Welcome. My name is Arnold Markowitz. I'm going to be chairing today's course. I'm from Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. I want to welcome everyone here to the ASGE IT&T Center here in Downers Grove. We appreciate everybody making the trip in, in person. In addition, we do have a few people joining us virtually. Are they able to hear our remarks? Okay, good. So we're going to begin with a welcome. I have a series of slides to welcome everyone and go through some housekeeping and logistics. And then we'll begin with an interactive session to talk a little bit about what it is that we do as gastroenterologists and how we interact with our industry partners. And this is a great opportunity to get to know each other a little bit better and to get to know a little bit about what issues we all address from both sides of the fence to see how we can increase our understanding of what each other do and how we can perhaps increase communication and access. So let me begin by introducing the course faculty. We have Ayo Abagande here from Loyola joining us. We have Brooke Glessing from University Hospitals Cleveland. We have Gauri Kanageddy joining us from Scripps Clinic from California, as well as Bill Turney here from the University of Oklahoma. And most importantly, I just want to welcome all of our industry partners. We have them all listed here. We appreciate everyone joining us today for this seminar. And we hope that this helps to increase your understanding of some of the disease states that we deal with and helps for you to see how your devices, your pharmaceuticals, may have a role in managing these diseases in both diagnosis and therapy. And between the didactic lectures, where we're going to go through normal physiology and anatomy, as well as the disease states, we're hoping that by increasing education and understanding, we'll be able to better work together. So why ARIA? Our hope is that the ASGE and industry will continue to work together very closely. And this helps to increase research into these areas and to bring new products to market. It also helps to educate GI physicians, our colleagues, and their teams about new and existing pharmaceuticals, devices, testing mechanisms, and techniques and technologies, as well as new and existing procedures. And the mission of ARIA is to use the ASGE's strength as an education society, to educate industry representatives about GI and the needs of our patients, as well as to foster relationships between our society and industry, and to partner to improve patient care. So our objectives today are to understand basic GI anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology, including the healthy GI tract, commonly encountered GI diseases, and endoscopic findings. We want to improve communications with the GI team, so we'll have up-to-date knowledge of GI clinical practice and strategies used to provide optimal patient care and how you can help us, and to become recognized for your continued professional development. So earning the ARIA Certificate of Completion, the ARIA Seal, as well as to look for ongoing opportunities for education. To briefly review our agenda today, we'll begin with our interactive discussion about a day in the life of the gastroenterologist. Again, this will help give us better insight into what each of us do, both from the physician side as well as from the industry side, and see how we can increase our interactions and understanding of what each other do. Then we'll go into didactic lectures from the faculty. We'll begin with the GI tract and health, so we'll go over normal anatomy and GI physiology. It's always good to have a basic understanding of normal before we discuss the disease states. We'll have a break, and then we'll have additional lectures about the GI tract and disease. We'll then break for a group photo, so that we have a nice documentation of all of us spending the day together. We'll have a lunch break, and then we're going to have our bioskills lab session. This is always a highlight of the ARIA course. It gives us the opportunity for hands-on working with the devices and our endoscopic equipment. We get to interact together, and we work on an animal model. I think everybody will enjoy that part of the course. The faculty here will all work together with you on the hands-on sessions in person. We also have some prerecorded video sessions that Bill Turney will work on with our virtual participants. We'll then have an afternoon break, and then we'll come back for case-based discussions. We have some great cases that we can work through regarding some different GI illnesses. And then we will finish with part two of a day in the life of a gastroenterologist. So our thinking is that as the day goes on, and we get to know each other a little better, and talk about how we all work from both the physician side and from the industry side, there'll be more topics of interest that will come up, and we can address them in the afternoon session. And then we'll complete with some final questions and comments to end the day at 4 o'clock. Everyone should be aware that we have free Wi-Fi available, and you can just point your browser to ASGE Guest Network. No password is necessary, and you should all have access to Wi-Fi. There are microphones on the desks in front of everyone. They're at the center of the table. And to activate the microphone, just press the button labeled Push. The light will turn green, indicating that you're live. And you don't have to keep your finger down on the button. Just press it once. And then to deactivate it, press it again, and the green light will extinguish. Just of note, the course will be recorded. So we appreciate that if you do ask questions, and we very much hope that you do, please use the microphone so that we can be sure that your questions and our answers are recorded. In regards to virtual participants, we do have some joining us today. So we request that you use the question and answer portion of the screen on the bottom. You can see it highlighted here on the slide to ask your questions. Please use the Q&A rather than the chat function. Just to give you an idea of where the Bioskills Lab is located, we're here in the auditorium. So to the right of the screen, you can see conference room on the top and auditorium to the bottom. We're all in the auditorium. When we leave the auditorium through the doors across the hall are washrooms, both male and female washrooms. You actually go through the washrooms, through the locker area, and then into the BioLabs space. Please avoid bringing food and drink into the lab. There are lockers and a table available in the locker room for you. Once you go into the lab, we ask that you put a gown on over your clothes and your station number will be indicated on the front of your badge. We do have an audience response system and it's called Slido and this is how you connect to it. You can aim your phone's camera at the QR code and a Slido website will present and using a web browser, go to the Slido.com site and enter the meeting number. Ed, do we have that number? Let's see. I think it's coming up. It's coming up. It's coming up. Is it coming up, Trevor? Okay, great. That's just a sample that you have up there right now. Okay, great. Is everybody able to connect? Oh, on the next one, excuse me. On the next one. There you go. Sorry. Thank you. Okay, great. So, I guess, can we actually do the sample question now? Yeah. It should be activating. Go ahead and... Okay. Everyone should be activated, so go ahead and use this as a sample question. So, how large is the BioSkills Lab here at the ASGI T&T Center? Go ahead and take a guess. And do I just go to the next slide in order to... There you go. Okay, great. So, top choice was 2,800 square feet. So, do we know that that's the correct answer? It is. So, 2,800 feet. Okay, great. Question number two. A 56-year-old male has three small subcentimeter tubular adenomas. These are polyps removed from their sigmoid colon during colonoscopy. The individual has no personal or family history of colon polyps or cancer, so when should the next colonoscopy be? Five, and the recommendation is... Five years. Okay. That's okay. All right. And question number three. How long have you been involved in the GI field community? A lot of people with a good amount of experience. Okay, great. It's nice to see the breakdown. And welcome to the people who are in the field for less than a month, especially. Welcome, everyone. Okay, great. And then finally, there will be a post-assessment of the course, and the due date for this is April 15th, so there's plenty of time. And the passing score will be 80% or more on the post-assessment test. And this is available online.

gastroenterology course

ARIA Certificate of Completion

interactive discussions

post-assessment test

April 15th