Our recent experience in gastroenterology includes an ongoing relationship, starting in 2018, with the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and opinion leaders from among the association’s members (physicians, pharmacists, NPs, PAs and patient advocates) to develop educational programs on a number of important topics including:
Biosimilars in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): A series of 3 educational programs, dedicated to informing HCPs and patients about the evolving clinical equivalence of biosimilars and the originator biologics. As summarized on this infographic Biosimilar or Biologic. It doesn’t matter which. Here’s why, there is now general agreement that biosimilars ARE biologics.
Roadmap for the Future of Colorectal Cancer Screening: This educational eLearning module chaired by Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine was developed to encourage the gastroenterology community to work together to increase the rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and reduce mortality due to CRC.
Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus: This eLearning program chaired by Marcia Irene Canto, MD, Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, covers key insights from two multidisciplinary consensus conferences related to the role of emerging technology, innovation and current strategies for disease detection, risk stratification and management.
Innovation in Duodenoscope Design: The AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology developed an educational program in 2022 to address safety concerns reported by the FDA associated with infections related to reprocessing duodenoscopes. To support the program Medical Minds developed two live webinar presentations on Infection Control in Endoscopy with questions and discussion, co-chaired by Uzma D. Siddiqui, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics, UChicago Medicine and Adarsh M. Thaker, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA.
Principles of GI for the NP and PA: Updated highlights from the annual meeting cover important issues in short eLearning segments covering multiple topics.