Clinical Practice

Thank you making our sessions at the 42nd annual DDW® in Chicago, IL scientifically relevant and exciting! If you have specific feedback regarding speakers sponsored by Clinical Practice (CP) Section at DDW, please share your thoughts with us. We will do our best to consider your comments and concerns as we plan our program for next DDW 2012 in San Diego. We are now accepting volunteers for DDW 2012 abstract review and topic/speaker suggestions. Please visit the Volunteer and Feedback Form to get involved.

One of our section's abstracts, The Presence of Anesthesiology Professional Services During Colonoscopy is Associated with Increased Adenoma Detection Rates and Decreased Incidence of Colorectal Cancer: A Medical Outcomes Registry Analysis, was accepted for presentation at the very successful Best of DDW 2011 Plenary Session.

This year the CP section accepted the majority of the abstracts submitted (79 percent). The accepted abstracts were designated as oral or poster presentations and of distinction based on their ranking by our dedicated abstract reviewers. The table below shows the change from last year:

CP Abstract Selection

2010

2011

Total Abstracts submitted

365

396

Accepted Abstracts

274

313

Oral Presentations

43

56

Posters

231

257

Posters of Distinction

25

27

 

The CP section sponsored twelve Clinical Symposia, abstract based Research and Topic Fora, and one distinguished abstracts plenary. Our sessions were very well attended. The chart below outlines the sessions we sponsored at DDW 2011 and the number of people who attended the session. If you have feedback to share regarding any of these sessions please email Jennifer Gibson at AGA headquarters.

 

CP Sessions

 

Saturday, 5/7/2011

Duration

Attendance

Clinical Symposium:  Developing Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures for Clinical Trials in Gastroenterology

8:30 – 10 a.m.

90

Topic Forum:  Improving the Quality of Colonoscopy for CRC Screening

8:30 – 10 a.m.

62

Topic Forum:  Impact of Ethnicity and Economic Status on Access to Colon Cancer Screening

10:30 – 12 p.m.

901

Research Forum:  New Advances in GI Pharmacotherapy

10:30 – 12 p.m.

105

Clinical Symposium:  Risks of PPI Therapy in Clinical Practice

10:30 – 12 p.m.

620

Topic Forum:  Managing the IBS/Functional Dyspepsia Patient

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

273

Topic Forum:  Quality of Life and Economic Analysis of GI Disorders

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

67

Clinical Symposium:  Hepatitis C Protease Inhibitors - The Future is Almost Here

4 – 5:30 p.m.

222

Topic Forum:  What's New in IBD in 2011

4 – 5:30 p.m.

400

Sunday, 5/8/2011

Clinical Symposium:  Controversies in IBS: The Role of Bugs in IBS

8:30 – 10 a.m.

480

Topic Forum:  PPI: Efficacy and Safety

8:30 – 10 a.m.

207

Clinical Symposium:  Cirrhosis and its Complications-Challenges and Advances in Treatment

10:30 – 12 p.m.

315

Clinical Symposium:  Improving the Quality of CRC Screening with Colonoscopy

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

275

Clinical Symposium:  Evidence-based Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

4 – 5:30 p.m.

400

Monday, 5/9/2011

Clinical Symposium:  Current Controversies in CRC Screening

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

180

Clinical Practice Distinguished Abstracts Plenary

4 – 5:30 p.m.

400

Clinical Practice Section Townhall Meeting

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

unknown

Tuesday, 5/10/2011

Clinical Symposium:  Improving Outcomes in Acute Pancreatitis

8:30 – 10 a.m.

345

Clinical Symposium:  Advances in the Care of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

10:30 – 12 p.m.

625

Topic Forum:  Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Diseases

10:30 – 12 p.m.

32

Research Forum:  New Advances in Colorectal Cancer Screening

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

50

Clinical Symposium:  New Technology in Esophageal Function Testing: Important Breakthrough or Variation on the Theme?

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

100

Clinical Symposium:  Evidence-based Management of Severe Inpatient Ulcerative Colitis

4 – 5:30 p.m.

360

Research Forum:  GI Cancer Screening 2011

4 – 5:30 p.m.

30

 

Each June, CP section descriptors are reviewed to optimize scientific relevance and minimize overlapping topics with other AGA Institute Sections and to encourage both clinical research and basic science abstract submissions. The current list of abstract descriptors is as follows. (CP descriptors may change as we go forward to DDW 2012.) We would like to thank our abstract review Committee Chairs and members for generously sharing their expertise and time in order to ensure that the most novel and relevant developments in Clinical Practice were shared at DDW.

 

Descriptor Name

Abstracts Received

Abstract Review Chair

Abstract Reviewers

Health Services

23

Hashem El-Serag

Evan Dellon, Deborah Fisher

Practice Management/Quality Improvement in GI and Endoscopy

101

John Vargo

Joel Brill, Tim Nostrant, Irving Pike

Cost-effectiveness Analysis and Quality of Life

31

Joel Rubenstein

Chin Hur, Sameer Saini, Nathaniel Winstead

Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trials

34

Brian Feagan

Meenakshi Bewtra, Doug Corley, Yu-Xiao Yang

Research in Endoscopy/GI Education and Training

18

David Rubin

Mary Ann Huang, Andrew Muir, Deborah Proctor

Clinical Trials in GI Pharmacotherapy

13

Nicholas Talley

Mark Pimentel, Corey Siegel

Outcomes Research in Endoscopy

27

Glenn Eisen

Tim Gardner, Bruce Greenwald, Vivek Kaul, Ron Koretz

Epidemiology*

62

Doug Robertson

Ron Koretz, Uri Ladabaum, Sapna Syngal, Martijn van Oijen

Research in Health Disparities and Access to Care in GI and Hepatology (Based on Race/ethnicity, Age, Gender, Social Inequalities, Economic Status)*

42

Helen Shields

Faten Aberra, Frank Hamilton, Octavia Pickett-Blakely, Andrea Reid

Research in Clinical Practice Guidelines

21

Ronnie Fass

James Lewis, David Ransohoff, Nicholas Shaheen

Meta-analysis

16

Alex Ford

Darren Brenner, John Marshall, Nimish Vakil

 Note: Descriptors with an asterisk (*) are shared with at least one other Council Section.

Section leaders will review committee membership this summer for new abstract review committees to confirm the final composition for DDW 2012 committees.

If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for any of our abstract descriptors for DDW 2012, please fill out this form to volunteer. Please indicate the abstract descriptor for which you are interested in reviewing. You can also recommend new descriptors for abstracts. CP Section members interested in serving in this capacity are encouraged to contact us and volunteer to review abstracts. We are accepting volunteers through the end of July 2011. You can join the CP section at any time.

In addition, we encourage you to submit your invaluable ideas about the topics and invited speakers that you would like to hear at next year's DDW. The more specific you can be, the better (title, individual talks, speakers, learning objectives). Please fill out this form to submit your suggestions to the AGA Institute by July 1, 2011.

Members interested in participating in the various activities of the CP section should contact us at the addresses below. We are particularly interested in increasing participation by junior investigators/clinicians and international members at this time.

Thank you for your continuing strong support of the CP Section.

Sincerely,

Philip S. Schoenfeld, MD, MSEd, MSc (Epi) 

Chair, CP Section, AGA Institute Council

David A. Katzka, MD

Vice-Chair, CP Section, AGA Institute Council