absolutely delighted that almost 200 of you have registered for the next day and a half for the Senior Fellows Program. So on behalf of Klaus Mergner and myself, we're truly delighted that you've taken this time and this effort out of your schedule. We also want to thank our various educational grant sponsors because without them, this is actually a difficult task to present. I'm sure all of you who've been part of GI Jeopardy will realize that. So I want to give a special shout out to HSA Healthcare, Medtronic, GI Solutions and Pentax Medical. In addition, they are the exhibitors and I would certainly ask that you spend some time with them during the breakout sessions. As you will see from the program, our faculty are leading experts in their field. They come to you from East Coast, West Coast and everywhere in between with every type of practice experience that you can think of. So I would very much encourage you to ask questions, interact with them. They will be delighted to try and answer them for you. For those of you who are in virtual land, we have liaisons here in the room with us at the IT&T Center to try and answer your questions or certainly to field questions to the appropriate people. However, I will ask that you use the Q&A button in your virtual land and not the chat button. And then like all courses and the generation of future courses, it's really important to us to get your feedback. And the best way to try and do that in this modern era is online evaluation. This is incredibly important if possible that you could complete this for us. It's on GILeap. And of course, the instructions will be included in your course materials. So now that we've put some of the housekeeping, shall I say, out of the way, I would like to start and introduce our first presenter this evening.

Senior Fellows Program

faculty members

virtual attendees

online evaluation

first presenter