Are you in college, teach college students, have a college student, etc who is interested in clinical research, epidemiology, biostatistics-AND being part of a great program & family? *PLEASE* share widely! Applications open & we'd love to hear from you!

Incredible variety of research in our Division Research Retreat. Promoting team science @PennGIHep

Tonight is our @PennGIHep Research Retreat. These 👇 presenters are the REAL stars. They survived all the candy I threw at them last year (sometimes literally) as 1st year GI fellows, & are now changing the world w/their work in clinical, translational & basic science research!

Huge, important study in Hepatology Communications 1⃣Prevalence of Alcohol-related liver disease, MASLD, and MetALD 2⃣Severity of liver disease by subtype for 🇺🇸 3⃣Impact of social determinants of health journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte… Comprehensive, robust, high impact work Pedro Ochoa-Allemant

I am so excited to see where Tiffany Wu, MD MS takes this Smartphone sensor data estimate alcohol cravings Open access: journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte… #livertwitter

I keep seeing people in the hospital who say they were "lost to care" because they didn't have health insurance. I send every one of them to HealthCare.gov. Enrollment is now: #EnrollByJan16 to #GetCovered. It WILL save your life. & 9 out of 10 get financial assistance.

45 is the NEW 50 ! TUNE in to hear why Representative Tarik Khan is being Proactive about his preventative colon screening with @PennGIHep ‘s very own BlakelyMD ! CRC Screening SAVES lives ! youtu.be/ZxQIao_nchU?si…

REVIEW: Penrice D et al. Telomere dysfunction in chronic liver disease: The link from aging. #LiverTwitter tinyurl.com/y8jbcyp6

1/ Excited to share our work HEPATOLOGY Journal examining the epidemiology and outcomes of patients with MetALD undergoing the transplant process. Using United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry linked to Penn Transplant Institute data, we developed an algorithm to identify MetALD and found: journals.lww.com/hep/abstract/9…

Fellows learning about "Marketing your expertise" 🥼📢 Thank you BlakelyMD for leading it via American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Educators Microgrant to implement the Clinical Practice Readiness curriculum! The future is bright💡 Shazia Siddique MD MS Neilanjan Nandi, MD, FACG, AGAF, FCCF, FACP Iboro Umana Puru Rattan, MD Pedro Ochoa-Allemant

Excited for this newly announced Phase 2 trial of GLP-1s for AUD in patients with ALD by Novo Nordisk US. Clinical trials for this highly prevalent, at-risk group of patients are so rare! and desperately needed. We need more R&D but this is a great start.

Tonight we gathered @PennGIHep UPenn CCEB Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics Penn LDI in the house! Unanimously, the house in which we wanted to be was that of the inspirational Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳. An amazing dinner with amazing colleagues (yes, we may have ordered *every* dessert! 😂) #DDW2024

Next up in our AGA Research Scholar Award feature is @alhecht from @PennGiHep! His research explores diet's impact on gut bacteria in liver disease, predicting infection risks and advancing therapies. Learn more: ow.ly/K7TS50SR7rR 👨‍🔬🔬 #AGAResearchFoundation

📑 Design, implementation, and impact of a #cirrhosis-specific remote patient monitoring program❗️ ⭐️Feasible and Acceptable ⭐️⭐️May lead to ⬇️ readmissions! #OpenAccess #LiverTwitter journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

🟪NEW Article in press❕ Applications of the AI-Cirrhosis-ECG (ACE) score for improving prediction of decompensation and liver-related outcomes in #cirrhosis: A multi-cohort study 🔓#OpenAccess at 👉jhep-reports.eu/article/S2589-… #LiverTwitter #AI

jhep-reports.eu/article/S2589-… Excited to share our latest work in JHEP Reports! This is a long-awaited follow-up to our initial paper in AJG, where we first developed the AI-Cirrhosis-ECG (ACE) score.

HCV NAT+ consent improves liver transplant and waitlist mortality in patients listed for HCC MELD exceptions Puru Rattan, MD journals.lww.com/lt/abstract/99…