American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
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Our mission is to empower clinicians and researchers to improve digestive health. Also follow @AGA_Gastro @AGA_CGH @AGA_CMGH @AGA_TIGE @AGA_GHAdvances @AGA_GIHN
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📢 New guideline: Learn how to prevent and manage hepatitis B reactivation in patients on immunosuppressive drugs. Read more here: . #HepatitisB #GITwitter. @traceyg_md @Julius__Wilder @ruben_hernaez @DrHuangDQ @AliFai5al
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New AGA clinical guidelines: we do not recommend the use of #probiotics for most digestive conditions. Correct the unbiased info out there & please retweet.
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📢 New AGA guidelines on biomarkers for ulcerative colitis (UC). 🔥A Tweetorial for #GITwitter by @AmerGastroAssn and @AGA_Gastro. #IBD. @AshwinMDIBD @IBDBen @Realcecum @SultanShazi @ShaziaMSiddique @JeremyAdlerMD. Follow this🧵
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Help us spread the word - new federal guidance out of @USDOL today that plans must cover follow up colonoscopy after a positive stool test.
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Please help us welcome Dr. Maria Abreu (@ibddocmaria) as AGA’s 119th president! 🎉 She is AGA's 5th woman president & the Director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center, and Professor of Medicine & Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at @umiamimedicine.
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👏🎉Introducing our 2021 Recognition Prize recipients! We are thrilled to honor these exceptional individuals for their outstanding service to the gastroenterology community.
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We told @UHC how its GI endoscopy #priorauth program is harmful to those with #CRC symptoms. They didn't listen. Now they aren’t providing details about how it will be implemented & are leaving providers to pick up the pieces. This will hurt patients!
⚠️THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE—Disgusting that @UnitedHealthGrp will now block many colonoscopies using “prior authorization”—doctors are shocked and outraged. Thus, any patient seeking surveillance and diagnostic colonoscopies to detect cancer will first need approval that could delay
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🎉Congrats to our 2021-23 Forward Program Scholars! These early career physician-scientists will participate in a training and mentorship program designed to provide concrete and applicable skills. #EquityinGI @MuyiwaAwoniyi1 @ManuelBragaMD @JBenhammouMD
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New in @AGA_Gastro AGA has released 🔟 best practices on how to manage refractory celiac disease.
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🚨 Join the #medicalemoji movement‼️ . Check out the digestive system candidates & help us advocate for the #liver #stomach & #intestine #emoji:. 1️⃣ Like & share this post!.2️⃣ Comment w/ feedback & suggestions for improvement!. @ShuhanHeMD @AustinChiangMD @AASLDtweets @InadomiJ
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New AGA Clinical Practice Update in @AGA_Gastro on the epidemiology, evaluation and management of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency #EPI from @DavidCWhitcomb and Drs. Anna Buchner and Chris Forsmark.
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New AGA guideline: GI evaluation of iron deficiency anemia (IDA). We recommend bidirectional endoscopy for most patients with IDA. Published in @AGA_Gastro by @ShaziaMSiddique @AmitPatelDukeMD @SultanShazi @yfalckytter and colleagues. Summary:
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🌟 Our first-ever living guideline for managing moderate-to-severe #UlcerativeColitis led by @berkeleydoc, @manasiagrawalmd, @Jhaydek, @ashwinmdibd, @FrankIScottMD, @EdwardLoftus2 prioritizes early use of advanced therapies over a step-up approach.
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Introducing your 2022 AGA Recognition Prize recipients! Please join us in congratulating our honorees 👏👏👏 @drfolamay @ibddoctor @ShailjaShahMD @ColumbiaYan @rosadelauro @RepRaulRuizMD .
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Drumroll please 🥁 introducing our new class of AGA Future Leaders! This is the future of our field! We look forward to working with each of you over the next 18 months to cultivate your leadership skills
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Racism, social injustice and our pledge to lead change: Read the joint GI society statement from AGA, @AASLDtweets, @AmCollegeGastro and @ASGEendoscopy. #blackoutday #blackouttuesday
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The #FutureofGI is BRIGHT! ✨✨. AGA is here for you and we can’t wait to be part of your career journey! #DDW2023
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Happy new year! We wish everyone good digestive health in 2018. And a big thank you to all the gastroenterologists who work tirelessly to improve GI.
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We’re honored to announce that John M. Carethers, MD, AGAF, affectionately nicknamed ‘The Rock,’ officially begins his term as the 117th AGA president today. #GITwitter #Gastroenterology
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📣 We are thrilled to welcome our new social media editors! #GITwitter.@JosephHabibi_MD - @AGA_CGH .@LiverNotFighter - @AGA_CMGH .@TrieuMD - @AGA_TIGE .@DoctorShida - @AGA_GHA .
