Johns Hopkins Review of Medical and Surgical Gastroenterology Johns Hopkins Clinical Update

Johns Hopkins Clinical Update

Expert-Led Learning

In the Johns Hopkins Review of Medical and Surgical Gastroenterology, leading experts discuss diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and liver disease. Speakers from the 35th annual conference cover a wide range of relevant topics, including diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis, understanding immunosuppression management in the post-liver transplant patient, delineating the role for surgical versus endoscopic approaches to gastric cancer, and treating the pregnant patient with elevated liver function tests.

After completing the course, you’ll be better able to:

• Identify and scrutinize the best approach to the management of hepatobiliary disorder
• Describe updates and paradigm changes in the treatment of various liver diseases
• Outline the medical and surgical approaches to esophageal and gastric disease
• Identify and utilize the latest therapeutic modalities to the management of inflammatory bowel disease
• Analyze and review the various GI conditions that may affect a pregnant patient
• Assess the various options for bariatric surgery and delineate diagnosis algorithms for GI bleeding

Convenient CME

Available online or via audio MP3 CDs, this program lets you gain practical working knowledge of the advances in various GI disorders at your convenience. You can earn a maximum of 12.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ without interrupting your busy schedule with travel. Learn and earn the continuing medical education credits you need with this practical and relevant program.

• Resecting Pancreatic Cancer: What Are the Limits? – Kyoichi Takaori, MD, PhD, FACS, FIASGO

• Biliopancreatic Endoscopy: What Future Technology Will Fulfill the Unmet Needs? – Raj Shah, MD, FASGE, AGAF

• DEBATE: Minimally Invasive Pancreatectomy: Robotically or Laparoscopically? – Barish Edil, MD, FACS and Matthew Weiss, MD

• Could This Be Autoimmune Pancreatitis? – Anne Marie Lennon, MD, PhD, FASGE

• Management of Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: What Can I Apply to My Practice? – Taizo Hibi, MD, PhD, FIASGO

• Hepatitis A to E: What Are the Keys to Successful Management? – Gregory T. Everson, MD

• Surgical Treatment of Gallbladder Cancer – Ho-Seong Han, MD, PhD, FIASGO

• Liver Transplantation: When to Refer and What Are the Outcomes? – James Burton, MD

• My Patient Has a Liver Lesion: What Should I Do? – Richard D. Schulick, MD, MBA, FACS

• Non-invasive Methods to Evaluate Liver Disease – James Hamilton, MD

• Immunosuppression for the Practicing Physician: What Do You Need to Know? – James Burton, MD

• GERD: No Improvement with PPI…What Next? – Ellen Stein, MD

• Gastric Cancer: Endoscopic Versus Surgical Resection – Kazuhiro Yoshida, MD, PhD, FACS, FIASGO

• Intestinal Metaplasia in the Stomach: Approach and Management – Saowanee Ngamruengphong, MD

• Barrett’s Management: Screening and Dysplasia…When to Survey, When to Ablate, and When to Refer to a Surgeon – Shelby Sullivan, MD

• How to Take Advantage of the Biology of Cancer – Dan Duda, DMD, PhD, FIASGO

• GI Bleeding: I Think It’s Coming from the Upper GI Tract – Steven Edmundowicz, MD

• Colon Cancer: The Surgical Approach – Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCRS, FIASGO

• Post-operative Prophylaxis Following Ileocolonic Resection – Mark Lazarev, MD

• DEBATE: IBD with Multifocal Low Grade Dysplasia in the Colon: Resect or Surveillance? – Mark Lazarev, MD and Jon Vogel, MD

• The Impact of Medical Therapy on Surgical Decisions in IBD – Jon Vogel, MD

• Clostridium difficile: Update in 2018 – Alyssa Parian, MD

• How to Diagnose and Manage Liver Disease During Pregnancy – James Hamilton, MD

• My Patient is Pregnant and Has Right Sided Abdominal Pain – Jonathan Schoen, MD

• My Patient is Pregnant with Crohn’s – Alyssa Parian, MD

• Motility Issues in Pregnancy – Ellen Stein, MD

• I Just Perforated My Patient…Now What? – Saowanee Ngamruengphong, MD

• Are Endoscopic Bariatric Procedures Ready for Prime Time? – Shelby Sullivan, MD

• Surgical Bariatric Therapy – Jonathan Schoen, MD

• Microscopic Colitis: An Overview – Eduardo Gonzalez, MD

• GI Bleeding: No, It’s Lower – Eduardo Gonzalez, MD

• Advances in Pancreas Surgery – Barish Edil, MD, FACS