July 15, 2024

DIGESTIVE DISEASE NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Division of Digestive Disease
is excited to welcome our new GI Fellows!

2024 Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Match

Congratulations to our 2024 GI Fellowship graduates!

DIGESTIVE DISEASE EVENTS HAPPENING THIS MONTH

• Monday, July 15, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds | Zoom
• Friday, July 19, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom
• Monday, July 22, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds | Zoom
• Friday, July 26, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom
• Monday, July 29, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds| Zoom
• Friday, August 2, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom
• Monday, August 5, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds | Zoom
• Friday, August 9, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom
• Monday, August 12, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds | Zoom
• Friday, August 16, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom
• Friday, August 16, 4:30–8:30 | Faculty/Fellows Retreat | In-Person
• Monday, August 19, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds | Zoom
• Friday, August 23, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom
• Monday, August 26, 5–6 p.m. | GI Grand Rounds | Zoom
• Friday, August 30, 7–8 a.m. | Journal Club/Core Lectures | Zoom

For a full list of our Digestive Disease events and lectures, please visit our Division's Calendar of Events by clicking the button below.

DIGESTIVE DISEASE AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

Two Digestive Disease Trainees Receive the 2024 Summer Liver Academy Meeting (SLAM) Trainee Scholar Award

Congratulations to Hannah Hrncir (fourth year PhD candidate, BCDB Program, right) and Kendall Kanakanui (third year PhD candidate, GMB Program, left) who both received the 2024 Summer Liver Academy Meeting (SLAM) Trainee Scholar Award at the 2024 Summer Liver Academy meeting in Cape Coral, FL, June 16-20, 2024.

Four Digestive Disease Faculty Members were honored in
Atlanta Magazine's Top Doc for 2024!

Congratulations to Dr. Heba Iskandar, Dr. Julia Massaad, Dr. Meena Prasad, and Dr. Kavya Sebastian for making the list! 

BIRTH AND WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS

PUBLICATIONS FROM DIGESTIVE DISEASE FACULTY MEMBERS
April 1-June 30, 2024

• Coté, G. A., Elmunzer, B. J., Nitchie, H., Kwon, R. S., Willingham, F. F., Wani, S., Kushnir, V., Chak, A., Singh, V., Papachristou, G., Slivka, A., Freeman, M., Gaddam, S., Jamidar, P., Tarnasky, P., Varadarajulu, S., Foster, L. D., & Cotton, P. B. (2024). Sphincterotomy for Biliary Sphincter of Oddi Disorder and idiopathic Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis: THE RESPOND LONGITUDINAL COHORT. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2024.04.18.24305985. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.18.24305985
   
• Ates, I., Stuart, C., Rathbone, T., Barzi, M., He, G., Major, A. M., Shankar, V., Lyman, R. A., Angner, S. S., Mackay, T. F. C., Srinivasan, S., Farris, A. B., Bissig, K. D., & Cottle, R. N. (2024). Ex vivo gene editing and cell therapy for hereditary tyrosinemia type 1. Hepatology communications, 8(5), e0424. https://doi.org/10.1097/HC9.0000000000000424
   
• Hamilton, A. M., Blackmer-Raynolds, L., Li, Y., Kelly, S., Kebede, N., Williams, A., Chang, J., Garraway, S. M., Srinivasan, S., & Sampson, T. R. (2024). Diet-microbiome interactions promote enteric nervous system resilience following spinal cord injury. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.06.06.597793. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.06.597793
   
•  Banerjee, S., Lu, S., Jain, A., Wang, I., Tao, H., Srinivasan, S., Nemeth, E., & He, P. (2024). Targeting PKCa alleviates iron overload in diabetes and hemochromatosis through the inhibition of ferroportin. Blood, blood.2024023829. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024023829
   
• McConnell, B. B., Liang, Z., Xu, C., Han, Y., & Yun, C. C. (2024). LPA₅-Dependent signaling regulates regeneration of the intestinal epithelium following irradiation. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology, 326(6), G631–G642. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.00269.2023
   
• Lee, J., Gleizes, A., Takaesu, F., Webster, S. F., Hailstock, T., Barker, N., & Gracz, A. D. (2024). Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells are required for organoid survival after genotoxic injury. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.08.588400. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.08.588400
   
• Elmunzer, B. J., Palsson, O. S., Forbes, N., Zakaria, A., Davis, C., Canakis, A., Qayed, E., Bick, B., Pawa, S., Tierney, W. M., McLeod, C. G., Taylor, J., Patel, H., Mendelsohn, R. B., Bala, G., Sloan, I., Merchant, A. A., Smith, Z. L., Sendzischew Shane, M. A., Aroniadis, O. C., … Rome Foundation Research Institute and the North American Alliance for the Study of Digestive Manifestations of COVID-19 (2024). Prolonged Gastrointestinal Manifestations After Recovery From COVID-19. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 22(5), 1098–1107.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2023.11.009
   
• Singh, R. R., Thandassery, R. B., & Chawla, S. (2024). ACUTE VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IS COMMON FOLLOWING ACUTE NECROTIZING PANCREATITIS AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH WORSE CLINICAL OUTCOMES. Pancreas, 10.1097/MPA.0000000000002375. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/MPA.0000000000002375
   
• Malik, S., Tenorio, B. G., Moond, V., Dahiya, D. S., Vora, R., & Dbouk, N. (2024). Systematic review of machine learning models in predicting the risk of bleed/grade of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis: A comprehensive methodological analysis. Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology, 10.1111/jgh.16645. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgh.16645
   
• Salvador, R., Pandolfino, J. E., Costantini, M., Gyawali, C. P., Keller, J., Mittal, S., Roman, S., Savarino, E. V., Tatum, R., Tolone, S., Zerbib, F., Capovilla, G., Jain, A., Kathpalia, P., Provenzano, L., Yadlapati, R., & HRM and Foregut Surgery International Working group (2024). The Role of High-Resolution Manometry Prior to and Following Antireflux Surgery: The Padova Consensus. Annals of surgery, 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006297. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000006297
   
• Karvellas, C. J., Bajaj, J. S., Kamath, P. S., Napolitano, L., O'Leary, J. G., Solà, E., Subramanian, R., Wong, F., & Asrani, S. K. (2024). AASLD Practice Guidance on Acute-on-chronic liver failure and the management of critically ill patients with cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 79(6), 1463–1502. https://doi.org/10.1097/HEP.0000000000000671
   
• Gurakar, A., Conde Amiel, I., Ozturk, N. B., Artru, F., Selzner, N., Psoter, K. J., Dionne, J. C., Karvellas, C., Rajakumar, A., Saner, F., Subramanian, R. M., Sun, L. Y., Dhawan, A., & Coilly, A. (2024). An international, multicenter, survey-based analysis of practice and management of acute liver failure. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000402. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/LVT.0000000000000402
   
• Kokabi, N., Webster, L. A., Dabbous, H., Shah, A., Brandon, D., Galt, J., Xing, M., Villalobos, A., Davarpanahfakhr, A., Kappadath, S. C., & Schuster, D. M. (2024). Resin-Based 90 Y Tumor Dose as a Predictor of Duration of Response and Survival in Patients With Surgically Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma : A Prospective Single-Arm Study. Clinical nuclear medicine, 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005198. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0000000000005198
   
• Ross-Driscoll, K., Ayuk-Arrey, A. T., Lynch, R., McCullough, L. E., Roccaro, G., Nephew, L., Hundley, J., Rubin, R. A., & Patzer, R. (2024). Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant Referral and Evaluation among Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Georgia. Cancer research communications, 4(4), 1111–1119. https://doi.org/10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0541

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