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New AGA Clinical Practice Update in @AGA_Gastro on noninvasive biomarkers for NAFLD/MASLD from Dr. Julia Wattacheril, @Mayo_liverdoc, Dr. Joseph Lim and @ArunJSanyalVCU #GITwitter
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Congratulations to former AGA president Dr. @barbarahjung for being named the first woman dean of @UCSanDiego School of Medicine! 🎉 The #AGAGastroSquad is thankful for your contributions on behalf of all #WomenInGI!
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Are you a super 🌟 who matched with a #GIfellowship today? Welcome to #GITwitter! We know there’s a lot to process now and we’re here to help! . Here are 3️⃣ resources to help you get started on your journey to becoming a gastroenterologist. #Match2023 #GIMatch #WelcometoGI
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📣 New clinical guideline in @AGA_Gastro on biomarkers 🩸 💩 for Crohn’s disease . @AshwinMDIBD @JeremyAdlerMD @ShaziaMSiddique @SultanShazi @Realcecum @IBDBen #GITwitter.
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🎉Join us in congratulating our 11 AGA Research Mentor Award Recipients!@mcruzcorrea @UmaMahadevanIBD @BethAMcCormick @molivahemker
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#DDW2023 registration is open, and to celebrate we're giving away 2 free AGA Postgraduate Course #AGAPG registrations to #GITwitter! To enter, comment here and tag a friend (real or #goals) who you'd ❤️to sit next to at the course. Enter by 2/10. Winner will be announced Friday🤞
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.@RainbowinGastro:.🏳️🌈We recognize your call to action & are discussing next steps.🏳️⚧️We support transgender & gender non-conforming members & patients.🏳️🌈We want you to feel safe @ meetings + welcome in GI & liver communities.#DiversityinGI #EquityinGI #GITwitter #LiverTwitter
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New AGA Clinical Practice Update in @AGA_Gastro on belching, bloating and distention from @BMoshiree @DDrossman @AasmaShaukatMD offering comprehensive advice on treating these #DGBIs. .#GITwitter.
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❗ Just published in @AGA_Gastro: AGA Rapid Recommendations for Gastrointestinal Procedures During the #COVID19 Pandemic. Provides detailed guidance on #PPE & triaging procedures.
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Congratulations to AGA President @ibddocmaria on being named executive director of the F. Widjaja #IBD Institute at @CedarsSinai! 🎉 . We can't wait to see what you accomplish in this new chapter!
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🆕guideline alert: AGA and @AmCollegeGastro just published the first guideline recommending Magnesium Oxide and Senna as evidence-based treatments for chronic idiopathic constipation. #GITwitter
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August is #GastroparesisAwarenessMonth, and this month, we recognize all patients diagnosed with #gastroparesis and their caretakers. To learn more or access resources about gastroparesis to help patients, visit the AGA #GI Patient Center.
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New research hot off the press in @AGA_Gastro describes GI symptoms and potential fecal transmission in #coronavirus patients.
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We're making history! For the 1st time, all 4 GI societies have women presidents! Read about this landmark event
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There's no better way for a GI extraordinaire like @ibddocmaria to celebrate her birthday than with an impressive cake like this! Help us wish our Madam President @ibddocmaria a very happy birthday today! 🍰🥳
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We're meeting with UnitedHealthcare tomorrow to address this – physicians and patients DON'T❌ need more red tape. Stay tuned for more!.
This is how UnitedHealthcare is celebrating Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month… 🥴
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#GITwitter, help us welcome the newest AGA Institute Council members! 🥳 @DougRobertsonMD, Braden Kuo, @arianne_theiss, Sandeep K. Gupta, @SoniaKupfer, @raman_muthusamy and C. Prakash Gyawali will help lead AGA's programming at next year’s @DDWMeeting
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We’re working to make #IBDvisible on #WorldIBDDay, and every day. Today we recognize #IBDwarriors across the 🌎, and the doctors and researchers working to treat and care for the #IBD community. Visit the AGA #GI Patient Center for more:
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We are mourning the loss of brilliant physician & clinical researcher Dr. Ikuo Hirano, who passed away Monday. He helped define the EoE field and led AGA education, our EGD section and CGH over the years—condolences to all who had the privilege of knowing him. @NMgastro
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.@AmerGastroAssn @AASLDtweets @AmCollegeGastro @ASGEendoscopy: Strongly consider rescheduling elective non-urgent endoscopic procedures. Consider offering elective office visits remotely, via telemedicine if possible #COVID #coronavirus.
