The faculty, fellows, residents, and staff from UT Southwestern Medical Center's Digestive and Liver Diseases department will be prominently featured at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), taking place from May 18 to 21 in Washington, D.C. Alongside our colleagues, we will participate in over 50 lectures and poster sessions throughout the event.
Lectures and Poster Sessions
Saturday, May 18
Title: Sp31: DEBATES ON FIRST STEP IN GERD MANAGEMENT: LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Kerry Brandt Dunbar, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 8:45 am - 9:00 am | 147AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp182: NEW INSIGHTS UNDERLYING INFLAMMATION AND REGULATION OF ATP7B (WILSON PROTEIN ATPASE)
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Ezra Burstein, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 110:30 am - 11:00 am | 01 - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sa2069: MECKEL’S DIVERTICULUM: A CHALLENGING DIAGNOSIS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Kathryn Kaihlanen
UTSW Co-Author: Isabel Rojas, M.D.
Claudia Phen, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Title: Sa1178: DEVELOPMENT OF A MICROBIOME- AND METABOLITE-BASED PREDICTION TOOL FOR COLONIC POLYPOSIS WITH AND WITHOUT A KNOWN GENETIC DRIVER
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Ashutosh Shukla, PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Suzette Palmer, M.S., Xiaowei Zhan, PH.D., Josephine Ni, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1178/Session Number: 6065
Title: Sa1550: PATIENT PORTAL USE IN CIRRHOSIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH PATIENT AGE AND HEPATIC DECOMPENSATION
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: John Deng, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Beverly Kyalwazi, M.D., Jonathan Melendez-Torres, M.D., Donglu Xie, Programmer/Architect Lead, Amit Singal, M.D., Jeremy Louissaint, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1550/Session Number: 6195
Title: Sa1549: PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS VIEW AMBULATORY HCC SCREENING RESULTS MORE RAPIDLY THAN PROVIDERS, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER AND WHITE PATIENTS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Beverly Kyalwazi, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Jonathan Melendez-Torres, M.D., John Deng, M.D., Robert Turer, M.D., Timothy Hogan, PH.D., Donglu Xie, Programmer/Architect Lead, Sruthi Yekkaluri, Pharm.D., Amit Singal, M.D., Jeremy Louissaint, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1549/Session Number: 6195 (Hall A, Poster Hall (Walter E. Washington Convention Center)
Title: Sa1151: SCREENING COLONOSCOPY IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED OVERALL AND CANCER-SPECIFIC MORTALITY
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Stuart Po-Hong Liu, M.D., PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Amit Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1151/Session Number: 6055
Title: Sa1153: INCOMPLETE COLONOSCOPY: PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN 4 HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Stuart Po-Hong Liu, M.D., PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Rasmi Nair, PH.D., Caitlin C Murphy, M.D., Celette Skinner, PH.D., Stuart Po-Hong Liu, M.D., PH.D.,
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1153/Session Number: 6055
Title: 186: IMPACT OF CENSUS TRACT-BASED SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON TRENDS OF COLORECTAL CANCER INCIDENCE DIFFERED BY RACE AND ETHNICITY
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Gloria Lin, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Stuart Po-Hong Liu, David Hein, M.S., Nina Sanford, M.D., Amit Singal, M.D.,
Time and Location: 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | 152AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: CAREER PLANNING FOR APPs (Hep Associations Committee)
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Jordan Mayberry, M.P.A.S., PA-C (Moderator)
Time and Location: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | 202A - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Sunday, May 19
Title: Su1507: ASSOCIATIONS WITH IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AMONG PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEART FAILURE UNDERGOING ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY: A NATIONWIDE ANALYSIS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Ahmad Anouti, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Thomas Cotter, M.D., William Lee, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1507/Session Number: 7190
Title: Su1013: IMPACT OF LIVING WITH AN ILEAL-POUCH ANAL ANASTOMOSIS: NETNOGRAPHY OFINDIVIDUALS WITH DIVERSE SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS AND PRACTICES
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Darine Daher, M.D
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1013/Session Number: 7000
Title: Su1170: EXAM QUALITY OF LIVER ULTRASOUND AND DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MRI AND IMPACT ON EARLY-STAGE HCC DETECTION IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Karim Seif El Dahan, PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Takeshi Yokoo, M.D., David Fetzer, M.D., Darine Daher, M.D., Nicole Rich, M.D., Amit Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1170/Session Number: 7035
Title: Su1734: UPREGULATED TYPE I INTERFERON RESPONSE IS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE INFLAMMATION IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND CAUSES INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DEXTRAN SULFATE SODIUM-INDUCED COLITIS IN MICE
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Jianyi Yin, M.D. PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Ezra Burstein, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1734/Session Number: 7260
Title: Su1848: OUTCOMES FOLLOWING ELECTIVE SWITCHING OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE THERAPIES TO VEDOLIZUMAB OR USTEKINUMAB
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Cinthana Kandasamy, D.PM.
