Ohio where I am professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and I'm a therapeutic endoscopist. I work both at the university at the Cleveland VA Medical Center and I am happy to co-course direct with John Martin. John. Thank you very much Ashley. It's an incredible pleasure to work with you this morning and all day today. Again my name is John Martin. I am at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. I'm an associate professor there associate chair for endoscopy program director and consultant and of course this is ASGE ERCP master class. We welcome you this morning. First let's talk a bit about ASGE's commitment to higher education. The members who designed this educational activity were carefully selected for their content expertise teaching excellence and professionalism on the topics being presented. ASGE requires all who are in a position to direct content from this program to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests which are defined as ACCME defined ineligible companies. Financial relationships in any amount are considered a potential conflict of interest and are peer reviewed and resolved according to ASGE's educational conflict of interest policy and procedure prior to the start of this program. ASGE requires all who lead educational activities to declare conflicts of interest as well as demonstrate the highest professional ideals. The course directors for this activity have no financial interests or relationships to disclose. Ashley? ASGE wants to thank our generous supporters who helped through educational grants to support this program. This course is supported in part by grants from Boston Scientific Corporation, Cook Medical, Fujifilm, Healthcare Americas Corporation and Olympus Corporation of the Americas and we want to also thank our exhibitor Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation for supporting this program. Please do ask questions during the panel discussions. We really want this to be a highly interactive activity and program and so we highly encourage you to ask questions. When you do so though please use the Q&A function and not chat. Do not use the chat function to ask questions during the panel discussion. In addition please help us to improve future courses by completing the online evaluation form on GI LEAP. There are complete instructions that are included in your course materials but this really helps us to decide you know we change these series year to year based on member preferences so please fill those out when we're done. And then just a word about ASGE's commitment and our request of you. Use your voice to advance the endoscopic profession regardless of race, color, gender, identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, geographic location, physical abilities, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation. Maintain a professional dialogue that's relevant and respectful to all and raise your own awareness related to diversity, equity, and inclusion while working to also raise awareness in your institution, practice, and the communities that you serve. Thank you.

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