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Rumblings SPRING 2023
WINTER 2023
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY / NEWSLETTER
President’s Message / David L. Diehl, MD, FACP, FASGE President’s Message / David L. Diehl, MD, FACP, FASGE
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The Importance oftheMentoring Another Spring is upon us in beautiful Commonwealth of Pennsylvania! To
our members from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and everywhere in between (now
attending physicians at one’s The PSG is launching a including West Virginia!), the PSG would likeown to thank youprogram for your participation training work very mentorship program for GIeveryone about in the Society. I would like to remind our group membership hard to train GI fellows, but this is Fellows and career discount, and weearly urge you to talk to your practice manager andfrom partners about generally different a mentoring taking advantage of this opportunity for discounted membership for multiple GI physicians. We will relationship. members. Pleaseout contact our executive director Audrey Dean be reaching to those (adean@pamedsoc.org) for details on how Itohave participate. been lucky enough to have of you who would like to some important mentors in my participate project. We are planningin onthis rolling out the PSG mentorship program this year. Please
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medical career. The first was look at the list of topics that are available toassigned provide mentorship fellows to me whentoI GI was a first-and Many of us have benefitted from early-stage GI physicians. If you have an interest in becoming a mentor, please medical student. His name mentors. Perhaps us havea list of year let us know so that some we canofcompile mentors as we work on advertising was Eugene “Skip” Felmar, MD and suffered for the lack of a mentor this program to GI fellows in Pennsylvania and Westa Virginia. Drop meattending (dldiehl@ he was Family Practice during our education or training. geisinger.edu) or Audrey an email indicatinginyour interest in participating. the San Fernando Valley area of Mentors can have a lifelong impact Southern California. I enjoyed going on their trainees, but theAnnual relationship Our plans for an exciting Meeting continue apace. are grateful tohim out to his officeWe and shadowing does not go in Kochhar only onefor direction. Dr. Gursimran accepting the role of director, and he has worked closely while he saw outpatients, Mentors can get much benefit andof speakers. hard to create anas outstanding line-up The meeting is scheduled for rounded on inpatients, and did office satisfaction their mentees can. September as 8 through 10 in Pittsburgh. A close-to-final version of the schedule procedures. Beyond gaining valuable Gastroenterology, other areas of This can be found in thislike issue of Rumblings. year will hands-on insight intoalso theinclude practice of medicine, medical is akin to a “guild”, sessionstraining highlighting various technologies in endoscopy; be sure to register for I found out why his nickname was where the experienced take the the hands-on early as capacity is limited. The venue for the meeting will be the “Skip” after he took me out on his novice under theirPittsburgh wing to train Wyndham Grand Downtown Hotel, whichwhich has ahe great location inat the sailboat kept docked them in the arts of city. Information ontheir how chosen to register and reserve your hotel room will be sent in the Los Angeles harbor. Skip Felmar field. All GI fellows, including us the near future. became a role model for me, and way back when, had trainers and the mentor-mentee relationship was coaches that typically staff Elsewhere in this issuewere of Rumblings, there mutually are messages from Drs. Joyann Kroser rewarding. gastroenterologists ourare program. and Ralph McKibbin,atwho ACG Governors for the state, an update on the Many medical schools provide for (DDNC) by Dr. McKibbin, and a report on Digestive Disease National Coalition Another highly impactful mentor mentor relationships, but in this is less cost versus quality of care and outside ofthat health systems by the Pennsylvania I had was someone that I chose common in GI training. Certainly, Medical Society President, Dr. Wilson Jackson. myself. Dick Kozarek, MD was (and
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1 President’s Message 1 President’s Message 3 Practice Management 4 Level-Up, Dr. Jackson 4 GI Supergroups 6 DDNC Update
6 Venue Shopping 7 Thapar Named Chair 8 EMR or ESD? 8 ACG Governor’s Update 11 Roulette 9 I Talk to My Cyst
13 Jeopardy Winners 10 Geisinger Global Health Elective 14 Annual Meeting Highlights 13 ChatGPT Poetry 16 Board and Staff 14 PSG Annual Meeting Agenda