Welcome to the ASGE livestream event, GI Unit Leadership, Optimizing Endoscopic Operations Through Leadership. In addition to engaging in the live event today, each of you will have ongoing access to the recordings from the course via GI Leap, ASG's online learning management system. You already have a GI Leap account, or education bank as I like to call it. It's where you logged in for the meeting e-syllabus. In the near future, the recordings from the course will populate that account, and we will let you know when they're available. This course has been approved for six AMA PRA Category 1 credits. To receive your CME certificate, you must complete the course evaluation. The evaluation form will be available in GI Leap one hour before the close of the course. After completing the evaluation, you will be able to immediately download the CME certificate or certificate of participation if you are not a physician. Your feedback is extremely helpful in shaping the future of ASG courses, and we appreciate your comments. Faculty disclosures can be found in your program materials, and all potential conflicts of interest were resolved. Now it is my pleasure to introduce our course directors. Dr. Gerard Eisenberg is the Chief Medical Officer at University Hospitals Digestive Health Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Associate Chief and Director of Clinical Operations of the University's Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease. He currently serves as the GSAP Editor-in-Chief and on the ASG Quality Assurance and Endoscopy Committee. Dr. Neil Koshal currently serves as Executive Director of General GI and Endoscopy at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. His career focus is health system leadership and GI. Dr. Koshal currently serves on the ASG Practice Operations Committee and as the Vice Chair of the ASGE Ambulatory Endoscopy Center Special Interest Group. Dr. Allison Shulman is Associate Professor and duly appointed in the Division of Gastroenterology and the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan, where she is currently Chief of Endoscopy and Director of Bariatric Endoscopy. Dr. Shulman is an alumnus of the ASG Leadership Education and Development Program, serves as the Bariatric Endoscopy Section Editor for GSAP, and is the current Chair of the Association for Bariatric Endoscopy. I will now turn the proverbial floor over to Dr. Eisenberg. Well, thank you for joining us today for this exciting program, now in its ninth edition. Thank you, Allie and Neil, for your partnership in developing our wonderful agenda, and to our outstanding all-star faculty, including Allie, Neil, Renee, Vasu, Raj, Gretchen, and Praveena, for providing their expertise and wisdom today. Before we begin, I want to give a shout out to Eden Essex, the Master of Ceremonies, and the dynamic engine who made all of this possible. She pushed each of us to reach for the skies and develop this course. And to our behind-the-scene tech extraordinaries, Eric and Sam. In today's multifaceted and demanding healthcare environment, a vibrant, engaged GI healthcare team that delivers higher quality, safer, and more efficient care with measurable and improved clinical outcomes will thrive and financially survive. We will be looking through the lens of leading effectively through accountability and development, which are the section titles for this course. Some of you realize that this course is a bit different than those given in the past. The roadmap has changed. Interspersed through our program, we'll be asking audience participation questions during most of the talks, and after each session of lectures, we invite all of you to participate in case-based discussions that highlight some of the teaching points given during the lectures as we have found that everyone learns from each other, including yours truly and the other faculty members. You will find that each lecture could easily be a course in of itself, and I'm sure you'll be clamoring for some more. So I'm looking forward to a great day, and I also look forward to hearing your thoughts, comments, and suggestions throughout the day. Neil and Allie, I pass the webcam on to you for any comments you have before we begin. Thank you so much, Gerard. Those are great remarks and terrific timing for this course with National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month just a week away. While colorectal cancer awareness is our 365-day concern, March is a really special month when we do things like dress in blue and rally at the national, state, and local levels to raise awareness about colorectal cancer, and that's a very special cause to all of us here at the ASGE. And I think that's great timing for this course because the themes that we'll be highlighting in our course today really focus on access to care, quality and endoscopy, and efficiency in the endoscopy unit so we can provide the best quality GI care to as many patients as possible. We're going to have a lot of vital discussions today amongst our care teams on themes like quality, safety, efficiency, and running a highly functioning GI unit and being part of all-star teams. I was reviewing the registration list before we opened the course, and I was really excited to see the mix of physicians, nurses, and other team members participating. So I think we're going to have great discussions today, and I'm really looking forward to being a part of it. And now I'll turn it over back to Gerard and Ali.

GI unit leadership

endoscopic operations

healthcare development

Colorectal Cancer Awareness

interactive participation