UTSW Co-Author: Jianyi Yin, M.D. PH.D., Ezra Burstein, M.D., PH.D., Moheb Boktor, M.D., David Fudman, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1848/Session Number: 7280
Title: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN FIBROTIC TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT, IMMUNE RESPONSE AND METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING IN HEPATOBILIARY NEOPLASIA
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Yujin Hoshida, M.D., PH.D. (Moderator)
Time and Location: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | 202A - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: 471: IDENTIFYING NOVEL RISK ALLELES FOR CELIAC DISEASE IN 'ALL OF US'
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Hemanth Karnati, B.S.
UTSW Co-Author: Michele Alkalay, M.D., Ioana Smith, M.D., Ezra Burstein, M.D., PH.D., Patrick Green, M.D., Xiao-Fei Kong, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | 140 AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Monday, May 20
Title: Sp692: PITFALLS IN GERD DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Kerry Brandt Dunbar, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 6:30 am - 7:45 am | 140 AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Mo2055: CLINICAL UTILITY OF SMALL BOWEL VIDEO CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY (VCE) IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Kathryn Kaihlanen
UTSW Co-Author: Isabel Rojas, M.D., Claudia Phen, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 2055/Session Number: 8415
Title: Mo2062: PEDIATRIC RECTAL SUCTION BIOPSY: A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE AND REPORTED COMPLICATIONS AT A SINGLE PEDIATRIC CENTER
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Geoffrey Daves, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Nicholas Norris, M.D., Ashley Polachek, M.D., Wenjing Zong, M.D., David Troendle, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 2062/ Session Number: 8420
Title: Mo1071: CONFIDENCE IN ENTERAL ACCESS MANAGEMENT AMONG IM, EM, AND GI TRAINEES
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Mausam Patel, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Hayley Rogers, M.D., Chinemerem Okwara, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1071/Session Number: 8020
Title: Mo1281: COMPARISON OF LOCAL INVESTIGATOR-REPORTED VS CENTRALLY ADJUDICATED LOS ANGELES GRADES OF EROSIVE ESOPHAGITIS IN PATIENTS SCREENED FOR PARTICIPATION IN A RANDOMIZED TRIAL
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Stuart Spechler, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1281/Session Number: 8110
Title: Sp872: HOW TO KNOW WHEN IS DOWNSTAGING HCC GOOD ENOUGH TO MEET CRITERIA LIVER TRANSPLANT (FOR THE GENERAL GI PROVIDER)?
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Thomas Archibald Kerr, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | 202B - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: CLINICAL PRACTICE WORKSHOP: ETHICAL DISCUSSIONS IN HEPATOLOGY
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Thomas Archibald Kerr, M.D., PH.D. (Moderator)
Time and Location: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | 202B - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp873: CURRENT MEDICATION AND DIAGNOSTIC CHOICES FOR AUTOIMMUNE LIVER DISEASES
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Marlyn Mayo, M.D.
Time and Location: 2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | 202B – Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp875: LIVER RELATED COMPLICATIONS OF TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Marlyn Mayo, M.D.
Time and Location: 2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | 202B – Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp871: ADDRESSING ACCESS AND HEALTH DISPARITIES FOR MASLD ACROSS THE CLINICAL AND RESEARCH SPECTRUM
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Nicole Rich, M.D.
Time and Location: 3:12 pm - 3:30 pm | 154AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: STUMP THE STARS (LUMENAL): CAN ASHLEY FAULX PASS HER BOARDS?
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Kerry Brandt Dunbar, M.D., PH.D. (Moderator)
Time and Location: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Ballroom C - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp969A: STUMP THE STARS (LUMENAL) FELLOWS
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: James D. Haddad, M.D.
Time and Location: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, May 21
Title: PEDIATRIC ENDOSCOPY INSIGHTS AND INNOVATION
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: David M. Troendle, M.D.
Time and Location: 8:00 am - 9:30 am | 145A - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp1024: COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Indira Bhavsar-Burke, M.D.
Time and Location: 8:00 am - 9:30 am | 151B - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp1012: COMORBIDITY MANAGEMENT: HYPERLIPIDEMIA AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK MANAGEMENT
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Jordan Mayberry, M.P.A.S., PA-C
Time and Location: 8:30 am – 8:45 am | 201 - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp1016: OBESITY MANAGEMENT IN PEDIATRIC POPULATION
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Sarah Barlow, M.D.
Time and Location: 8:40 am - 9:00 am | 147AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Sp1018: PANEL DISCUSSION
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Sarah Barlow, M.D.
Time and Location: 9:20 am - 9:30 am | 147AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: 1052: PAAM FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA RISK STRATIFICATION IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS: MULTICENTER PHASE 3 BIOMARKER VALIDATION STUDIES IN THE U.S.
