Good morning, everyone. Let's go ahead and take our seats and we'll get started. It's really great to see a vibrant group here at the ASG IT&T Center. How many of you have been here before? Raise your hand. So maybe 20% or 25%. So that's great. All of you that are here for the first time, we really hope you enjoy your experience here. We consider it a state-of-the-art learning center for medical education, and that, along with our program, hopefully will really create some professional growth for you. I'm Dr. Bill Tierney. Please call me Bill. Don't have to call me Dr. Tierney, but please call me Bill. And I am honored to lead a group of faculty here today on what is a custom course for Sanofi and for Regeneron on EOE. Our faculty that we have are really custom-picked, and they're really position players, if you will. And that includes Dr. Ayo Abagunde, who's at Loyola here in Chicago. He'll be joining us tomorrow, or later today, excuse me, to help in the bioskills lab and do some of the training sessions there. Dr. Nimi Gonzalez is an international expert on EOE. Many of you have probably heard of her or know her, and she will be leading many of our important didactic sessions and interactive discussions on EOE. Dr. Femi Qasem is also at Loyola, and she is here and is part of the ARIA committee, the ASG ARIA committee, which oversees all of the ARIA programs for ASGE. Dr. Jennifer Lightdale, who's now at no longer at UMass Medical Center, she's at Boston Children's Hospital, and is a pediatric gastroenterologist and will be able to share with you the pediatric perspective of EOE. My colleague, Dr. John Martin, is at the Mayo Clinic, nationally and internationally known interventional endoscopist and part of the great team they have there at Mayo, and has also been a very active participant in ARIA courses and ASGE leadership. And then Dr. Sophia Solaria will be joining us virtually. She's a pathologist at Vanderbilt University, and give us a pathologist perspective of EOE. So what is ARIA? Why do we have put on ARIA programs? And it stands for ASGE Recognized Industry Associate. All of you that successfully complete this program will be given a ASGE ARIA seal that you'll be able to use in your professional interactions with your colleagues in health care that you call upon or interact with or partner with. And ASGE's had a long history of partnering with industry to really further the field, bringing research and bringing new products to market, and most importantly, to educate our gastroenterologists and their teams on new and existing treatments, devices, and other advances in the field of gastroenterology. The mission really is to use our strengths as an organization to educate you and anybody that comes through ASGE ARIA programs on the field of gastroenterology. And that does two things. One is it advances your professional growth, but it also helps our patients, and it helps our members when folks like you have the background and the knowledge to really optimize those interactions with our members and their partners and their associates in the health care environment. And ultimately, our goal is to improve patient care. So today's objectives, this course, I'm just going to break it up into two parts. It's really a hybrid course. The first day today, we'll be spending reviewing general gastroenterology overview. And many of you may say, well, what's the connection? Why do I need to know that? Why can't we just focus on EOE? And it's important for two reasons. One is some of the diseases that we actually see that are not EOE have a relationship or a connection to EOE. And we'll try to highlight those as we go through them. And secondly, as you interact with gastroenterologists, APPs, or other health care providers that are part of that team, your ability to understand their life and what their practice is like and the other diseases that they encounter is really very helpful for you. And that helps to improve the communication and the exchange of information. So today, we'll be focused on that general overview. We'll have a series of didactic sessions. And then you'll have a lot of fun this afternoon when we all get to go into the bioskills lab. And you'll get, if you want, we don't force you to do this, but if you want, you can get your hands on the endoscope, learn how to do biopsies, which is obviously an important part of managing EOE. Get a chance to do dilation therapy, which is an important part of managing EOE. And really get to see what endoscopy is like with your own hands. It's not a competition. It's really just an idea of giving you exposure. And I understand there's some of you that actually used to scope for a living. So you may be able to actually train some of your colleagues yourselves as we get into that lab. Everything's a competition. So tomorrow, we'll have some, a little bit of a gamification at the end of today, by the way. We'll have a knowledge challenge that you'll be given a link to an app where you'll be able to answer questions based on the content that you learned today. And we will recognize the top performers. It's synonymous. Nobody will know if you did poorly, but if you excel and you're at the top, that's one competition where we'll recognize you. Tomorrow, we will reconvene, and the program will be much more focused on EOE. We'll have some didactic sessions in the morning, as well as some further panel discussions on what it's like to be in the practice of EOE and managing patients. Then after lunch, we'll have several rotating sessions, including some interactive case discussions on both adults and pediatric patients. And then you'll get to hear from a patient who will be joining us virtually about his experience with EOE. And we'll give you a very inside, intimate look into what it's like to live with EOE. And then we'll do another knowledge challenge at the end of tomorrow, similar to what we do today, to really have a lot of fun in terms of our knowledge that we gain. So I've kind of walked through with you what's-you all have the agenda in front of you, but these are sort of the granular details of the agenda. For those of you that want to join Wi-Fi, you also have this in your packet. There's also a bio of all of our faculty, should you want to refer to the faculty. If you would, we are trying to record all of our ARIA sessions. So if you have a question-and this is meant to be interactive. Most of the didactics, we will have an opportunity at the end to answer questions. So if you do, please make sure you press and activate the microphone so that we can record that and also hear-everybody can hear your question a little bit more clearly. When we do move to the Bioskills Lab, we will be doing that right after lunch. You can see you will enter through the men's or women's locker rooms or washrooms to the lockers and then into the Bioskills Lab, and that's directly on the opposite side of the hallway from where we are right here. There's no drink allowed in the lab, and there will be some personal protective equipment that we'll be giving you to help protect you. All of the presentations are going to be available on the main learning platform for ASGE called GI Leap, and if you have any trouble getting into that, you can contact Michelle. And please make us-and help us make the ARIA program better by completing your evaluations. All of you will have to complete a post-test. Many of you did the pre-test. And you'll have to do the post-test in order to receive the ARIA seal, that three-year ARIA seal we talked about, and that'll be due by June 30th, and you must have a passing score of 80 percent. Okay, so with that, let's get started.

Dr. Bill Tierney

ASG IT&T Center

eosinophilic esophagitis

Sanofi

Regeneron