The next GI journal club will be this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 5PM in the Tyor Conference Room.

Krista Edelman will present the advanced therapeutics/imaging paper from GIE by Huang et al. EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement with a simple novel device: a human pilot study. 2017. PMID 27693644.

Gabriel Mansouraty will present the transplant hepatology paper by Sood et al. A Novel Immune Function Biomarker Identifies Patients at Risk of Clinical Events Early Following Liver Transplantation from the journal Liver Transplantation. 2017. PMID 28133934.

Rey Quevedo will present the hot topic from Gastroenterology by Nicolucci et al. Prebiotic Reduces Body Fat and Alters Intestinal Microbiota in Children with Overweight or Obesity. 2017. PMID 28596023.

Please do plan to join us for our final journal club of the academic year.

Please plan to join us for GI journal club this Tuesday, May 23^rd in the Tyor Conference Room.

Paul will present the IBD paper by Jorgensen et al from the Lancet: Switching from originator infliximab to biosimilar CT-P13 compared with maintained treatment with originator infliximab (NOR-SWITCH): a 52-week, randomized, double-blind, non-inferiority trial. PMID 28502609

Ahmad will present a pancreas paper by He et al as published in the J Gastroenterology and Hepatology. A comparison of multi-factor scoring systems and single serum markers for the early prediction of the severity of acute pancreatitis. PMID 28419583

Iris will present the hot topic by Liu et al from Gastroenterology: High Incidence of Celiac Disease in a Long-term Study of Adolescents with Susceptibility Genotypes. PMID: 28188747.