Hi, everyone, we'd like to welcome you to the ASGE live colonoscopy symposium. My name is Thao Nhi Ngam Leung Phung from Johns Hopkins Hospital, a co-course director along with Dr. Doug Rex. This course will focus on lesion characterization, diagnosis, basic and advanced endoscopic resection of colorectal lesions. Faculty will talk to us every step on how you do it during live demonstration. It's my pleasure to introduce our national and international faculty, Dr. Edward Despord from Royal Free Hospital, London, Dr. Helmut Messmann from University Hospital in Augsburg, Dr. Heiken Poe from VA Medical Center in Hartford, Dr. Greg Heber from NYU, Dr. Aristando Repicci from Humanitas Hospital in Milan, Dr. Charles Kahi from Indiana University, Dr. Mohamed Othman from Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Patrick Sharma from University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Brad Peterson from Mayo Clinic Rochester, and Dr. Yutaka Asaito from National Cancer Center, Tokyo. And I'd like to introduce our course operation directors, Dr. Venkat Ashintala from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Dr. Linda Chang from St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia. We'd like to thank our sponsors for their generous support of this course, Irby, Olympus, Boston Scientific, and Ravelry. Just a couple housekeeping notes for all of the moderators and speakers. If you are not speaking, please have yourself on mute. For participants, use the Q&A box at the bottom right-hand side of your screen to send us your questions. We will try to answer as many questions as possible during live sessions. The remaining questions will be answered throughout the day in the Q&A box. So with that, Venkat, over to you.

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