We are dedicated to excellence in patient care, research, and the training of future leaders in the study and treatment of digestive and liver diseases.
We are very excited to announce the Dr Judy Trieu
@TrieuMD
will be joining our biliary and interventional endoscopy team this July. She is currently completing her advanced endoscopy fellowship at
@UNCGastro
. Looking forward to working with you and learning from you Dr Trieu!
Congratulations to
@AhmadBazarbashi
who has been appointed director of third space endoscopy program. This program offers advanced endoscopic procedures such as per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), Zenker diverticulum management and more.
We are thrilled to announce that
@BalissMichelle
from
@SLUgastro
will be joining us July 2024 as our
@ASGEendoscopy
advanced endoscopy fellow. We are looking forward to working with you! Congratulations to everyone on their AE fellowship match.
We are thrilled to welcome our amazing incoming
#GIFellowship
class!
@QuazimAlayo
, Sarah Alharfi, Siri Ancha, Kevin Garza, Brett Riederman and Janaki Shah! Congratulations and we can’t wait to meet you!
The future is 💫💫
We are thrilled to have Dr. Lindsay Meurer
@linds_md
join our transplant hepatology team later this year! Dr. Meurer is a
@YaleDigestive
alumnus and completing her tx liver fellowship at
@UTSWGI
.We look forward to her contributions in providing exceptional care to our patients!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Jalpa Devi as the first international IBD fellow at
@IbdWustl
Dr. Devi brings her expertise and passion for IBD training, adding a global perspective to our program. Looking forward to an enriching exchange of knowledge and collaboration!
We are thrilled to welcome our new GI fellows to the team! 🎉 We're excited to see their growth and celebrate the achievements ahead as they embark on this incredible journey in gastroenterology 😀
#gitwitter
@AmCollegeGastro
@WUDeptMedicine
Congratulations graduating GI fellows! We are proud to have you as part of the
@WUGastro
family and excited to follow you on your future endeavors!
@AmCollegeGastro
#Classof2022
We are so excited to announce that our very own superstar GI Fellow
@MeganWhiteMD
will be joining our transplant hepatology fellowship program in 2024 after a successful
@AASLDtweets
fellowship match. Congratulations Dr White!
We are excited to announce the appointment of
@JPGenereMD
as director of our interventional inflammatory bowel disease (iIBD) program. Dr Reyes provides advanced endoscopic care to patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Thank you for the great care you provide to all patients.
Celebrating the 2022 Gregory J. Gurtner Memorial Lecture speaker Dr. Lauren Nephew. Thank you Dr. Nephew for a wonderful presentation! We look forward to your continued success as a role model and mentor.
Congratulations, Dr. Lisker-Melman, for being awarded the AASLD Distinguished Clinician/Educator Mentor Award (DCEMA) for 2022!
@AASLDtweets
We are thankful for your continued service to the liver disease community!
@NODGastro
@AASLDPresident
"🎓 Congratulations to
@WUGastro
fellows on graduating from the GI, Transplant Hepatology, IBD, and Interventional endoscopy fellowship programs! 🎉 Your hard work, dedication, and pursuit of knowledge in gastroenterology have paid off. Wishing you all the best as you embark on
Congratulations to ZeNan Chang, MD, PhD, First Year Gastroenterology Fellow, for being this year's recipient of the Gregory J. Gurtner, MD Internal Medicine Residency Research Award!
We are proud and delighted to announce that Dr. Dayna Early
@DaynaEarly
has been awarded the ASGE Distinguished Endoscopic Research Mentoring Award to be presented at DDW in May 2023. Incredibly well-deserved recognition for an exceptional mentor and role model for women in GI
Very proud of our WU GI faculty & fellows for their amazing successes
@DDWMeeting
65 presentations-44 posters,12 oral presentations,9 invited talks/moderator sessions! We look forward to learning more about your research in May!
@NODGastro
@IbdWustl
@WUSTLmed
@WashUDPS
We are delighted to announce that Dr. José Saenz has been awarded the 2022 Young Physician Scientist Award on behalf of the American Society of Clinical Investigation-- Congratulations José on this well deserved recognition!
We are thrilled to welcome back Dr Arvind Rengarajan who will be joining our interventional and biliary endoscopy section in July. Arvind completed his GI training
@WUGastro
and is currently completing his interventional endoscopy fellowship
@NMGastro
. We are looking forward to
Congratulations to Dr. Martin Gregory, Advanced IBD Fellow, for being awarded the prestigious 2021 Knowlton Incentive for Excellence Award! This is a huge honor and richly deserved.
Congratulations to graduating advanced endoscopy fellow
@AhmadBazarbashi
! We’re so proud to watch you grow since 1st-year to become a confident & accomplished academic advanced endoscopist!
@WUGastro
is lucky to have a new rising 🌟 faculty.
