Do behavioral economic interventions improve HCC surveillance⁉️

Ultrasound Surveillance:
🔸Usual Care: 26.6% 😞
🔸Letter➕Order: 54.5%‼️
🔸Letter➕Order➕💵: 54.1%

📣 Outreach is effective!

journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

We are super excited to announce our UWGASTRO 2024-25 incoming class of GI fellows to UW Medicine #Seattle #gastroenterology !! We look forward to working with you all. 🙌🙌🙌
Welcome to Drs. Maya Biermann, Kaitlyn Carlson, Maria Cassera, Nisha Ganesh & Brian Ko!!

Helpful tips/updates on how to treat pruritus in cholestatic liver disease ⤵️ #TLM23

Who is looking forward to #TLM2023 debate⁉️

🥊🔥UCLA Gastroenterology and Hepatology & Montefiore Gastroenterology will be debating routine hepatology follow up for patients w/ #MASLD without advanced fibrosis

🗓️Nov 11
⏰4-5p ET
📍Ballroom A - Hynes Convention Center

aasld.org/the-liver-meet…

#livertwitter #GITwitter

Join me for the 🆓 AGA-AASLD Academic Skills Workshop, March 16-17, 2024.
➡️Early career GIs/Heps
➡️GI fellows
➡️ Interested in academic medicine ➡️Proven career advancement strategies
➡️App due December 12: ow.ly/oh2b50Q55cw
ABGH American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) AASLD

Highlights from the HCC session this afternoon #TLM23 AASLD
* Median OS from 1st line systemic therapy for HCC is now ~2 years! 👍
* Neoadjuvant tx to downstage ➡️ expand resection criteria
* Systemic tx is moving UP (to include earlier stages of HCC)
* More to come!

💡Potential AI applications in hepatology research:
➡️Data extraction
➡️Summarize existing literature
➡️Code development
➡️Predictive modeling
➡️Augmented clinical decision support
➡️Provider-patient communication
AASLD #TLM23

Standing room only for this exciting session on AI in Hepatology #TLM23 ! 👏🏼 Jin Ge Ashley Spann AASLD

Y-90 for liver cancer

This review is amazing and taught me so much journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte… #livertwitter Anjana Pillai

University of Washington is looking for a new **HEPATOLOGY SECTION CHIEF**
➡️Starting as early as July 1, 2024
➡️Lead one of the best group of hepatology providers in the world
apply.interfolio.com/131772

💥 #NAFLDNomenclature no more! It’s now #MASLDNomenclature ‼️

AASLD @Hep_Journal: [journals.lww.com/hep/10.1097/HE…] in a joint publication with ALEH EASLnews
#LiverTwitter #EndoTwitter

📑 A practical framework to better organize and address the many factors contributing to #disparities in #HCC care!!

⭐️Apply the #NIMHD research framework + HCC care pathway!
#LiverTwitter #HealthEquity #OpenAccess Nicole Kim MD, MPH

journals.lww.com/hepcomm/Fullte…

🚨 #ManuscriptMonday 🚨
Coagulopathy & hemostasis management in patients undergoing liver #transplantation in Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal)

by AST LICOP members: Anjana Pillai Michael Kriss, MD Brett E Fortune MD Ryan Chadha Pratima Sharma, MD et al

aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lt…

#livertwitter

A multicenter, retrospective study of thermal ablation vs SBRT for HCC now online in Hepatology Communications

😄Thrilled to see this labor of love in its final form!

🙏Thanks to all my incredible collaborators and to Hepatology Communications!

Link: journals.lww.com/hepcomm/pages/…

💡Wondered about how to best allocate non-directed living liver donations?

➡️ check out our model to identify potential recipients based on predicted graft survival!

UWGASTRO Liver/Intestinal Community of Practice - AST #ldlt #MachineLearning

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Factors Associated w/Liver #Transplant Referral Among Patients w/ #Cirrhosis at Multiple Safety-Net Hospitals
by MIGNOTE YILMA, MD Nicole Kim MD, MPH et al

Only 28% of MELD>15 were referred for LT

♂️, Black race, uninsured status & 🏥 site were assoc w/⬇️referral

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Thank you UW Medicine Newsroom for sharing our study! MIGNOTE YILMA, MD Kali Zhou

➡️ more work needs to be done to address gaps in LT referrals (esp from safety-net settings)!

A #RapidRCTinAJG :
Consumption of 2 Green 🥝Kiwifruits🥝 Daily Improves Constipation and Abdominal Comfort—Results of an International Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
Gearry, et al.

journals.lww.com/ajg/pages/arti…

Jasmohan Bajaj Millie Long

Impact of Race+Ethnicity on cirrhosis outcomes:
🔥it's complicated & not what you think:

- Hispanic ⬆️HCC risk than White
- Black ⬇️HCC risk than White
- Black ⬇️cirrhosis decompensation than White
- Black+Hispanic ⬇️mortality than White

Trang VoPham
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37186549/

Congrats Jin Ge! Coming soon to a hospital near you - CirrhosisRX 👍 #DDW2023 #sharktank