Here are eight gastroenterologists recently featured in the news:
Samiollah Gholam, MD, joined Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth Medical Group's internal medicine team.
El Paso, Texas-based The Hospitals of Providence added Aleksandr Reznichenko, MD, and Ruben Ramirez-Vega, MD, to its staff to lead the city's first liver transplant program.
A Manhattan jury found New York City-based NYU Langone Hospital colorectal surgeon Christian Hirsch, MD, guilty of negligence after a patient died from infection.
UC Los Angeles G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience Executive Director Emeran Mayer, MD, will join uBiome's medical advisory board.
Middletown, N.Y.-based Crystal Run Healthcare will now offer pediatric gastroenterology services after adding Sherin Daniel, MD.
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health recently added Scott Itzkowitz, DO, to its Novant Health Gastroenterology practice in Supply, N.C.
David A. Greenwald, MD, director of clinical gastroenterology and endoscopy at the New York City-based Mount Sinai Hospital and co-chair of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable's Public Awareness and Social Media Task Group detailed the successes seen in the roundtable's national colorectal cancer screening campaign.