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🆕 AGA guidelines released today in @AGA_Gastro strongly recommend patients with obesity use new prescription medications (paired with lifestyle changes). #Obesity #WeightLoss #GITwitter
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We stand by our current recommendations to start #colorectalcancer screening at age 45. It saves lives. More details ➡️
#BreakingNews: #FightCRC, @BlueHats4colons, @ColonCancerCoal, .@blackingastro, @AmCollegeGastro, @AmerGastroAssn, and @ASGEendoscopy are standing united in support of #USPSTF's recommendations for #ColorectalCancer screening starting at age 45 for average-risk individuals,
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It’s that time of year! 📣Introducing our 2024 Recognition Prize recipients! Please join us in congratulating our honorees! 🌟 . @sophiebalzoramd @JPandolfinoMD @MingyangSong3 @khamiltonphd .
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#AGAGastroSquad, are you sad #DDW2023 is over?. Mark your calendars 📆 now for #DDW2024 — May 18-21, 2024 — in Washington, D.C. Will we see you there? Drop a ❤️ or 💬 to let us know.
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🎉Please join us in welcoming our 118th AGA President, Dr. @barbarahjung! She currently serves as the first woman Robert G. Petersdorf professor and chair of internal medicine at the @UW and is our 4th woman president to lead AGA.
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#MatchDay is in the books! ✔️ Congratulations to all the residents who matched to GI – we’re excited to welcome you to our field! #GIMatch #Match2023 #FutureofGI #GIfellowship. Reply or retweet to share your good news and let’s celebrate with #GITwitter! 🎉
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📣 Hot off the press, we have a new clinical guideline in @AGA_Gastro on fecal microbiota-based therapies for GI diseases💩 . Anne Peery, Colleen Kelly, Dina Kao, Byron Vaughn, @BenjaminLebwohl, Siddharth Singh, Aamer Imdad and Osama Altayar . Read more:
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🎉The AGA Research Foundation is thrilled to announce our newest class of awardees! We are providing $2.56 million in research funding to 61 recipients. So many impactful research projects planned. Tag & congratulate any familiar faces!
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Go @drfolamay! Dr. May speaks about the value of research during a panel examining how to address disparities in CRC at the @WhiteHouse's #CancerMoonshoot Colorectal Cancer Forum.
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THIS THURSDAY: @DMGrayMD & @IssakaMD discuss what GIs need to know about #COVID19 impacts on health disparities, screening, and liver diseases ➕ solutions for #EquityinGI. #AGAForward scholar @drfolamay to moderate. #COVIDGI #LiverTwitter RT & Register:
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New guideline alert! Now in @AGA_Gastro: @AmerGastroAssn Guideline on Initial Management of Acute Pancreatitis
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📣 Published today in @AGA_Gastro, the first clinical guideline on the management of pouchitis from @EdBarnesMD @ManasiAgrawalMD @GauravsyalMD @AshwinMDIBD @JHaydek @LauraRaffalsMD and colleagues! .
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Our incoming presidents have a special announcement … @ibddocmaria & Dr. Prateek Sharma hope to see you May 3, 2025, in San Diego for the first-ever @AmerGastroAssn @ASGEendoscopy combined Postgraduate Course. Like ❤️ this post if you’ll be there. #DDW2024 #DDW2025
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✍ Apply to programs.💬 Interview.🎉 #Match2024!. Where do you go from here now that you’ve matched? We’re here to support the #FutureOfGI! Here are 3️⃣ resources to help you get started. Bookmark this 🧵 for easy reference.
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Congrats to all the #IMresidents & #peds residents who matched with a #GIFellowship program today for #Match2021 🎉 You did it! . Comment below or retweet this to share the good news! #GITwitter wants to give you a warm welcome to the #fieldofGI.
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We love seeing so many #WomenInGI in @EmoryGastroHep's incoming class of GI fellows! 😍 The #FutureOfGI is bright.
🚨We’re so excited to announce our incoming GI fellows! Congratulations to all! Welcome to the #poopsquad! 💩
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Now that's an impressive class of incoming fellows! 🤩 The #AGAGastroSquad is sending a warm welcome to @UTSWGI's newest GI fellows! 🎉.
So excited for this new group of 🌟fellows🌟to be joining our family here at @UTSWGI 😍 welcome to the team!
