Category: Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

Digital health company adds two GI specialists to medical advisory board

Digital digestive healthcare company Vivante has added two gastroenterology specialists to its medical advisory board.

How private GI practice could change in 10 years

Private practice is changing across specialties, and gastroenterology is no different.

Iterative Health, Allied Digestive Health partner for clinical trial recruitment

Iterative Health, a gastroenterology medtech company, teamed up with West Long Branch, N.J. -based Allied Digestive Health to help with patient recruitment for inflammatory bowel disease clinical trials.

Iterative Health to debut AI polyp detection tool for colonoscopies

Gastroenterology medicine company Iterative Health has partnered with software provider Provation to develop Skout, an artificial-intelligence polyp detection solution for use in colonoscopies. 

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy names associate editor

Thiruvengadam Muniraj, MD, has been named associate editor of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the official journal of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Former Vanderbilt GI director Dr. Raymond Burk dies at 80

Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s former director of the system’s division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, Raymond Burk, MD, died on May 1 at the age of 80, according to a May 3 report from the VUMC Reporter.

3 major gastroenterology moves in 9 days

Here are three big gastroenterology updates Becker’s has reported on since April 25:

23 celebrities with Crohn's disease

Crohn’s disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation of the tissues in the digestive tract, impacts over half a million Americans every year, including a number of well-known celebrities and figureheads. 

Gastro Care Partners taps news CEO

Denver-based Gastro Care Partners, a provider of gastroenterology services in Colorado and Wyo., has added David Pyle as its new CEO. 

GI Alliance strikes partnership with ASGE

Management services company GI Alliance has partnered with the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, becoming its first group member, to advance the practice of gastroenterology.