#BrighamAdvEndoAlum
#BrighamGIAlum
Congratulations to Juan Reyes Genere and Vlad Lamm, awarded a grant through the Litwin IBD Pioneers Program! Litwin IBD Pioneers supports researchers who are exploring all possible opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic improvements, including novel, out-of-the-box ideas,
Congratulations to all those who've submitted their
@ASGEendoscopy
Advanced endoscopy fellowship applications. We are looking forward to meeting you! Here are a few highlights about our interventional endoscopy fellowship program
1/6
This week we celebrated the graduation of our wonderful GI, Hepatology, and Biliary fellows and cheered them on for their journey onwards! Congratulations to
@WUGastro
graduating fellows. Great things ahead!
(photo missing:
@Tamara_alhobayb
@nealalphabet
Parth Shah)
Grateful to have had the privilege of hosting Dr. Aasma Shaukat
@AasmaShaukatMD
as the esteemed Burton Shatz Visiting Professor at
@WUGastro
. Her insightful talk on quality indicators for colonoscopy was highly informative and thought-provoking. Thank you for sharing your
Congratulations, Dr. Rodney Newberry
@newberrylab
, for being elected President of the Society for Mucosal Immunology for 2022! We are so proud of you!
@MucosalImmunol
@NODGastro
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Devan Patel for being awarded the Clinical Care-Medical Team Distinguished Service Teaching Award for teaching in the academic year 2020-2021. We are so proud of you Devan!
@WUDeptMedicine
@WUSTLmed
@WashUIMRes
Congratulations
@JPGenereMD
@DaynaEarly
,
@vladimirlamm
and team for winning the Big Ideas Competition organized by Healthcare Innovation Lab (the Lab) and Washington University Institute for Informatics (I2)! Their Digital Colonoscopy Preparation Navigator idea won a grant for
🎉 Congratulations to Drs. Jill Elwing, Jaquelyn Fleckenstein,
@KapuriaMD
, Osama Altayar, and
@P_DeepakIBDMD
on their well-deserved fellow-awarded outstanding faculty awards at the
@WUGastro
fellowship graduation! 🌟 Your commitment, expertise, and dedication to education and
Big congrats to Dr. Stewart Cao
@Siyan_Cao
on receiving travel awards for DDW 2023 Basic Science and Kenneth Rainin IBD Symposium! 🎉👏 Your dedication to advancing research in gastroenterology is truly inspiring. Well-deserved recognition for your achievements!
#DDW2023
We are excited to announce the Washington University Advanced Endoscopy Fellows Course!
For senior GI, advanced endoscopy and surgical fellows, join us September 7th & 8th for didactics and hands-on sessions with
@WUGastro
@WashUSurgery
faculty and national experts.See attached!
What an inspiring talk by
@AmyOxentenkoMD
today about Equity and Allyship in GI! We still have a long way to go, but with amazing mentors, sponsors and allies, we are on our way to achieving critical mass for women in GI.
#WomeninGI
#heforshe
#DiversityandInclusion
This September is
#WIMMonth
and we're delighted to highlight each of our outstanding
@WUGastro
women physicians, scientists, nurse practitioners, and fellows during this month of recognition and celebration! It's an honor & privilege to have you all
#HereWithUs
@WashUFWIM
New faculty alert! Welcome, Dr. Jason Pan, to the
@WUGastro
family. Dr. Pan joins our hepatology department, and we look forward to working with him!
@NODGastro
@WUDeptMedicine
🎉 Welcome to our talented Interventional Endoscopy Fellows joining the amazing team at
@WUGastro
! 🌟 We're excited to embark on this transformative journey with you.
@ASGEendoscopy
#GItwitter
A little late but congratulations to our
@WUGastro
faculty, fellows, alumni, residents, students, trainees and research collaborators for a great
@DDWMeeting
. So great to see all your hard work come to fruition. Congratulations!
@NODGastro
@KapuriaMD
@AhmadBazarbashi
We had an amazing time welcoming our new fellows and faculty at our Fellow and Faculty reception!
We look forward to working, collaborating, and having some fun with this wonderful group!
#GITwitter
@WUDeptMedicine
@WashUMedODEI
Happy Dress in Blue Day! Today, let's raise awareness for colon cancer and encourage screening by wearing blue. Let's support survivors, caregivers, and those lost to the disease.
#DressInBlueDay
#ColonCancerAwarenessMonth
💙
Congratulations to Dr. Christina Kratschmer
@KinaMDPhD
for being named an AGA Innovation Fellow! Competing with other bright minds around the country, she's among the selected few attending the AGA tech summit in San Francisco to revolutionize the industry. Way to go, Dr.
Congratulations to Vlad Kushnir, MD, our new Director of Interventional Endoscopy! Vlad has developed novel endoscopic devices and applications, and contributed original research across a wide range of interests. We look forward to Vlad's leadership in the interventional section!
