Product Overview & Details for Harvard Gastroenterology 2024
The Comprehensive 2024 Gastroenterology Update
Syllabus : Harvard CME _ Gastroenterology
Date : June 10 – 13, 2024
Overview
This program ensures participants are current with state-of-the-art GI strategies and clinical practices. It covers recent advances and their impact on clinical approaches and on patient outcomes. Updates, best practices, and new guidelines are presented by nationally recognized GI experts and master clinicians.
Practical, Results-Driven Education
Highlights of the 2024 program include:
- Updated guidelines for the use of biologics in IBD
- Therapeutic drug monitoring in IBD treatment
- Management of the older adult with IBD
- Updated guidelines for treatment of C. difficile infection
- Managing GI complications of immunotherapy
- Improved management of IBS
- Tips to managing fecal incontinence
- Management of refractory GERD
- Expanded genetic testing options to diagnose hereditary GI cancer syndromes
- Management of fatty liver disease in 2024
- How to diagnose and manage cirrhosis
- How to improve your adenoma detection rate (ADR)
- Steps to ensure delivery of high-quality colonoscopic care
- Techniques to effectively control acute GI bleeding
- Endoscopic management of obesity
- When FMT is indicated for treatment
- Impact of COVID on the GI tract
- New strategies to treat common GI problems
- A comprehensive update of national guidelines
As new strategies, guidelines, and diagnostic and treatment options are presented, they are coupled with specific recommendations for incorporating these updates into your day-to-day work.
Education to Optimize Your Patient Outcomes
The evidence-based recommendations provided in this program cover:
- IBD
- GI Complications of Immunotherapy
- Microscopic Colitis
- Fatty Liver
- Barrett’s Esophagus
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- C. difficile Colitis
- Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- IBS
- Refractory GERD
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Chronic Pancreatitis
- Celiac Disease
- GI Bleeding
- High Risk for Colorectal Cancer
Recent Advances and Innovations
Clinicians can rely on this program for education on:
- Biological therapies for IBD: how to choose which agent to start with? How to monitor during treatment? What is the role for therapeutic drug monitoring? When to switch? What new agents are now available?
- Managing refractory pouchitis
- GI complications of immunotherapy — a common and heterogeneous disorder: how to approach and treat effectively?
- Eosinophilic esophagitis: how to decide between drug therapy and dietary therapy?
- The stool microbiome: understanding the science behind clinical applications
- Celiac disease: making sense of the multiple serologic tests—new therapeutic strategies are on the horizon
- Adenoma detection rates: critical to measure and how to incorporate strategies, including AI, to increase your rate
- Endoscopic approaches to managing obesity
This program also offers a glimpse into the future of gastroenterology with engaging lectures given by world-renowned experts on inspiring and cutting-edge topics.
Who Should Attend
- Gastroenterologists
- Internists
- Surgeons
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Welcome
Lecturer:Â Daniel Chung, MD - Which Initial Therapy to Choose for Crohn’s and UC?
Lecturer:Â Joshua Korzenik, MD - Management of Severe UC and Pouch-Related Complications
Lecturer:Â Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, MD, MPH - IBD in Pregnancy
Lecturer:Â Loren Rabinowitz, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Ananthakrishnan, Korzenik, and Rabinowitz - Management of the Older Adult with IBD
Lecturer:Â Bharati Kochar, MD - WORKSHOP 1: Cutaneous Manifestations of IBD
Lecturer:Â Daniela Kroshinsky, MD - Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in IBD
Lecturer:Â Adam Cheifetz, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Cheifetz, Kochar, and Kroshinsky - How to Manage Microscopic Colitis
Lecturer:Â Hamed Khalili, MD - GI Complications of Immunotherapy
Lecturer:Â Michael Dougan, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Dougan and Khalili - Who Should Have Genetic Testing for GI Cancer Syndromes?
Lecturer:Â Daniel Chung, MD - WORKSHOP 2: CRC Screening and How to Improve Your ADR
Lecturer:Â Ramona Lim, MD - Beyond Screening: What to Recommend to Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk
Lecturer:Â Andrew Chan, MD, MPH - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Chan, Chung, and Lim
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Barrett’s Esophagus: Whom and How to Treat?
Lecturer:Â Douglas Pleskow, MD - Esophageal Motility Disorders Made Easy
Lecturer:Â Barbara Nath, MD - Management of Refractory GERD
Lecturer:Â Norman Nishioka, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Nath, Nishioka, and Pleskow - Comprehensive Approach to Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Lecturer:Â Walter Chan, MD - Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity: 2024 Practitioner Updates
Lecturer:Â Ciaran Kelly, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Chan and Kelly - Making the Diagnosis of IBS
Lecturer:Â Kyle Staller, MD - Modern Strategies to Treat IBS
Lecturer:Â Vikram Rangan, MD - WORKSHOP 3: Tips to Managing Fecal Incontinence
Lecturer:Â Kyle Staller, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Rangan and Staller - Optimizing the Management of Gastroparesis
Lecturer:Â Braden Kuo, MD - How to Evaluate Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
Lecturer:Â Judy Nee, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Kuo and Nee
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- Cholestatic Liver Diseases: What’s New in PBC and PSC
Lecturer:Â Daniel Pratt, MD - Update on Autoimmune Hepatitis
Lecturer:Â Alan Bonder, MD - WORKSHOP 4: How to Approach Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI)
Lecturer:Â Michael Curry, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Bonder, Curry, and Pratt - Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
Lecturer:Â Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD - The Management of NAFLD
Lecturer:Â Kathleen Corey, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Corey and Szabo - WORKSHOP 5: How to Work Up a Liver Lesion
Lecturer:Â Karin Andersson, MD - Diagnosis and Routine Management of Cirrhosis
Lecturer:Â Michelle Lai, MD - Managing Advanced Liver Disease
Lecturer:Â Anna Rutherford, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Andersson, Lai, and Rutherford - Best Management Strategies in Acute Pancreatitis
Lecturer:Â David Jin, MD, MPH - Updates in Chronic Pancreatitis
Lecturer:Â Sunil Sheth, MD - Controversies in the Management of Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas
Lecturer:Â Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Fernandez-del Castillo, Jin, and Sheth
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- WORKSHOP 6: Tips to Removing the Difficult Polyp
Lecturer:Â Tyler Berzin, MD - Quality in Colonoscopy: What to Measure and Why It Matters
Lecturer:Â Mandeep Sawhney, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Berzin and Sawhney - Endoscopy and the Anticoagulated Patient
Lecturer:Â Kunal Jajoo, MD - Acute GI Bleeding and Other GI Emergencies
Lecturer:Â Linda Lee, MD - Endoscopic Approaches to Manage Obesity
Lecturer:Â Chris Thompson, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Jajoo, Lee, and Thompson - COVID in the GI Tract
Lecturer:Â Walter Chan, MD, MPH - What’s New in C. difficile Colitis
Lecturer:Â Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH - New Insights into the Gut Microbiome and Disease
Lecturer:Â Ramnik Xavier, MD - WORKSHOP 7: GI Cases to Remember
Lecturer:Â Douglas Horst, MD - Panel Q&A
Panelists:Â Drs. Allegretti, Chan, Horst, and Xavier
