Humbled to contribute to this important piece by
Dana Smith in the The New York Times alongside leaders in the field Dr. Mellinger, Rohit Loomba, @RJWong333

#ALD is on the rise. Prevention, early detection, and timely treatment are key to changing this trend.

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Fewer than 5% of patients with alcohol-associated cirrhosis receive medications to treat their alcohol use disorder. Let's close the care gap! Check out our new review in Clinical Therapeutics. #ALD #AUD #livertwitter #MedTwitter Isabelle Byers

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Honored to work at a center that values evidence-based care for our patients with #ALD - thank you and congrats to Hersh Shroff for paving the way for multidisciplinary ALD care UNC Liver Center

In the 📕 #RedJournal :

The Ongoing Debate of Serum Ammonia Levels in Cirrhosis: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD & Andrew M. Moon, MD, MPH

👉 bit.ly/3XtqkEa
#gastroenterology Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD Andrew Moon #GItwitter #LiverTwitter

Honored to have published this letter to the editor at GIE with mentors UNC Gastroenterology on changing unacceptable 'master and slave' terminology in the description of robot-assisted endoscopic platforms. Language matters. #GItwitter #MedTwitter

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When should you order serum ammonia levels in cirrhosis? The answer is not as straightforward as you may think. Check out this high yield article I wrote with Andrew Moon in AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology for more info #livertwitter #MedTwitter #cirrhosis #ACG #AJG journals.lww.com/ajg/Abstract/2…

Excellent reporting by The New York Times Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ Sarah Kliff on NYU Langone Health #NYU #NYU Langone This article grapples with very real questions and concerns about healthy equity, with an ever-widening wealth gap in our country. #medtwitter #healthequity #equity

Good #Nutrition in cirrhosis is essential to providing high-quality care and improving outcomes. Learn more from Sarah Uttal and her Liver Fellow Network Clinical Pearls Post 'Malnutrition in the Adult with Cirrhosis' #livertwitter liverfellow.org/post/malnutrit…

We are so excited to announce our next fellowship class ⁦UNC Gastroenterology⁩! These 4 have amazing futures in Chapel Hill! We would like to thank all the amazing applicants we met along the way. The future is bright in GI! ⁦Edward Barnes MD MPH⁩ ⁦Neil Shah, MD⁩ ⁦Nick Shaheen⁩

Excellent talk on management of alcoholic hepatitis at #TLM22 AASLD by Dr. Jessica Mellinger

1) microbiome important
2) AUD treatment improves outcome but underused
3) Promising preliminary data in naltrexone and spironolactone for AUD in ALD

#LiverTwitter #AASLD #TLM22

Come watch my cofellow Patrick Campbell and me debate a clinical topic in liver disease on Friday, November 4th at at #TLM22 AASLD Foundation AASLD - No spoilers ahead of time, but I promise it will be interesting and fun! Shoutout to our debate coach Neil Shah, MD

It’s been an honor to review for AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology - the articles have been interesting and it improves how I think about methods and how to interpret results in my own research. Thank you ACG and AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Excited to be joining the fantastic Patty Pringle Bloom, M.D. and Jeremy Louissaint for American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) #GastroBites on Wednesday October 19th at Noon to discuss Improving Cirrhosis Care.

Hope to see you there!

Registration: agau.gastro.org/diweb/catalog/…

Get ready for Jessica Musto's Clinical Pearls case tomorrow by answering the following poll! 👇

#MedEd #FOAMed #livertwitter #GITwitter #MedTwitter

Hepatic encephalopathy is now the most common first liver-related event (PMID: 34670043)

Why?

Join Jeremy Louissaint, Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD, and I as we discuss the changing epidemiology of #cirrhosis and HE in CGH
Link: cghjournal.org/article/S1542-… #livertwitter

Check out our research highlighted in Newsweek

ALD mortality is on the rise, and accelerated during the pandemic. We must:

1) Improve screening in healthcare settings
2) Decrease stigma to improve engagement in care
3) Expand access to ALD and AUD treatment

#livertwitter

Check out my interview on 97.9 The Hill on rising alcohol-associated liver disease mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic with a shout-out to senior author Andrew Moon

Research UNC Liver Center UNC Gastroenterology

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Preparing a talk

Some tips🧵