Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Anthony Borrelli, executive director of product & marketing for Fujifilm’s endoscopy division.Fujifilm recently received 510K clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for CAD EYE, a novel artificial intelligence detection system for endoscopic imaging that enables real-time detection of polyps and adenomas …

For Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam speaks with Dr. Srinadh Komanduri, associate chief of gastroenterology and hepatology and director of endoscopy at Northwestern Medicine, about efforts to educate the public about esophageal cancer and cutting-edge tools that are helping gastroenterologists determine which of their patien…

Kevin Harlen interviews Robert Raleigh, chief operating officer and general counsel for Sebela Pharmaceuticals, which has been innovating in the area of colonoscopy prep since the 1980’s.Achieving adequate bowel preparation is challenging but critical to achieve a good-quality colonoscopy. But many studies have shown that a majority of patients hav…

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Prashant Krishnan and Dr. Neil Sharma of Peak Gastroenterology Associates in Colorado about building an interventional gastroenterology practice.Peak Gastroenterology is working to deliver interventional endoscopy and endoscopic oncology care to its community, which has historically only been available in larger…

Host Kevin Harlen interviews Sap Sinha, chief operating officer of Allied Digestive Health, where he leads its management service organization.Allied Digestive Health has multiple locations in New Jersey and New York, with 160 gastroenterologists and more than 200 clinicians. The organization recently partnered with Provation, so that physicians an…

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Russ Arjal, who is the co-founder, chief medical officer, and president of Telebelly Health, a virtual GI clinic offering remote care to patients.Telebelly Health provides nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and medical assistants to support GI practices and their patients.Join Dr. Mathews and Dr. Arjal as they…

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Andreas Muehler, chief medical officer of Immunic Therapeutics, which is developing a clinical pipeline of orally administered, small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.At United European Gastroenterology Week, Immunic presented data from the company’s phase 1b clinical trial of …

Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus are at a higher risk to develop esophageal cancer, but it has always been challenging for physicians to determine which of their patients are at greatest risk.Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Matthew Goldberg, who is medical director of Castle Biosciences about TissueCypher, a test to help gastroenterologists s…

Dr. Lisa Mathews interviews Dr. Min Dong and Dr. Meenakshi Rao of the Boston Children’s Hospital regarding new research published in Nature that shows two FDA-approved drugs can alter our body’s own immune response to treat Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) more effectively.C. diff is the leading cause of gastrointestinal infections in the United …

This summer, four new biosimilar drugs became available to U.S. patients and several more are expected to hit the market soon.Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Laura D. Wingate, executive vice president, education, support, & advocacy for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation about the positive and negative implications of this development for patients.W…

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Veena Shankaran, co-director of Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, about a new study that found most patients with metastatic colorectal cancer face financial hardship after diagnosis.While has been a lot of research on the economic burden of cancer treatment, this is the first study that looks at newl…

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Harold Miller, president and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, national policy center that works to improve healthcare payment and delivery systems.Mr. Miller discusses how our current health care model encourages consolidation and the challenges this creates for private practice physicians.J…

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Giselle Carlotta-McDonald, who is the executive director of Project Access-New Haven, which employs community health workers to address colorectal cancer (CRC) screening disparities among Connecticut residents, particularly in African American and Latino communities.Project Access has been successful at reducing the CRC s…

For Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Dr. Abdul Saied Calvino, a surgical oncologist at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island and assistant professor of surgical oncology at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.Dr. Calvino helped develop a program tailored specifically t…

Many independent GI practices are familiar with the effects of physician burnout, which has become an epidemic in the U.S. health care system. Almost two-thirds of physicians have reported signs of burnout such as emotional exhaustion and a decrease in satisfaction with work-life integration at least once per week.Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Rach…

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Vasu Appaleneni, a practicing gastroenterologist at Dayton Gastroenterology, and executive vice president of clinical innovation at One GI, a physician-led managed services organization.Dr. Appalaneni knew she would become a physician from an early age, and her entrepreneurial spirit led her to private practice gastro…

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Jenny Harrison, who is the director of communications of Girls with Guts, a non-profit organization that supports and empowers women with inflammatory bowel disease and/or ostomies.Ms. Harrison provides her inspiring story of living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) as a teenager, and why she joined Girls with Guts…

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Prasad Iyer about new approaches to screening patients and detecting earlier stages of Barrett’s esophagus and associated dysplasia that can prevent esophageal cancer.Dr. Iyer is director of the esophageal interest group in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, where he is active in…

Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam interviews Dr. Justin Forde about what GI fellows are focused on and thinking about as they begin their careers and what innovations they may bring into the organizations they join.Dr. Forde is chief gastroenterology fellow at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System and an advanced endoscopy fellow at the University of F…

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Lindee Goh, who leads the healthcare practice with Tapestry Networks, an organization that brings together health care industry leaders to learn from one another, explore new ideas, and collaborate to solve problems working across the public and private sectors.Dr. Goh co-directs the Inflammatory Bowel Disease S…

Two out of five GI fellows are women but account for less 18 percent of practicing gastroenterologists, and the number of women in leadership positions is even lower. Dr. Anita Afzali and Dr. Aline Charabaty share their experience in gastroenterology with host Lisa Mathew and discuss their plans to address some of the challenges women face in medic…

While at Digestive Disease Week last month, Dr. Michael Weinstein sat down to record a live interview with Dr. Nadeem Baig, vice president and chief medical officer of Allied Digestive Health in New Jersey. Join Dr. Weinstein and Dr. Baig for a wide-ranging discussion of issues affecting independent GI, including the process for merging smaller loc…

Dr. Michael Weinstein talks with Ellen Brooks of the Men’s Health Inequities (MHI) Research Lab at the University of Utah School of Medicine, who is a co-author of a new study on the prevalence of colorectal cancer (CRC) among long-haul truck drivers.Among a sample of more than 47,000 long-haul truck drivers between the ages of 21 and 85, obesity, …

Kevin Harlen interviews fellow Tar Heel Dr. Spencer Dorn about innovation in health care and several start up companies that are changing the way GI physicians treat and monitor patients.Dr. Dorn is a gastroenterologist, professor, and vice chair of medicine for care innovation at the UNC School of Medicine, where he focuses on how to bring people …

This week, Dr. Fred Rosenberg catches up with Dr. Mike Dragutsky, who is a practicing gastroenterologist at Gastro One, and chairman of One GI, a managed services organization with practices in five states that was envisioned, created and is guided by physicians.Dr. Dragutsky discusses his path in GI and why it's important for GI groups to develop …

Dr. Michael Weinstein of Capital Digestive Care talks to Erin Peterson of the Colon Cancer Coalition and Dr. Milena Gould Suarez of Baylor College of Medicine about the Faces of Blue campaign and the patients, physicians, and family members who share their experiences with colorectal cancer. By highlighting the personal stories of patients and surv…

Dr. Michael Weinstein of Capital Digestive Care talks to Dr. Costas Kefalas from Akron Digestive Disease Consultants about his work as the president of the GI Quality Improvement Consortium (GIQuIc), a benchmarking registry that tracks quality measures such as cecal intubation rates, withdrawal times and adenoma detection rates.Hear about the path …

Dr. Lisa Mathew is joined by Dr. Michael Kreines of Gastro Health Ohio, who helped develop a continuing medical education (CME) program that facilitates engagement with primary care physicians (PCPs) in the Cinncinnati metropolitan area.The program built by Gastro Health Ohio brings in experts on many issues facing PCPs and GI physicians in Ohio, w…

Dr. Fred Rosenberg talks with Dr. Daus Mahnke of Gastroenterology of the Rockies about the environment for private practice in Colorado.Dr. Mahnke discusses his path to gastroenterology, how his practice responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the groups experience with adding the GI Genius artificial intelligence (AI) endoscopy module that helps G…

Scott Becker is an expert in all things related to the business of gastroenterology.He is a sought-after healthcare attorney and a partner at McGuireWoods and publisher of Becker's Healthcare, a leading source of business information for hospital leaders and owners and operators of ambulatory surgery centers.Dr. Michael Weinstein talks with Scott a…

Dr. Lisa Mathew is joined by Dr. Nundhini Thukkani of Kaiser Permanente in Portland Oregon to discuss how (and why) Dr. Thukkani founded the wildly popular Ladies of the Gut group on Facebook that provides a forum for #WomenInGI. Dr. Thukkani discusses how she began her career in an independent GI practice and found her way to Kaiser, where she val…

Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam talks with Dr. Chris Fourment, CEO of Clinical Research Strategy Group about independent GI practices can develop or improve clinical trials infrastructure, which increases their ability to participate in clinical trials and allows sustainability of research as a practice ancillary.Dr. Fourment says some practices face challen…

Dr. Lisa Mathew talks with Dr. Supriya Rao of Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants of Chelmsford, Mass. about several programs she helped start within the independent practice outside of Boston.Dr. Rao takes a multifaceted approach to helping her patient improve their overall health by focusing on weight management, stress, sleep and nutrition.D…

