Our next GI journal club will be held on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 at 5PM in the Tyor Conference Room.

Gabe Mansouraty will present a paper from Am J Gastroenterology by Witteman et al. Randomized controlled trial of transoral incsionless fundoplication vs. proton pump inhibitors for treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. 2015. PMID 25823768.

Jeff Basile will present a recent paper by Doug Rex published in GIE: Narrow-band imaging versus white light for the detection of proximal colon serrated lesions: a randomized controlled trial. 2015. PMID 25952085.

Congratulations to all our fellows involved in the recent GI baby-boom. Ivan is out on paternity leave, so I’ll present two thematic colorectal cancer screening papers:

Dolan et al in J Gen Int Med: The effectiveness of a physician-only and physician-patient intervention on colorectal cancer screening discussion s between providers and African American and Latino patients. 2015. PMID 25986137.

May et al in Am J Gastro: Racial Minorities are more likely than whites to report lack of provider recommendation for colon cancer screening. Am J Gastro. 2015. PMID 25964227.

Enjoy the beautiful holiday weekend and remember to find a quite moment to read this great group of papers in preparation for journal club. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday.

-Katie

Our next GI Journal Club will be held next week on Tuesday, April 28^th. We are piloting a combined research-conference/journal club double-header educational evening. I’ll be seeking feedback on the combined format.

We’ll begin with research conference at 5PM. Ajay Gulati, a pediatric gastroenterologist at UNC, will present some of his work in inflammatory bowel disease. Ajay’s talk is entitled: “Paneth’s Disease.” Then, we’ll have GI journal club (starting at about 6PM). A light dinner will be served.

We have a great set of articles this month for journal club.

Yuval will present an IBD paper by Moayyedi et al from Gastroenterology: Fecal Microbiota Transplantion in Patients with Active Ulcerative Colitis in a Randomized, Controlled Trial. 2015. PMID 25857665.

Vaishali will present a Hepatology paper by Loomba et al. Ezetimibe for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: Assesment by novel magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance elastrography in a randomized trial (MOZART trial). 2015. PMID 25482832.

Josh will present the hot topic by Sachar et al. JAMA Internal Medicine. Intermittent vs continuous proton pump inhibitor therapy for high-risk bleeding ulcers: a systemic review and meta-analysis. 2014. PMID 25201154.

Please plan on joining us for conference on April 28th.