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President’s Message / Karen Krok, MD, FAASLD, FACG President’s Message / David L. Diehl, MD, FACP, FASGE
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LIFELONG LEARNING. We know in medicine that our colleagues – or maybe even you - will discover new and better ways to treat something. That there will The of Mentoring be newImportance guidelines that we should learn and incorporate into our practice. That new medications will become available, and you may be asked to treat a disease physicians at one’s The PSG thought is launching abe treating –attending you hadn’t you would I never thought as a hepatologist own training program work very mentorship programweight for GI that I would be prescribing loss medications, but as this one of the best hard to train GI fellows, but this is treatmentsand for MASLD, it should be something we consider doing! Fellows earlythen career generally different from a mentoring GI physicians. We will relationship. We recently held our annual Pennsylvania Society of Gastroenterology Scientific be reaching out to those Meeting. This meeting brought together more than 100 physicians and APPs haveVirginia. been lucky enough tothank have Dr. throughout the would states of like Pennsylvania and IWest I would like to of you who to some important mentors in my Shailendra Singh, Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University, for participate inAssociate this project. career. first was his role as Program Chair. He brought a lotmedical of energy to the The meeting. Assisting assigned to me when I was a firsthim on the Program Committee was also Dr. Harshit Khara (Geisinger), Dr. Hadie Many of us have benefitted from year medical student. His name Razjouyan (Penn State Hershey), Dr. Matthew Kraft (WVU), Dr. Shyam Thakkar mentors. Perhaps some of us have was Eugene Felmar, MD and (WVU), Dr. Malik Health), Dr. Areeb Alikhan“Skip” (Fellow at Temple) and suffered forZubair the lack of (Virtua a mentor he was a Family Practice attending myself. Together we put together a dynamic conference. None of this could have during our education or training. in the San Fernando Valley area of been done, though, without the excellent organizational skills of Jessica Winger Mentors can have a lifelong impact Southern California. I enjoyed going shetheir has trainees, been the but program coordinator for more than 12 years now and brings on the relationship toDawn his office andthe shadowing him with her years of experience and expertise out - and Swartz, Association does not go in only one direction. closely while he saw outpatients, Executivecan of the Mentors getPSG. as much benefit and rounded on inpatients, and did office satisfaction asmorning their mentees The Saturday sessioncan. started withprocedures. topics concerning the gaining liver andvaluable Beyond Gastroenterology, like other areas of pancreas. New nomenclature and treatment options for MASLD were insight into the practice of reviewed, medicine, medical training akin to a “guild”, we learned aboutistreatments of autoimmune liver diseases as well as the was I found out why his nickname where the field experienced take the During a talk on the management of acute emerging of endohepatology. “Skip” after he took me out on his novice underI their wing to pancreatitis, was struck bytrain how Dr. David Loren referenced poster that was sailboat which heakept docked at them in theby arts chosen at this very presented oneofoftheir the trainees meeting. This is learning andFelmar the Los Angeles harbor. Skip field. All GIatfellows, teaching its best including – we haveus an expert in the field who is at a meeting and as became a role model for me, and way back when, andis also discussing a lifetime learnerhad andtrainers researcher a poster that is being the mentor-mentee relationship was coaches that were staff presented at typically the meeting! mutually rewarding. gastroenterologists at our program. In themedical Generalschools Gastroenterology section, we learned about being a Many provide for highly impactful mentor gastroenterologist in the era of new loss medications. This is something mentor relationships, but this is lessweightAnother that I had was someone that chose that perhaps of usCertainly, should consider prescribing. You have a patient Iwith common in GImore training. myself. Dick Kozarek, MD was bad GERD and you know if they lose weight this will help them – should you(and
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1 President’s Message
1 President’s Message 3 Practice Management 3 Research Grants 4 GI Supergroups 4 Dear First Year Fellow
6 Venue Shopping 5 Colonoscopies 8 EMR or ESD? 8 GI Career Tracks 11 Roulette 9 Legal Corner
13 Jeopardy Winners 12 Dr. Harvey Lefton, In Memoriam 14 Annual Meeting Highlights 14 2024 Annual Meeting Photos 16 Board and Staff 16 Board and Staff