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a moratorium on elective procedures, including colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.Dr. Fred Rosenberg talks with Dr. George Dickstein of Greater Boston Gastroenterology about how his practice pivoted to telehealth and remote working and put in place safety measures t…

This week, Dr. Lisa Mathew connects with Dr. Peter Liang of NYU Langone Health, a long-time friend and colleague to hear about his work with early career physicians and fellows as chair of the American Gastroenterology Association's (AGA) Trainee and Early Career Committee.Dr. Liang shares his path to academic gastroenterology and how the AGA is pr…

Dr. Michael Weinstein of Capital Digestive Care checks in with Dr. Glenn Littenberg of inSite Digestive Health Care, the largest GI practice in California, with offices from San Francisco to Irvine. Dr. Littenberg discusses updates in billing and coding and what the future may hold for independent GI practices in California. Join Dr. Weinstein and …

This week, Kevin Harlen talks with Michael Osso, president and CEO of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation about its mission to cure inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and to improve the quality of life for children and adults affected by these diseases.A recent study which found that Black patients presenting with textbook symptoms of IBD like iron defi…

This week, Dr. Fred Rosenberg talks with Lili Brillstein, CEO of BCollaborative, a consultancy that helps payers, providers, pharmaceutical companies, start-ups and other stakeholders progress the movement from fee for service to patient-focused, value-based care models.As the director for episodes of care with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New…

Dr. Lisa Mathew talks with Dr. Austin Chiang about his path in gastroenterology and how he has used social media to connect with patients and confront misinformation about medicine.Dr. Chiang is director of the Endoscopic Bariatric Program and chief social media officer at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. He is also the founding president of the A…

This is one of those episodes you've been waiting for. Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Larry Kosinski of SonarMD about his path in gastroenterology, and what sparked his interest in becoming an entrepreneur. From developing ambulatory surgery centers and infusion centers, to creating a system that improves the ability to monitor patients with …

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Phoenix, Ariz. has experienced several surges in cases, becoming a hot spot for COVID-19 more than once. This week, Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam talks with Dr. Paul Berggreen of Arizona Digestive Health about how his practice implemented telehealth in the early days of the pandemic.Join Dr. Gunaratnam and Dr. Berggreen…

Kevin Harlen sits down for a conversation with Chris Metz and Steve Somers of Gastrologix, the presenting sponsors of Gastro Broadcast.Gastrologix was created to help independent GI practices to lower costs, operate more efficiently and expand services, so that GI physicians can remain independent and continue to provide a valuable alternative to t…

During Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Awareness Month in March, we’re hosting a series of conversations with physicians about the importance of being screened. This week, Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam talks with Dr. Pradeep Bekal of the Ohio Gastroenterology & Liver Institute and Dr. William Stern of Capital Digestive Care in the Washington DC metro area, about a…

For Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Awareness Month in March, we're hosting a series of conversations with physicians about the importance of being screened. Our guest this week is Dr. Marc Sonenshine of Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates, a division of United Gastroenterology.Dr. Fred Rosenberg and Dr. Sonenshine discuss an innovative program called Dire…

Throughout March, Gastro Broadcast is featuring a series of conversations to promote Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Awareness Month. This week, Kevin Harlen talks with Dr. Linda Rae Murray of the University of Illinois Chicago about community outreach and ways to reduce disparities in CRC screening.Kevin and Dr. Murray discuss Project Brotherhood, an inno…

In March, Gastro Broadcast will feature a series of conversations for Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Awareness Month. Our first guest in the series is Dr. Rachel Issaka of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.Dr. Lisa Mathews explores how Dr. Issaka became interested in a career in academia and her research on disparities in C…

Like our host Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam, Dr. John Carethers from the University of Michigan knew he wanted to be a physician from a young age. But Dr. Carethers journey took him into a career in academia, because he felt that it would be the best way to positively affect the most lives - through research and in training students to become GI physicians…

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Bishr Omary about his path to becoming a gastroenterologist and some of the initiatives he's been working on as the president of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA).One of those initiatives is the AGA Equity Project. In July 2020, an advisory board was formed to develop a multi-year strategic plan…

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA) about how his experience in emergency medicine shaped his advocacy for public health.Dr. Benjamin discusses APHA's work to improve public health and achieve health equity , how supporting STEM education among young people can help…

In honor of National Women Physicians Day, Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Jessica Fisher of Digestive Health Partners in Asheville, NC about her path to independent gastroenterology and the mentors who paved her way and provided support throughout her career.Dr. Mathew and Dr. Fisher met in the GI Fellowship Program at the University of Washington,…