Only @EndoTX could manage to win Grand Nationals 🥇 and publish an NEJM editorial in the same week: Drainage for Infected Pancreatic Necrosis — Is the Waiting the Hardest Part? | buff.ly/3DzUdbQ

I got my COVID-19 booster shot! (At the N.C. State Fair!!) Boosters provide ongoing protection against COVID-19. Those eligible should go out and get their booster today! Find a vaccine near you at MySpot.nc.gov💉

Exciting to see @DukeGI so well represented at #ACG2021. Enjoy Vegas! ACG @DKothariGI Alyson M Johnson, MD Amit Patel, MD, AGAF, FACG Katie Garman BrianSullivanGI Honne @Duke_liverdoc Dr Deborah Fisher Jackie Henson Kara Wegermann Anthony Horton Talisha Ramchal

Passing the torch: It's been the academic honor of a lifetime to edit AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology w/ Brian Lacy. 6 yrs and a pandemic later, we now hand the keys to Millie Long & Jasmohan Bajaj as they navigate AJG through its next unchartered era. And who knew we'd get hats on the way out! #ACG2021

Wonderful to see Duke GI icon Dr Dawn Provenzale honored by ACG with the Distinguished Mentorship and Teaching Award at the #ACG2021 meeting in Las Vegas last night. Such an appropriate tribute to someone who gave so much to the field Duke Department of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine

Important messages on sexual health for patients with #PSC by Duke Department of Medicine resident James Helzberg at #ACG2021 poster P0703 today ACG Jackie Henson PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Andrew Muir

Duke GI #ACG2021 poster P0013 today highlights recommendation to initiate oral feeding within 24 hours in acute pancreatitis. Congrats to all the Duke Department of Medicine trainees and mentors Alyson M Johnson, MD Spaete & @DKothariGI

What to do for the patient with GERD and refractory symptoms? Great strategies for this and other patients with GERD in talk by Amit Patel, MD, AGAF, FACG available for viewing on the #ACG2021 platform ACG

Check out poster P1200 from Talisha Ramchal at #ACG2021 Monday. Great case of an ascending colon mass that is not cancer and a good outcome for the patient. ACG Yuval Patel Honne Anna Veerappan

Congrats to Peggy Tatum and The Connection Place Peggy Tatum on receiving NC GI Society grant “The Gut Patrol” to raise awareness and prevention of GI cancers through #colorectalcancer screening and #Hypylori testing. Such important work! Katie Garman

Important talk at #ACG2021 by Julius Wilder MD PhD "Liver Transplant Continuum Among Marginalized Minorities: Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles" available for viewing on the meeting platform Duke Clinical Research Institute Duke Department of Medicine

Congrats to Dr. Ruth Gilliam Phillips and CommHealth Coalition for their NC GI Society grant “Preventing Colorectal Cancer Deaths through COVID-19 Outreach” as they try to improve access to colorectal screening for Africa Americans and impact #healthcaredisparities Julius Wilder MD PhD

What an amazing presentation ACG presidential plenary by Kim Weaver MD. Way to represent UNC Gastroenterology! Teaching us about efficacy of SARS-Cov2 vaccine in #ibd Michael Kappelman, MD, MPH

Financial toxicity in cirrhosis more common in women. See #ACG2021 poster P1797 (S1161) Monday. Congrats to Duke University School of Medicine student Kostantinos Morris on this important study Andrew Muir ACG Julius Wilder MD PhD Elizabeth King Goacher, PA-C, AF-AASLD (she/her)

Duke GI #ACG2021 poster P1084 Monday highlights opportunity to increase cholecystectomy rate during admission with gallstone pancreatitis @DKothariGI Alyson M Johnson, MD ACG

Is CTA over utilized in GI bleeding? #ACG2021 poster P1529 (S668) Monday by Anthony Horton of Duke GI evaluates predictors of positive CTA. 55.8% from colon or rectal source. ACG

So wonderful to be at ⁦ACG meeting⁩ with these lovely physician scientists from ⁦UNC Gastroenterology⁩. Congrats to all these #ladytarheels who are presenting their work! ⁦Edward Barnes MD MPH⁩ ⁦Nick Shaheen⁩

Amazing talk and such an honor to have Dr. Hirschfield. Thansk to Julius Wilder MD PhD for a great discussion

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Very honored to be in this lineup of brilliant women, summarizing the inspiring work of our community! What a meeting! Carla Brady @Duke_liverdoc AASLD AASLD President