Hello, everyone. My name is Joe Vicari, and along with Jill Olmstead, a nurse practitioner in California, I co-chair the ASGE Advanced Practice Provider Task Force. Today I'd like to talk to you about our upcoming annual GI Advanced Practice Provider course and other educational items offered by ASGE. This year's course will be offered on March 31st and April 1st. The first day will be onboarding, and you'll see lectures on creating a high-quality consultation, optimizing the role of APPs from onboarding to continued professional development, work-life satisfaction, and building APP leaders, which we think is an important topic as we start to build future GI APP leaders. You'll find these topics and other interesting onboarding topics. On day two, and we'll see some of this in the end of day one, but day two will be devoted to the clinical portion of the course. There's an excellent lecture by John Martin, one of your co-directors on abnormal liver tests. There'll also be a discussion of the management of liver disease complications. We have a talk on celiac disease, a very nice update on acute pancreatitis, and evaluation and management of inflammatory bowel disease. Just to mention a few of the topics we'll be covering this course. Last year we had over 200 of your colleagues join us, so we're looking to continue to grow our course. We think it's a great learning experience. The course will be live, virtual, and on-demand. It's a very friendly course, and the faculty and directors are really excited about this year's course. Really a great benefit to participating in the course is a free one-year membership to ASGE. In August of 2022, we started the ASGE APP cases a month. You will have free access to that every month. We've had great feedback on this case. Your colleagues are really enjoying this case. All the cases are written with APPs and physicians. If you have any interest in writing a case, please email us after the course, and we can get you involved in writing a case. The case is in Practical Solutions newsletter on a monthly basis in a section called the APP angle. Will you find the case of the month and other pertinent and important information for APPs? You will also have access to IGIE, which is a new online open access journal by ASGE. It's quarterly. There is a section again titled APP angle, and in it, you will find articles that are devoted to you, our APP colleagues. We may have our first article in the March issue. We will definitely have two or three articles starting in the June issue, so be on the lookout for that. Of course, you have access to gastrointestinal endoscopy. Some of the things we're hoping to implement this year is a quarterly webinar. We have thoughts about including a journal club-style presentation on important articles that are released or presentations on topics that you feel are based on feedback from APPs that would be important to discuss, so we're pretty excited about that. And then at DDW this year, we are currently developing an APP symposium. It's a 90-minute symposium. In this symposium, we're really trying to reach out to our physician colleagues to help them build practices, build APP programs within practices to create a successful, efficient, and productive APP program, one based in collegiality, on education, and delivering high-quality care for APPs. If you are at DDW and want to stop in, you'll find some of the topics that I mentioned earlier covered in addition to one or two other topics, so please feel free to stop in. Most importantly, please tell your mentor physicians, your physician colleagues to please come see us at DDW. Our goal is to make sure we build successful GI APP teams with the goal simply of creating high-quality care for our patients. So with that, I'll finish up and let you know that starting next week, we're going to have the ASGE APP tip of the week, and that'll be for three consecutive weeks leading up to our course in, as I said, on March 31st and April 1st. And there'll be clinical topics, so please be on the lookout for that.

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