see you all here. My name is Keith Obstine, that way you can see my face. How are you all? Good, welcome. Thanks. So I just wanna take the opportunity first and foremost to thank you for taking the time out of your day to be here and tomorrow to be here with us. We have an exciting program planned for you and hope you enjoy it. Please, please, it works best. If there's questions, ask. I'm gonna give you a little pearls through the introductory session as well. I also wanna thank Michelle and Ed and the ASGE team for helping in getting this all together and putting this on. And I also wanna thank Chris and Nicole from your team for also all their help in getting this organized and put together, so thank you. Yeah, let's give a round of applause, good. So without further ado, you have a great group of faculty here, you have experts from around the country in all things GI who are educators from all different settings, practices, et cetera. This is a very old blurry picture of me, I thought my eyesight was going, but I had more hair then than I have now, which is how you know it's an older photo. But then we have great faculty. So Adam Booth will be joining us live via Zoom as our pathology lecture there. We have Alexis Calloway over here from Digestive Health in Atlanta. We have Walter Chan from the Brigham and all these individuals will be around, so please ask, talk with them, who's an EOE expert. We have Walt Coyle from Scripps who's the director of GI there. Neil Gupta will be joining us in the lab as well, he's a hands-on master at endoscopy. Stephen Kim from UCLA, he's in the back there, he's a therapeutic endoscopist from UCLA. Jen Lightdale over here, she's gonna be up front here first. She's also pediatric GI, so we know based on our EOE programs that this is very, very important. We have Rishi Nayak from Vanderbilt who's an expert in EOE and esophageal disorders. We have Daryl Pardee from Mayo Clinic who's one of the deans and an expert in IBD and GI. And we have Namesha Parekh as well who's from Irvine who's one of our associate deans of faculty development and GI and IBD. So ARIA, just a couple pointers here, why ARIA? We work closely with industry and pharma as physicians, as GI. And so one of the key things and one of the key aspects that we like to look at is how do you partner together? Obviously everybody has different motivations and agenda but at the end of the day, it's patient care that we wanna accomplish, the patient comes first and foremost. And so if we can effectively work better because each of our knowledge bases is on the same field, then we can have a better relationship and we can take better care of that patient. And so that's where the ARIA program is really founded in. And so if we can help to educate staff, team members, industry reps, device reps, et cetera, on what we do in the day, then it gives you more insight, it gives us more insight into what you wanna do and we can care for the patient better. And so that's really the goals of the ARIA program. And there's new procedures, there's new meds, there's new devices that come out and it's an opportunity for us to share that collectively. ASGE's mission is to train gastroenterologists, especially endoscopists in the world and make sure that we achieve a high level of quality there. And then we're really trying to foster those relationships, as I said, to improve patient care. So the objectives today, we're gonna go through a lot of material, it's gonna seem like a whirlwind. You completed your pre-test, thanks for those who did it. We have those results, good work. You'll get a post-test and have the opportunity to do it again. But we have Healthy GI Track and then with health comes disease, so we'll do a disease talk as well. We're gonna go through some endoscopy because that's one of the fun stuff that we do. You're gonna get your hands on the endoscope. How many of you wanna do endoscopy? Oh yeah, right there in the back, I see it right away, hands up, amen. And then we get kind of improved communication. So we have a series of different panel discussions, different educational formats where there's question and answer, there's panels there and what we can do to improve, all of us collectively. And then for your participation, you become recognized as a participant in this program officially by the society there and there's opportunities for ongoing engagement there as well. So this tombstone of a slide, we call it a tombstone because it's a lot of writing, if it fell over you would be, is our schedule. You have it all in front of you, but just to review, you're gonna see there's a bunch of different things on here, there's gonna be some lectures, there's a day in the life session, so it's sort of like the Donahue where I'm going through and we're asking our panel members what they think and thoughts there, there will be no Jerry Springer chair throws, but we're gonna go through that. Then we're gonna go to group sessions as well and then we split and I'll explain this in a minute, but some go to hands on and then some do overviews of EOE and smaller group sessions there. We'll have a knowledge check in. Now, this is a fun thing, right, so it's a game. So around noon you're gonna get an email from Michelle, from us at ASG. Don't go into that yet, don't open it, just get it. Because when you come back and we do the session in the afternoon, you'll open that email, you take about 15 minutes at the front, it's a game, it's a trivia game that you'll play against all your colleagues here on your personal device. And then we'll get the scores put together and we have prizes for the winner. So if you don't know, that's fine. If you do know, answer, we'll go prizes and I'll go through those answers as well. We got a today and tomorrow, it's a lot of fun. So just be on the lookout for that. Check your spam. And then we'll have a reception and go from there. The next day is very similar. There's group sessions again, lectures, and then we have our core knowledge presentations. And then we have the prizes. Some of them are good, some of them are better. All right, so on your badges, I don't know, Peter, where is Peter? Peter, I picked yours out of the thing this morning, you're the demo. So on everybody's badges you're gonna be like, whoa, there's our name, great. But then there's a sticker, it'll be a color sticker. Those are for tomorrow, that's how we rotate your groups of three through that. But in the bottom, you're gonna see there's an A and B under the group. So I'll announce who stays in here for the sort of lecture series, group A, and group B will go into the Animal Lab. And then we flip-flop that. Station is just where you are in the Animal Lab. So we have nine or 10 stations in there. Every station will be labeled. So just look for what station you're at and that's how you know you're in your small group. And then the back for tomorrow, those are our breakouts. And that's the rotation in there, right? So we have three sort of separate things. We got one where we're having a patient come virtually with us and you'll get to interview and talk with the patient. Actually, Dr. Naik will be interviewing one of the patients who has EOE, which is always fun. And we'll talk about some different stuff. So you're gonna get a variety of different educational experiences. Here's the most important thing, free Wi-Fi, right? So you can tweet out how much fun you're having, post selfies, you know, that kind of thing. No passwords needed. And accept use. BioSkills Lab is right behind us over here. So there's locker rooms, men's and women's. You can go through there. There are scrubs in there if you need. There's lockers with keys, like you were at the old amusement park. Remember, you'd lock your stuff and take the key. So you can leave your stuff in there and lock it there. And then we go right through to the animal lab. We've talked about name badges. We have gowns in there and stuff for you. So it should be pretty low stress. The main thing is get your hands on the endoscope. It's fun, it's your opportunity. Post-test is the thing that's like Ajita. July 15th, okay? So you're gonna get a post-test thing. Fill that out, put it in. You get above 80%, you win, and you get the seal and stuff like that. Sound good? Yes. All right. So you ready to get started? All right, let's do it. So thanks again. I'm gonna introduce our first speaker here. This is gonna be Dr. Lightdale. She is gonna talk to us about the esophagus and the stomach in health. So Dr. Lightdale, thanks for coming.

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