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🆕#IBD guideline alert: recommendations on drug therapy for the management of moderate-to-severe luminal and fistulizing #Crohns disease, published in @AGA_Gastro
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So you matched to GI…congratulations on being part of the #FutureOfGI! Now what’s next? 🤔 . We have 3️⃣ resources to help you on the road 🛣️ to becoming a gastroenterologist. Bookmark this or share with someone who’s starting their journey in GI! ⤵️
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On Friday, we – along with @AmCollegeGastro & @ASGEendoscopy — met with @UHC. UHC verbally offered to trade the June 1 policy with a poorly defined, complicated administrative process. We will not compromise on patient health. . #StopUHCGIPriorAuth
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We’re excited to have a great new group of AGA editorial fellows on board to learn first-hand about #scientificpublishing!. This year’s fellows will work closely with staff & editors at AGA’s journals, learning the ins and outs of the editorial process.
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NEW GUIDELINE ALERT: AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on Management of Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia just posted as @AGA_Gastro Article in Press (login req'd) - will be public next week. First look: @samirguptaGI @SeragHashem @SultanShazi0314
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Happy Black History Month #GITwitter! To be young, gifted and Black: Meet these three young GIs making an impact in the GI Community. #GITwitter #EquityinGI #BlackHistoryMonth23 @cfritzMD @jlouissaint89
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So many powerhouses in GI, including @ibddocmaria, @NeenaSAbrahamMD, @MichelleKimMD, @RotonyaC and many others, leading important conversations at today’s gender equity symposium. #DDW2024
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What a great start to #AGATech with future leaders of our field! We kicked off our annual Tech Summit with the outstanding fellows selected for this year’s Innovation Fellows Program. Thanks to @Medtronic for sponsoring this program & today’s tour
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Ostomies are not as rare as they seem – 750,000 Americans live with an #ostomy, yet there is still so much stigma. Use these resources to manage treatment & education. 💠 CPU on the management of ostomies: 💠 All about ostomy:
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House just passed bill that fixes Medicare screening #colonoscopy loophole that leaves beneficiaries responsible for coinsurance when a screening colonoscopy turns therapeutic. Thank you members for voicing our concerns to Congress! Keep the momentum going
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We love our trainees, early career GIs and faculty! 😍 Thanks for participating in today’s networking event and making it a success. (See yourself? Share and tag your #AGAGastroSquad.). AGA is here to support you all throughout your career!
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The US Multisociety Task Force on #CRC has issued 2 new colorectal cancer screening recommendation documents. Focus on screening intervals and best practices for polypectomy. #coloncancer #2020MSTFpolypectomyrecs @AmCollegeGastro @ASGEendoscopy
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Big news: #USPSTF just published guidelines w/ #coloncancer screening starting at age 45. AGA & GI societies fully support this decision. Incoming pres @InadomiJ: “we expect this important change to save lives and improve the health of the US population.”
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🎉Congratulations to our 2021 AGA Research Foundation awards class! This year we are granting over $2.5 million in funding to gifted researchers working on promising GI research projects. @wenjie_ma2 @VictoriaWeis24 @Nilay_Sethi @IkomaMD @P_DeepakIBDMD .
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Please RT! Today we asked @senatemajldr & @SpeakerPelosi to protect providers during the #coronavirus pandemic. Contact your lawmakers: @AASLDtweets @AmCollegeGastro @ASGEendoscopy @SeragHashem @AASLDPresident @JohnVargoMD @MarkPochapin #specialtydocs
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Congratulations on a successful #MatchDay2020 and welcome to the newest cohort of #GIfellows! We can’t wait to see what’s in store for you in this exciting field. Shout out to the #FutureofGI here on #GITwitter:.1/3
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Great to meet some of our Clinical Trialist Boot Camp participants. Thanks cohort 1️⃣, and welcome cohort 2️⃣! #CCCongress23
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Happy #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth, #AGAGastroSquad! 💙. We’re committed to encouraging CRC screening and protecting access to CRC care during March and year-round. Let’s work together to achieve a world free of colorectal cancer. 💪🏽 #45isthenew50 #GetScreened
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📣We are thrilled to announce our 2023-2025 class of FORWARD Scholars! Read more about the AGA FORWARD Program and meet the 14 scholars:
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Congratulations to our 2023 #AGAResearchFoundation awards class! This year we are granting over $2.6 million in funding to 71 gifted researchers working on impactful GI research projects. @schwoerersimon @DoctorSharad @EnriqueSoto8 @laura_targownik
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Just released: Two 🆕 treatment guidelines were released today in @AGA_Gastro outlining personalized approaches for treating patients with #IBS-C and IBS-D.
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New governing board member: Vice President, Barbara Jung, MD, AGAF. Dr. Jung is an esteemed leader at @UWDeptMedicine - she'll become AGA president in 2023. @barbarahjung
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Congratulations, @SophieBalzoraMD! 🎉 #AGAGastroSquad, help us congratulate her on this well-earned achievement!.
