Our next GI Journal Club will be Tuesday, November 25, 2014.

Hassan Dakik will present the advanced therapeutics/imaging paper: Mortality, cancer, and comorbidities associated with chronic pancreatitis: a Danish nationwide matched-cohort study. Bang UC et al. Gastroenterology. 146: 989. 2014. PMID 24389306.

Rey Quevedo will present the biliary/pancreatic article. Please note that this article also has an education focus for those of you who are interested in medical education and training. Competence development in ERCP: the learning curve of novice trainees. Ekkelenkamp VE et al. Endoscopy. 46: 949-955. 2014. PMID 25208031.

For the hot topic, Josh Spaete has selected the hot-off-the-presses NEJM paper (out today in print): Early vs on-demand nasogastric tube feeding in acute pancreatitis by OJ Bakker et al. NEJM. 371: 1983-1993. 2014. PMID 25409371.

Please plan on joining us on Tuesday evening. Thanks.

Our next GI journal club meeting will be held on Tuesday, Oct 28^th at 5PM in the Tyor Confernece room.

Scharles Konadu will present the colon cancer screening paper by Citronberg et al : A prospective study of the effect of bowel movement frequency, constipation, and laxative use on colorectal  cancer risk. Am J Gastroenterol. 109: 1640-9. 2014. PMID 25223576.

Ivan Harnden will present the esophageal paper by Thrift et al. Obesity and risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma and BE: A Mendelian randomization study. JNCI. Vol 106. PMID 25269698.

Majed El Zouhari will present the hot hopic by Masclee et al: Risk of Upper GI Bleeding From Different Drug Combinations. Gastroenterology. 147: 784-792. 2014. PMID 24937265.

Please do plan on joining us for GI journal club.