All right, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the 2023 ASGE postgraduate course. On behalf of the ASGE and my fellow course directors, we want to thank everyone for joining us today, and we're thrilled to have over 1,100 registered attendees for this hybrid course. We're honored that you chose us to be part of your DDW experience this year, and we know that you're really going to enjoy the program that we've created for you today. My name is Dr. Uzma Siddiqui, and I'm at the University of Chicago. Jonathan Cohen, and I'm at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and we're also just really thrilled that you're here. We hope that you'll come every single year and make this your Sunday DDW experience. And we just want to go over some housekeeping a little bit, but... I'm Vinay Chandrasekhar here from Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Thank you for attending. We have a fantastic lineup. Jon's going to go over some housekeeping items for you at the start, and we'll get started. We also want to give a special thanks to our esteemed faculty. We have 45 GI superstars coming together from around the world, who I know are going to put on an amazing event for you today. All right, now... Great, let's have that a little quicker. Okay, great. Just regarding our conflict of interest, all of the relevant financial relationships listed for the individuals have been mitigated. We require all who are in a position to direct content from the program to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests. All disclosures have been mitigated. I want to thank our sponsors for this program, without which we couldn't really put on this excellent program, Boston Scientific Corporation, Cook Medical, and Lempis Corporation of Americas. As part of our ASG DEI commitment, we ask you to all raise your own awareness related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, while working to also raise awareness in your institution, practice, your colleagues, and the communities you serve. The ASGE postgraduate course will be using a tool called Poll Everywhere throughout the day. You are encouraged to submit questions using your mobile or web browser device. Please take a minute to download the following QR code and join by web directly at PollEV.com slash ASGEPoll, or submit your questions via text message to ASGEPoll to 22333. Please note that this program is being recorded and will be available to you on GI Leap, ASGE's online learning management platform, early in July. We will have ongoing access to all the recordings in GI Leap as part of your registration. So please encourage your colleagues who couldn't make it to DDW, if you found the content valuable, they can register and have access to all the content as well in the coming weeks. It will be available to all of you in early July, and you can access it, play it back, and look at different things if you missed a slide and it went back too fast. This course has been approved for eight AMA PRA Category 1 credits and approved from ABIM Maintenance of Certification or Mock Points. In addition to your course registration, you'll have access to presentations and bonus material, which is new for us this year. So each session has a structured bonus content. For example, the first session on GI Bleeding will have bonus content available on GI Bleeding that's available, that's extracurricular on GI Leap. At the conclusion of the course, we'd really appreciate if you would provide your feedback. We actually look at this in great detail to structure the content of the course. So it's very helpful for us to keep improving upon year over year. So if there's something that you really liked, please let us know so we can highlight it more for next year. And we're ready to get started. Enjoy the course.

2023 ASGE postgraduate course

hybrid course

DDW experience

Dr. Uzma Siddiqui

Jonathan Cohen