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Naoto Fujiwara, M.D., PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Amit Singal, M.D., Yujin Hoshida, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 11:15 am - 11:30 am | 201 – Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: 1090: RISK PREDICTION FOR COLORECTAL CANCER USING QUANTITATIVE FECAL IMMUNOCHEMICAL TEST RESULTS — A STATISTICAL SOLUTION TO THE COLONOSCOPY CAPACITY ISSUE
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Emily Berry, PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Amit Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 11:15 am - 11:30 am | 146AB - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: Tu1131: PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS ASSOICATED WITH NON-COMPLIANCE TO FIT SCREENING AND DIAGNOSTIC COLONOSCOPY
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Emily Berry, PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Sarah Zamarripa, D.O., Stacie Miller, MSN, MPH, RN, Alyssa Patterson, MPH, CPH, Keith Argenbright, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 1131/Session Number: 9080
Title: Tu2019: DELTA RADIOMIC FEATURES PREDICT RESECTION MARGIN STATUS AND OVERALL SURVIVAL IN NEOADJUVANT-TREATED PANCREATIC CANCER PATIENTS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Lily Catherine Goodman, B.S.
UTSW Co-Author: Alessandro Bifolco, M.D., Kai Wang, M.S., John Karalis, M.D., Ahmed Elamir, M.D., Megan Wachsmann, M.D., Nafeesah Fatimah, M.D., Giada Pontecorvi, PH.D., Patricio Polanco, M.D., Adam Yopp, M.D., Ravi Kaza, M.D., Ivan Pedrosa, M.D., PH.D., Herbert Zeh, M.D., Jing Wang, PH.D., Todd Aguilera, M.D., PH.D., Matteo Ligorio, M.D., PH.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | 2019/Session Number: 9480
Title: Tu1544: CLINICAL BENEFITS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA SURVEILLANCE IN A CONTEMPORARY COHORT OF AT-RISK PATIENTS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Darine, Daher, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Karim Seif El Dahan, PH.D., Nicole Rich, M.D., Vincent Merrill, PH.D., Amit Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 1544/Session Number: 9290
Title: IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Sumana Reddy, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 1271/Session Number: 9195
Title: CARCINOMA AMONGST SUBCENTIMETER NODULES ON SURVEILLANCE ULTRASOUND: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Eden Koo, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Karim Seif El Dahan, PH.D., Darine Daher, M.D., Amit Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 1559/Session Number: 9290
Title: Tu1444: IMPACT OF A PANCREATIC CANCER PREVENTION PROGRAM: A LARGE SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Amudhan Kannan, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Tarek Sawas, M.D., Anna Tavakkoli, M.D., Hendrikus Vanderveldt, M.D., Samantha Foley, M.P.A.S., PA-C, Daniel Ellis, M.D., Herbert Zeh, M.D., John Mansour, M.D., Gaurav Khatri, M.D., Nisa Kubiliun, M.D., Patricio Polanco, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 1444/Session Number: 9255
Title: Tu1534: MULTICENTER COMPARISON OF ABBREVIATED MRI VERSUS ULTRASOUND FOR DETECTING EARLY-STAGE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Karim Seif El Dahan, PH.D
UTSW Co-Author: Takeshi Yokoo, M.D., PH.D., David Fetzer, M.D., Darine Daher, M.D., Nicole Rich, M.D., Amit Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 1534/Session Number: 9290
Title: Tu1895: COMPARATIVE GENOMICS REVEALS GENTAMICIN RESISTANCE AMONG ADHERENT INVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI ASSOCIATED WITH CROHN'S DISEASE
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Jungyeon Kim, PH.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Lisa Kinch, PH.D., Sydney Field, B.S., Kevin Forsberg, PH.D., Tamia Harris-Tryon, M.D., PH.D., Kim Orth, PH.D., Qian Cong, PH.D., Josephine Ni, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 1895/Session Number: 9405
Title: Tu2049: PEDIATRIC ACUTE PANCREATITIS FLUID MANAGEMENT: UNDER-RESUSCITATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER RATES OF PROGRESSION TO SEVERE ACUTE PANCREATITIS OUTCOMES
Type: Poster
UTSW Presenter: Nicholas Norris, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 2049/Session Number: 9500
Title: Sp1130: NEW APPROACHES TO HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA TREATMENT br /> Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Amit G. Singal, M.D.
Time and Location: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | 101 - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: 1169: CLINICAL UTILITY OF NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING FOR DIFFERENTIATING MAIN-DUCT INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASM AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS AS ETIOLOGY OF PANCREATIC DUCT DILATION
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Alex R. Jones, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Patricio Polanco, M.D., Hendrikus Vanderveldt, M.D., Gaurav Khatri, M.D., John Mansour, M.D., Nisa Kubiliun, M.D., Tarek Sawas, M.D.
Time and Location: 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | 145B - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: 1171: COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PANCREATIC CYST SURVEILLANCE DECREASED AFTER RISK-STRATIFICATION WITH NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING
Type: Poster Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Alex R. Jones, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: Patricio Polanco, M.D., Hendrikus Vanderveldt, M.D., Gaurav Khatri, M.D., John Mansour, M.D., Nisa Kubiliun, M.D., Tarek Sawas, M.D.
Time and Location: 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | 145B - Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Title: 1154: UTILITY AND UTILIZATION OF TRANSABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH ACUTE RECURRENT OR CHRONIC PANCREATITIS
Type: Lecture
UTSW Presenter: Nicholas Norris, M.D.
UTSW Co-Author: David Troendle, M.D., Megha Mehta, M.D.
Time and Location: 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | Ballroom A - Walter E. Washington Convention Center