Here are three GI physicians featured in the news recently:
Hashem El-Serag, MD, became president of the American Gastroenterological Association, effective May 21.
Former American College of Gastroenterology President Douglas Rex, MD, and former American Gastroenterological Association President David Lieberman, MD, took the stage at Digestive Disease Week, May 18-21 in San Diego to debate the virtues of universally screening patients for colorectal cancer at age 45, per the American Cancer Society's guidelines.
Joseph C. Anderson, MD, of the Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine, and Carol A. Burke, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic spoke at the American Gastroenterological Association's symposium on physician burnout at Digestive Disease Week.