Great talk by Dr. Katy Rude at UAMS Gut Club! She shared key updates on liver transplantation. Grateful for her expertise and insights! #LiverTransplant #GI #UAMS #GutClub

🎉 Kicked off the year with a warm welcome event for our new GI fellows at UAMS! Great food, even better company—plus a special shoutout to our PD and division chief showing off their golf swings at Top Golf ⛳️ #UAMSGI #FellowshipLife #GItraining

Wow 🫡 Fola Fola May, MD PhD

🚨 Big milestone in MASLD/MASH! We now have two FDA-approved drugs: 🔸 Resmetirom (oral, THR-β agonist) 🔹 Semaglutide (weekly SC, GLP-1 RA) I made this simple side-by-side comparison 👇

📊 How to interpret PEth blood levels for recent alcohol intake? Here’s a concise & practical table to guide you.

Any daily alcohol consumption is associated with certain cancers, and the risk of cancer increases with higher alcohol intake. This JAMA Insights discusses the evidence related to the US Surgeon General’s Advisory on alcohol and cancer risk. ja.ma/4m4FeME

ESD 🚀. 3cm BE with concerns for intramucosal ca on path removed en bloc. Excited to join UAMS Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and contribute to their already brilliant interventional endoscopy program Mauricio Garcia Saenz MD Sumant Inamdar. Grateful to Sherif Andrawes MD 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Hafiz Muzaffar Akbar Khan Jean Chalhoub ASGE GI Endoscopy

Full house at our case conference! Faculty and fellows tackled challenging scenarios with a multidisciplinary approach. 📌 Topic: Atypical Dysphagia Lusoria 🎤 Presenter: GI Fellow Dr. Khazaaleh 👥 Guest: Dr. Random (Vascular Surgery)

The cost of health care: how to make it affordable youtu.be/zkELa_KfOeA?si… via YouTube

Why U.S. Health Care Is Getting More Expensive youtu.be/QRihG16iSug?si… via YouTube

📣 Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 2025–2026 Dr. Motaz Ashkar, M.B.B.S, MSCI Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic – Rochester, MN 🧠 Topic: “Exocrine Pancreatic Dysfunction: How Much Do We Know?”

A honor to have Motaz Ashkar, MD, MSCI at UAMS UAMS Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology for an enlightening Grand Rounds on EPI and UAMS Gut Club with an awesome talk on AIP. Many Thanks!!!

Great time networking at Gut Club last night! Thanks to Motaz Ashkar, MD, MSCI for presenting!

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Thandassery for winning this year’s ACG Gender-Based Research Award! 🏆 He presented his winning work today as an oral presentation at #ACG2025 — a proud moment for UAMS GI! 👏 Inspiring research and well-deserved recognition!

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Suria Devarapalli, PGY-3 at @UAMSMedicine, for receiving a Research Award for her study: “Esophagogastroduodenoscopy for Variceal Screening as a Guideline Reference Checkpoint in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant.” 👏 Outstanding work 👏

EUS-GJ for malignant GOO with previously place duodenal stent obstructed from tumor ingrowth. Complete relief of symptoms, tolerated diet and went home 24 hrs after the procedure. ASGE GI Endoscopy UAMS Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Mauricio Garcia Saenz MD Sumant Inamdar Grateful for the training at SIUH

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Lina Alqirem, PGY-2, for presenting her research abstracts at #ACG2025! Your hard work, dedication, and passion for gastroenterology are truly inspiring. 👏✨ #UAMS #MedTwitter #ACG25 Lina AlQirem Mohammad Alomari, MD Mauricio Garcia Saenz MD

Congratulations to our Internal Medicine resident Drew Castleberry for his outstanding oral presentation at #TLM2025, “Risk Predictors for Recurrent and De Novo MASLD Post Liver Transplantation,” led by Dr. Ragesh Thandassery The future of hepatology looks bright! 🌟 Mauricio Garcia Saenz MD

Congratulations to our resident Suria Devarapalli on presenting “Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in MASLD: A Multicenter VA Study.” Proudly mentored by Dr. Ragesh Thandassery. The future of hepatology looks bright! 🌟 RT Mauricio Garcia Saenz MD

Astrid Ruiz Margáin AASLD Mauricio Garcia Saenz MD Jasmohan Bajaj Marco Arrese, MD Juan Pablo (JP) Arab, MD  Alan Bonder Cristina Alonso Francisco Idalsoaga MD Thank you Astrid Ruiz Margáin for a fantastic TLM25. Big fan of the #MariachiLiverTeam. Thanks for stopping at my poster!