It’s about that time to officially celebrate the addition of yours truly to the 0.8% of #Blackwomeninmedicine full professorship, y’all. -@nyugrossman . #diversityingi.#blackwomeninmedicine
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🎉Congratulations to these 16 fellows showcasing their commitment to the GI field through their quality improvement projects! @AhmadAlkaddour4 @carycottongi @DasharathySonya @DoctorShida @RobeybMD
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Can't believe it's over 😭 Thank you to every single person who stepped foot in San Diego for #DDW19. You are what make Digestive Disease Week so unforgettable. @DDWMeeting @AASLDtweets @SSATNews @ASGEendoscopy
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One highlight of our day so far: Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall reminds us that rejection happens! Don't get discouraged & keep pressing on. #DDW2021
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🎉Congrats to our 116th AGA President @InadomiJ who will officially take the reins at tonight’s annual business meeting. We look forward to the great things in store for your presidency (and couldn’t help but share a photo from when it all started!)
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Happy National #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth! Here's our plan this month: . ❗ Raise awareness - screening saves lives & should now start at age 45.🎉 Celebrate the GIs who dedicate their lives to preventing #coloncancer.🤝 Provide resources to support GIs & their patients
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🎉 Congratulations are in order! Help us welcome our 115th President, Dr. Bishr Omary. His term officially begins June 1. Special thanks to our outgoing president @SeragHashem for paving the way! Learn about our new pres:
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We’re excited to welcome 5️⃣ new board members to the AGA Research Foundation, joining the new chair, Dr. Camilleri. Learn more about these dedicated members who will be carrying the Foundation’s work forward over the next few years. #GIResearch #GILeaders
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Happy #DressInBlueDay! 💙. Today governing board and staff 🔹 dress in blue 🔹 to raise awareness about #colorectalcancer and honor those impacted by #CRC. CRC is treatable when caught early – talk to your doctor about getting screened starting at age 45.
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It’s #AGAAdvocacy Day and we’re fighting on behalf of GI patient care issues — everything from #priorauth and #steptherapy reform, Medicare physician reimbursement, digestive disease research funding + more. @JGubatanMD @BCryer @DrKimEBarrett @penngihep
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⏰ #GI pop quiz! ⏰ What could cause iron deficiency anemia? . ▪️ Not eating enough foods 🥩 🍗 🍤 🥦 🍫 with iron.▪️ Problems with absorbing iron.▪️ Suffering from too much blood 🩸 loss due to #IBD or #hemorrhoids. If you guessed all of the above, you’re correct! ✅ (1/2)
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📣Just Released by @AGA_Gastro: AGA Rapid Review: GI and Liver Manifestations of #COVID19. A meta-analysis of international data and recommendations for consultative management of coronavirus patients.
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We're celebrating #WorldIBDDay2019 at #DDW19! After a day of #IBD education, AGA will be hosting a World IBD Day Reception. Please join us at 5:30 p.m. on the Center Terrace of the convention center. Don't forget to wear your purple for the group photo 📸
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WE DID IT! 🥳 Starting in January 2023, patients with #Medicare who need a #colonoscopy after a positive non-invasive stool test for #ColorectalCancer screening will not have to pay for the test. RT to spread the good news! #GITwitter
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What an all-star lineup of residents who are joining @CCF_GIFellows! 😍 Congratulations and #WelcomeToGI from the #AGAGastroSquad!.
Congratulations to a superstar cast of residents who matched to GI fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic! @CCF_GIFellows @FnuVikash @AhmedNadeemMD @AsthaSainiDO @MazenAlmasry4 @Natalie_Farha @TausifSidMD @mattie_md @Chatterjee_MD @AbdulAhmedMD @tqaziMD @Ari_G_MD @CCF_IMCHIEFS
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Congratulations to @BilalMohammadMD and @LizzieAbyMD, two GI and hep rock stars! 🤩.
Congratulations to two @UMN_GIHep faculty on winning the resident faculty teacher of the year award for their respective clinical sites!. ⭐️Minneapolis VA: @BilalMohammadMD .⭐️University of MN: @LizzieAbyMD . Our faculty are grateful to teach amazing trainees!. #GITwitter #MedEd
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We had a great time celebrating a successful @DDWMeeting with staff and members at last night’s President's Reception at @smithsoniannpg. 🤩 Thanks to all who attended!
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#GITwitter, make sure you're #HereForDDW! The AGA Institute Council just met to schedule AGA abstract sessions and finalize programming for #DDW2023. You won't want to miss it! . Registration for @DDWMeeting is now open.
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