Huge 🥳 🎉🎊 to Mike & team
@thompsonmd3
@NODgastro
@WashUDPS
@WUSTLPeds
Their 🌟 paper showing that maternal obesity influences bile acid & hepatic lipid metabolism via alterations in microbiota has been selected as an APS select article in
@ajpgi
Matthew Ciorba, MD,
@CiorbaGI
@WUGastro
@WUSTLmed
, has received an award from
@theNCI
@NIH
to evaluate a new treatment in combination with routine radiation and chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.
Learn more>(opens in a new tab)
On behalf of our biliary and interventional endoscopy group, we are excited to announce the upcoming WashU Advanced Endoscopy course. September 5th/6th 2024. Outstanding lineup of lectures and faculty. Fellows hands-on course with travel grants available. See details attached.
Thank you to all those who registered to our annual therapeutic endoscopy course in September. We are looking forward to meeting you all.
Fellow grants available. Check out the agenda, lineup of lectures by invited faculty and hands-on sessions. See below for more information
Congratulations to Stewart Cao for receiving the Career Development Award from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation! What an incredible achievement!
@CrohnsColitisFn
,
@Siyan_Cao
,
@NODGastro
Truly honored to welcome Dr. Silvia Vilarinho, MD, PhD, as the 19th Gregory J. Gurtner Visiting Lecturer at the
@WUGastro
DDRC research conference! Diving into crucial discussions on Genes, Genomes, and Liver Disease.
Congratulations to Dr. Qianli Wang, incoming
@WUGastro
GI fellow- recipient of the Gregory J. Gurtner, MD Internal Medicine Residency Research Award! Well-deserved recognition for outstanding contributions!
Excellent hands-on session at the VA for SLU &
@WUGastro
fellows!
Thank U
@AhmadBazarbashi
@TrieuMD
@ArvindRenga
& all of our amazing VA attendings for your teaching efforts!
✅EMR of tubular Gel-inomas on endogel 🤣
✅biliary cannulation
✅biliary stents
✅enteric stents
Celebrating the 2022 Ray Clouse Professor of Excellence. Wonderful presentation from Shanthi Srinivasan, MD Chief of GI
@Emory
and former trainee
@WU
-Gastro. We are so proud of her accomplishments and successes as a role model and mentor.
Meet the fellows!
Dr. Ancha is one of our new first-year GI fellows (and perhaps our only one to share the stage with POTUS!)
We hope that your new journey with us will be exciting and fruitful. Welcome aboard!
@WUDeptMedicine
#FYF
#GITwitter
Join the WashU General GI faculty! We’re looking for gastroenterologists to be a part of our dynamic team. Apply now for an open-ranking position in a nurturing community committed to innovation and education. Experience excellence with us! Apply here
We are delighted to now offer EUS-guided portal pressure measurements as part of our endohepatology program! Pictured is our own Dr. Natalie Cosgrove with this excellent new tool to help evaluate suspected hepatic disease.
Dr. Lauren D. Nephew discusses disparities in liver disease in her excellent talk for the Eighteenth annual Gregory J. Gurtner lecture. We are honored to have you present at
@WUGastro
!
@WashUDPS
@WashUFWIM
Outstanding presentation on endoscopic management of gastric outlet obstruction and the role of EUS-guided gastroenterostomy by Dr Reyes Genere
@JPGenereMD
at this weeks
@WUGastro
division rounds. 👏👏👏
#ColonCancer
awareness! Our wonderful
@WUGastro
colleagues
@JWangMD
@MeganWhiteMD
and JoAnn Ellison spent last Saturday at the First Ladies of St. Louis Health Equity event in Ferguson doing community outreach and giving out free FIT kits for colon cancer screening!
@STLCounty
Exciting lineup of
@WUGastro
speakers & presenters at
#DDW2023
on May 6th! Get ready to learn about cutting-edge IBD research, liver disease, interventional endoscopy, & motility disorders. Don't miss out on these informative presentations & sessions!
@DDWMeeting
@MaiaKayalMD
Congratulations to AE fellow
@matthewpellerMD
and mentor Koushik Das on their recent publication in
@Gastro_Clinics
on blood-based biomarkers in pancreatic cysts. Check out their comprehensive review here!
Happy Dress in Blue Day, Colon Bear fans! Show your
@WUSTL
spirit and support colon cancer awareness by wearing blue today. Check out the inflatable colon exhibit to learn about colon health. Let's spread awareness and prioritize our colon health!
#DressInBlueDay
🐻💙
From esophageal stents for refractory variceal bleeding to EUS-guided coil therapy for bleeding gastric varices,
@AhmadBazarbashi
discusses options for variceal bleeding treatment beyond banding at last week's
@WUGastro
division rounds.
Exciting work by our very own Dr Koushik Das and co.
Cutting-edge multidisciplinary translational research, from
@WUGastro
,
@WashURadOnc
and
@WashUSurgery
currently under review
@Nature_NPJ
Precision Oncology. Standard of care, time of diagnosis, EUS-FNB of suspected pancreatic