This course is supported, in part, by educational grants from CDx Diagnostics, Inc., Cook Medical, EndoGastric Solutions, Inc., ERBE USA, Inc., Lucid Diagnostics, Medtronic, Olympus Corporation of the Americas, PENTAX Medical, and Phathom Pharmaceuticals. 

 Supporters:

1. CDx Diagnostics, Inc.
2. Cook Medical
3. ERBE USA, Inc
4. Lucid Diagnostics
5. Medtronic
6. Olympus Corporation of the Americas
7. PENTAX Medical
8. Phathom Pharmaceuticals

Exhibitors:

1. Boston Scientific Corporation
2. Medtronic
3. Braintree, A Part of Sebela Pharmaceuticals

Advertisers:

1. Medtronic

Sponsors:

1. EndoGastric Solutions, Inc.

ASGE is proud to present “Endoscopy Live”, a virtual endoLIVE signature series, featuring LIVE endoscopy broadcasts from the world’s leading endoscopy centers and clinicians. ASGE members who are GI Fellows and practicing clinicians can register for this complimentary member benefit program!

This accredited CME and MOC educational program is organized by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). This educational initiative is based upon the identified need to provide our 14,000 members with practical information on those patients who present symptoms that require a diagnostic workup or require ongoing management for GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus often encountered in many gastroenterology practices. This education will be based on the principles from the cognitive, behavioral, and decision sciences, such that education can be designed to accelerate understanding of new concepts, facilitate the acquisition of new behaviors, and most importantly, increase retention, recall, and appropriate utilization of new information at the point-of-care.

The session integrated didactic overviews, case-based question presentations, and video cases followed by panel moderation of key leading expert insights in various GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus clinical areas. Also included, is an overview of current and ongoing research presentation highlighted from DDW 2021.

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

• Define prevalence of GERD and how it results from anatomic failure of the lower esophageal sphincter
• Explain how lifestyle, medications and surgery all play a role in the therapy of patients with increasingly severe GERD
• List the importance of the four key tests to workup GERD:  EGD, pH, Manometry and UGI
• Compare and Contrast various endoscopic diagnostics and treatments of Barrett’s Esophagus are conducted and the rationale for each
• Discuss selected GERD and BE research abstracts presented from DDW 2021 and published in GIE (May 2021)

COURSE DIRECTORS

CHAIR

Mouen A. Khashab, MD, MASGE
Associate Professor, Medicine and Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy
Master Endoscopist Award Recipient, 2021
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA


Prateek Sharma, MD, FASGE
Professor of Medicine and VA Medical Center
Program Fellowship Director, Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University of Kansas
Kansas City, KS

FACULTY

John O. Clarke, MD, FASGE
Clinical Associate Professor
Stanford Medicine - Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Redwood City, CA.

Marcia Irene Canto, MD, MHS, FASGE
Professor of Medicine and Oncology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD, USA

Amit P. Maydeo, MD, FASGE
Director and Chief of Gastroenterology & Therapeutic Endoscopy
Institute of Advanced Endoscopy
Mumbai, India

D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, MASGE
Chief of Gastroenterology & Therapeutic Endoscopy
Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
Hyderabad, India

Kenneth J. Chang, MD, FASGE
University of California Irvine Medical Center
Orange, CA, USA

Rehan Haidry, MSc (Hons), MRCP
UCLH, London
United Kingdom, London

Horst Neuhaus, MD
Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine
Evangelisches Krankenhaus Duesseldorf, Medical Dept.
Dusseldorf, Germany

Amitabh Chak, MD, MASGE
Director of Clinical Research
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, OH, USA

Pradeep Bhandari, MD
Professor of Gastroenterology
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth University Hospital NHS Trust
Portsmouth, England

Sri Komanduri, MD, MS, FASGE
Medical Director, GI Lab, Director of Interventional Endoscopy
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
Chicago, IL, USA

Uzma D. Siddiqui, MD, FASGE
Associate Professor of Medicine
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Reem Z. Sharaiha, MD, MSc
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA

Rena H. Yadlapati, MD, MSHS
Associate Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego Division of Gastroenterology
La Jolla, CA, USA

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