Good morning, everyone. My name is Joanna Law, and on behalf of my co-chair, Amandeep Shergal, we'd like to welcome you to the very first Women Teaching Women, Retooling Your Toolbox course. We'd like to thank everyone for coming today, and this is a course designed by women for women and is a brand new course that's meant to enable female gastroenterologists to become more knowledgeable, skilled, and successful clinicians with hands-on training led by experts in the female GI, by female gastroenterologists in the field. Today couldn't happen without our amazing faculty who we've listed here and some of their accomplishments, but you guys will all have interactions with our faculty, and I'm very excited that everyone was able to join us. We'd also like to thank our sponsors, these grant sponsorships. This course could not have happened without them. In addition to our in-kind support and also our very generous donors, furthermore, I'd like to thank our corporate partners here at ASGE. The program format today will include presentations followed by hands-on sessions. Your engagement is critical in today's programming. The programming in the auditorium will be recorded, so please use any of the microphones to ask questions. Where are the microphones, Jo? Okay. Perfect. All presentation materials are available in GILeap, ASGE's online learning platform. Photography and recordings of the course are prohibited. So let's get started. We wanted to start just by getting your guys' input. I am attending the course today because I want to. So there's a QR code up there, or you can text 22333. We want to create a word cloud, sort of what brought you guys to the course today. What are you hoping to get out of it? Great, so learn new tools, ergonomics. Women, that's a big part of today for sure. Practice, polypectomy, meet, tools and techniques. Definitely one of the goals of today is really to give everybody sort of the name of the course, Retooling Your Clinical Toolbox. And what we're hoping with is that you guys leave with both increased confidence and knowledge and a physical toolbox that you guys will get at the end of the course to take home with a reminder of all that you've learned today. So at the end of this course, we're hoping that all of you will be able to apply updated guidelines and literature to your clinical endoscopic practice, demonstrate knowledge of appropriate tools and techniques for treatment of esophageal conditions, colonic polypectomy, hemostasis, and defect closure, as well as identify risk factors associated with work-related repetitive strain injury that are present when we're performing endoscopy, and importantly, leave here being able to implement a pre-procedure ergonomic timeout. We also wanted to get your guys' thoughts on why we might design a course. Why women teaching women? Why might that be helpful or beneficial or a draw to you all? Yeah, so unique experiences, better understanding, networking, women in minority, yeah. A key sort of idea here is that related to ergonomics, these tools were not necessarily designed with us as women gastroenterologists in mind. And because of that, oftentimes we're kind of, when the reps first bring the tool in or we first put the tool in our hand, it feels a little bit foreign. It doesn't feel very natural. But we have an amazing crew of faculty here that have mastered these tools and really figured out how to implement them. And because they have your same hand size and they look more like you, they can give you some of these tools and tips about how you can incorporate that into your practice. So we, you know, there's now multiple studies within GI and the more broader surgery literature as well. This was a specific study looking at GI fellows, female fellows reported on average smaller hand sizes, shorter height, more female fellows reported endoscopic equipment that was not ergonomically optimized for their use. They voiced a preference for same-gender teachers, access to dial extenders, which unfortunately, at least from Olympus, are no longer on the market, and well-fitted lead aprons. And there was a high rate of endoscopy-related injury and pain reported by both sexes with significantly more females experiencing neck and shoulder pain. And so we'd like to sort of try and address these issues throughout today. So just to get a baseline of sort of our understanding and try and demonstrate what we've learned, we just have a series of questions before we get into the lectures. So the first question is, which category of interventions has been shown to increase adenoma detection rate the most? And this is going to be related to the guidelines lecture that you guys are going to be getting shortly as well as the polypectomy hands-on. So systematic interventions including bowel prep and intra-procedure observers, A. B, techniques including retroflexion and secum and second look, C, education and feedback, including focused educational interventions and public reporting of ADR, or D, technology including distal attachment devices and NBI. We're not going to tell you the answer yet. So hopefully this is something that you're going to learn throughout the day. All right. The next question, monotherapy with thermal or mechanical management is an option for first-line therapy in a patient presenting with high risk for bleeding stigmata, true or false? Monotherapy with thermal or mechanical management is an option for first-line therapy for high risk re-bleeding stigmata. Excellent. What information does FLIP provide? A, esophageal distensibility and contractile pattern, B, histological scoring system for EOE, C, PROG classification for Barrett's esophagus, or D, identical information to esophageal manometry. Okay. And the last question, select all the pictures showing people in non-neutral postures. So just click on the pictures that show the non-neutral postures. Excellent. Okay. So those are our pre-course questions. Thank you. We're going to get started with our first speaker.

Women Teaching Women course

ergonomically optimized tools

networking

repetitive strain injury

baseline understanding