Category: GI & Endoscopy

NIH defunds ‘critically important’ GI program

The National Institutes of Health has withdrawn renewal grant applications for the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers.  Patient advocacy organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, have called on Congress and the Rare Disease Congressional Caucus to reinstate funding, according to an April 21 press release.  “The withdrawal of the five-year […]

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GI Partners of Illinois links with Acucare

Chicago-based GI Partners of Illinois has announced a partnership with Acucare, an AI-driven technology platform that transforms EHR data to actionable insights, according to an April 22 news release from the organization.  With this new partnership, GI Partners of Illinois becomes the only independent gastroenterology group in the state using Acucare’s platform. The AI technology […]

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UMass Chan Medical School debuts GI procedure

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Chan Medical School has become the first medical center to complete a procedure using the WallFlex Biliary PLUS RX Fully Covered Stent.  The procedure was performed by assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at UMass Chan, Neil Marya, MD, who was assisted by his GI team, according to an […]

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California gastroenterologist put on probation for medical error that led to patient death

A Bakersfield, Calif.-based gastroenterologist has been placed on five years of probation for mistakenly administering treatment intended for another patient to a 67-year-old COVID-19 patient, resulting in the patient’s death, Fox 8 News reported April 17.  What happened? What’s next?

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GI Alliance, Iterative Health partner

GI Alliance has struck a strategic partnership with healthcare technology company Iterative Health. The partnership aims to expand access to clinical trials for GI patients, according to an April 23 press release.  It will open up GI Alliance’s clinical research sites to Iterative Health’s site network. The network will add 21 active GI Alliance research […]

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AGA awards $2.4M in GI funding

The American Gastroenterological Association has awarded $2.4 million in research grants to 74 recipients.  In addition, the AGA is awarding 10 pilot grants totaling $400,000 for 2026, according to an April 22 news release.  The grants were awarded through the AGA Research Foundation Awards Program, which was first established in 1984.  “As we face uncertainty […]

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5 gastroenterologists in the headlines 

1. Hafiz Khan, MD, is serving as medical director of AdvantHealth Tampa’s (Fla.) Center for Interventional Endoscopy, the only interventional endoscopy center in the Tampa Bay region.  2. The American Gastroenterological Association elected Richard Peek, MD, as vice president in March. Dr. Peek is currently director of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at […]

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Pinnacle Gastroenterology to open Arkansas clinic

Pinnacle Gastroenterology is expected to open a multi-physician gastroenterology practice in a building that housed the now-shuttered Arkansas Diagnostic Center of Little Rock, Arkansas Business reported April 21.  The new clinic is unaffiliated with the gastroenterologist who operated the Diagnostic Center of Little Rock, according to the report. The practice shuttered after the state medical […]

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Vanderbilt gastroenterologist dies in bicycle accident

Former Nashville-based Vanderbilt University gastroenterologist Terrence Allen Smith, MD, died at VUMC on April 7 following a bicycle accident, according to an April 18 report from the Williamson Herald. Dr. Smith, 68, was a resident of Brentwood, Tenn., and a former U.S. Army flight surgeon. He first joined Vanderbilt in 2003 as an assistant professor […]

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Is GI pay outpacing inflation?

Despite gastroenterologist pay falling by 3% between 2024 and 2025, overall, the specialty has seen a 33.78% pay hike since 2015. From 2015 to 2025, the inflation rate in the U.S. has risen by 1.7%, according to data from the U.S. Inflation Calculator. Throughout that period, there have been several spikes, reaching a high of […]

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