you. My name is Asma Shaukat. I am at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York. My course co-directors are Amit Rastogi from University of Kansas and Professor Michael Borg from University of Sydney, Director of Endoscopy at the Westmead Hospital. Dr. Borg, it's the middle of the night for him, so he will be joining us towards the second half of this program. So welcome. We wanted to start with a few housekeeping and other announcements. ASG is committed to higher education and managing conflicts of interest. Anybody who's in a position to direct content must disclose all financial relationships, and these are listed in your course material and have been mitigated by the organizers. We would like to thank the generous support of our partners. We have educational grants from Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, Fujifilm Healthcare, Olympus Corporation, and Pentax Medical. And a special thanks to our exhibitor today, Fujifilm Healthcare. You will be able to interact with them during our lunch break. So please make sure you visit and chat with them. A few housekeeping announcements. If you wish to ask questions, and we really hope to make this a very interactive course, please post your question at the bottom of your screen under Q&A. If you hit that button, it should open up a box for you to type your question. And once you hit send, we will be seeing that question and bringing it up. So let's look forward to a lively presentation. And a note that all the presentations will be uploaded in GI Leap. They will be available 15 days from today. So the slides and the recording will be available. So we hope you will be able to use that. And also please fill the course evaluation and your CME credit for this course. And this will all be available in GI Leap, which is ASGE's learning platform. And just to reiterate, ASGE is committed to raising awareness to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And we encourage all of you to do so also at your institutions, practice, or the communities that we serve. And we also encourage you to take advantage and receive additional discounts by registering for other ASGE courses, particularly getting discounts as an ASGE member. So with that, I think we're ready to get started. Thank you. All right. Good morning. I'll just say a couple of words before you start, Asma. I'm Amit Rastogi from the University of Kansas, and it's a pleasure to be here. We're looking forward to a very exciting day, as you said, and Dr. Buck will be joining us later. So let's, without further ado, let's get things rolling.

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