CHES Emily Rubin RD, LDN Christen Dilly Therezia AlChoufete, MS, RD, LDN Colleen Rauchut Tewksbury PhD RD #SherylPfeil
📍5/21/24 2pm

Why should we treat #obesity and counsel on #nutrition as gastroenterologists?

“Because everything we do is related.”

Janese Laster, MD dropping the facts at another excellent American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Clinical Practice Session

#DDW2024

Thank you Violeta Popov, MD PhD (she/her) for always supporting me! Great panel this morning

The one & only Chris Thompson, MD kicking off the ASGE GI Endoscopy Editors reception and the awards

iGIE is onwards & upwards 🔥🔥

#DDW2024 Digestive Disease Week

#DDW2024 researcher Andres Acosta found that a machine-learning genetic algorithm — the “hungry gut” phenotype test — can predict which patients will do best on semaglutide weight-loss drugs American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

Always a joy learning from my mentor Violeta Popov, MD PhD (she/her) - discussing non-pharmacologic therapies for MASLD
✔️ Many new treatment options
✔️ No clear studies that show change in fibrosis after bariatric surgery
✔️Improvement in fibrosis after bariatric endoscopic procedures

Last night was special. Trying to get it together w my #ddw2024 & #abghsummit24 social game but falling short! But I just had to speak on this overwhelming career moment…

Grateful to those who got me here — my family 1st & foremost, & all who’ve held me up in small & big ways.

Great talk by Carolyn Newberry MD as she discussed how to ‘Minimize the burn”
✔️Not a lot of data on our classic elimination
✔️Consider macro changes (size of meals and fat consumption) & timing of meals
✔️ Should be a targeted/personalized approach
#ddw24

So excited for this session, “Food as Medicine” being kicked off by a GI Dietitian, Nancee Jeffe who highlights understanding patient symptoms in more detail to get to the root of the symptoms and effectively manage!

To say that I’m so very proud and humbled to be a part of what ABGH (ABGH) has accomplished since its founding in 2021 is an understatement. It’s been fueled by passion, grit, set backs, failures and triumphs, & critically, connection & collaboration. #blackingastro . 🫶🏿

Congratulations 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
So well deserved!!
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#DEI

Thorough overview of MoA of small bowel EBMTs by Chris Thompson, MD along with all-star panelists! #DDW2024 <3

Important to understand foregut-hindgut hypothesis & intestinal permeability

Different EBMTs target different MoA, resulting in metabolic improvements w or w/o weight loss

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” -Maya Angelou

You are celebrated here.

September 2024.
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What a fun and hot debate on #ESG vs #GLP -1RA for the treatment of obesity and MASLD!

So proud of our FITE - Foundation #Endobariatrics committee and our Brigham and Women's GI bariatric endo fellow Danse Bi at the sold-out FITE - Foundation event tonight! #DDW2024

Great talk by Chris Thompson, MD for us budding innovators with tons of ideas and no idea how to prototype it! A few gems:
✅Make sure there is a need
✅Decide the best pathway to market
✅The first prototype will fail
✅ You need a lawyer!!

All star power panel at #DDW2024 session on American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) gender equity project. #womeningastroenterology .

Rotonya Carr Neena S Abraham MD MACG FASGE AGAF Maria T. Abreu

Happening NOW ‼️ at #ABGHSummit24 :

Melodie Narain-Blackwell moderates a session on the impact of #advocacy on #healthequity

Donna Cryer, Kimberly Hooks, Janese Laster, MD & Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, MCHES weigh in ⚖️ in the 🧵 below ⬇️

What a joy, the 2nd Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists Summit! Panel with ⁦Janese Laster, MD⁩ who gave me advice on bariatric endoscopy. Great to be back in DC for the pre events for #DDW2024 #abghsummit24 ⁦ABGH⁩ ⁦Digestive Disease Week⁩