Let's get started. It's going to be a long day, but it's going to be a fun day. Thanks for taking time out from your training to come. This is the first year that we have our Advanced Endoscopy Fellows course here at ASGE. We think this is where it belongs, and this is where it will be housed from here on, as ASGE takes on a new Advanced Endoscopy Fellow Committee and puts more emphasis on training Advanced Endoscopy Fellows. The goals today, by the way, I'm atop chalk, picture's up there. The goals today are threefold. One, and the biggest goal is for you guys to learn to know each other and learn to interact You are the future of ASGE and the society that takes gastrointestinal endoscopy forward. Second goal is we've evolved this course to learn how to do video editing and also think of interventional endoscopy in the same breath. Video editing evolved about 20, 25 years ago, and it was just natural for endoscopy. The two go together, and we want you to be good at it and take that field forward. Then the third thing is to think about endoscopy, how you break out of what you're doing, not just the standard techniques, but how you come up with new techniques. In the hands-on courses and in the cases, we're going to try to get you out of your comfort zone and think more than just doing something. With me is my course co-director, Praveen Chahal, and I'll ask Praveen to come up to the podium. We do need to thank all the sponsors who make this course possible, and Praveen, come on up. Thank you so much. Thank you, M-Dub. Good morning, everyone. Thank you to the faculty who made this trip. Just as Dr. Chalk said, this is for you. All these faculty, they are here for you. They are highly experienced, enthusiastic, passionate about teaching, so please ask a lot of questions. This is your time. This has been... I don't know if you wanted to share history about the course. This has been Dr. Chalk's baby. Maybe I'll let him discuss that first a little bit. Well, historically, I was trying to avoid time. This started when I was young and part of ASGE. John Vargo, Jeff Marks, and I were going to some committee meeting, and we said, wouldn't it be nice to do a first-year fellows course for interventional endoscopy fellows? We had an endoscopy lab in Cleveland and a lot of strength at the institutions in Cleveland, so we brought all the advanced endoscopists together, and we just started a course that was modeled after the first-year fellows course. It worked well, but as it was going on, ASGE used to do a course for video editing, and that course had sponsorship, and that sponsorship died. We thought it was very valuable to teach people how to do video editing. Our plenary fora, our World Cup, all of them, video was developing, and you'll have gotten some training from Dr. Raju, who is a friend, I shouldn't use the term old anymore, but is a long-time friend, and also has Cleveland connections. So Raju helped start video editing at ASGE and was the editor for VGIE for many years and really helped establish the video forum. Video has been so powerful that we said, why don't we incorporate video and bring it into our advanced fellows course? That's how the first advanced fellows course started, how we combined video editing. We didn't know that it would work, but it did. Our format changed over the years, and you'll see the format. We try to make this very case-based to get you to think about endoscopy, and also to think about how you make videos, how you learn videos, and you're all expected to submit a video to DDW. That's the price for coming to this course, and we expect to see some of you guys up on the podium getting awards and taking things forward. Thank you so much. So I think none of this would have been possible without the generous support from our industry partners listed here, Boston Scientific, Cook, Kirby, U.S., Kirby, Fuji, Medtronic, Columbus, Pentax, and Starus, and we do have a lot of exhibits, so whenever you guys have time in between the breaks, please try to visit those. So just a little bit about the hands-on. As I mentioned, we have highly passionate, excellent, experienced faculty. We try to intentionally keep this a smaller faculty-to-trainee ratio, so each of you will have plenty of one-on-one time with the faculty. So when the case-based session is done, the didactics are done, the bioscale labs is through the main restrooms. It sounds odd, but yes, you have to go through the restrooms to get to the lab, and there are lockers there. Gowns will be available. We have really experienced people in the lab who can help you with any questions. No food or drinks allowed. Please ask questions. This is for you. No question is simple or meaningless, and in the end, we would like to have your feedback. As Dr. Chalk mentioned, this is the first time this is brought back to the ASGE from Cleveland. So we would love to hear what are the things that we did right, what are the things that we can improve upon. Your feedback is valuable. So with that, we'll start.

Advanced Endoscopy Fellows course

ASGE

video editing

interventional endoscopy

new techniques in endoscopy