Imaging & Advanced Technology

Dear Member of the Imaging and Advanced Technology Section and interested others:

We thank you for attending the 41st annual DDW® in New Orleans, LA and making it a scientifically relevant and exciting meeting! If you have specific feedback regarding speakers sponsored by the Imaging and Advanced Technology (IAT) 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 2011 in Chicago.

We would like to welcome the newly elected Imaging and Advanced Technology Section Vice-Chair, Marcia I. Canto, MD, MHS. And the newly elected Nominating Committee Members: Ellen M. Zimmermann, MD; Louis-Michel Wong Kee Song, MD, FRCP; Patrick R. Pfau, MD; and Anne Marie Joyce, MD. We would also like to thank Glenn M. Eisen, MD, MPH, AGAF for his invaluable service as Chair of the Imaging and Advanced Technology Section from 2008-2010. Thank you to all those who participated in the election and voted.

This year the IAT section had accepted the majority of the abstracts submitted. The accepted abstracts were designated as oral or poster presentations and of distinction based on their ranking by our dedicated abstract reviewers.

IAT Abstract Selection 2010
Total Abstracts submitted 124
Accepted Abstracts 100
Oral Presentations 17
Posters 83
Posters of Distinction 8

IAT sponsored Clinical Symposia, and abstract based Research Fora.

IAT Sessions
Monday, May 3, 2010 Attendance
Clinical Symposium: Small Bowel Imaging - The Final Frontier Conquered? 2:15pm-3:45pm 225
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Clinical Symposium: Optical Biopsy - Can/Will This Ever Replace the Pathologist? 8:30am-10:00am 115
Clinical Symposium: GI Neuroendocrine Tumors 2:15pm-3:45pm 95
Research Forum: Advances in Colonic Imaging 2:15pm-3:45pm 80
Imaging and Advanced Technology Distinguished Abstract Plenary 4:00pm-5:30pm 45
Imaging and Advanced Technology Section Business Meeting 5:30pm-6:30pm unknown
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Clinical Symposium: Colon Cancer Screening/Surveillance 2010 - Can Advanced Endoscopic Techniques Lead to Improved Outcomes? 8:30am-10:00am 275
Clinical Symposium: Integrating Endoscopic Advances Into Your Practice 10:30am-12:00pm 70
Research Forum: Imaging advances in Barrett's esophagus 2:15pm-3:45pm 65

Each June, IAT 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. (IAT descriptors may change as we go forward to DDW 2011.) 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 Imaging & Technology were shared at DDW.

Descriptor Name Abstracts Received Abstract Review Chair Abstract Reviewers
Applied Diagnostics and Therapeutics 28 Tim Kinney Satish Singh, Paul Fockens, Norman Nishioka
Natural Orifice Trans-Luminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) 3 Herbert Wolfsen John A. Evans, Priscilla Magno, Nalini M. Guda
Enhanced Endoscopic Imaging Including Molecular Imaging; Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Imaging; and Optical Coherence Tomography 23 Amit Rastogi Paul Fockens, Norman Nishioka, Jacques Bergman
Confocal Endoscopy 13 Sharmila Anandasabathy Alexander Meining, Carlos Robles-Medranda, Kerry Dunbar
Endoscopic Ultrasound/MRI 16 John Saltzman Jeff Lee, Tim Kinney, Carlos Robles-Medranda
Cross-Sectional Imaging including Virtual Colonography 13 Herbert Wolfsen Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, Virender Sharma, Cuong Nguyen
Wireless/Capsule Imaging (Cross-section descriptor) 28 Virender Sharma Waqar Qureshi, Nalini M. Guda, Benjamin Krevsky
Metabolism, Portal Hypertension and Vascular Diseases of the Liver(Cross-section descriptor) 0 Claudia Zein Preeti Reshamwala, Louis Korman, John Baillie

Section leaders will review committee membership this summer for new abstract review committees to confirm the final composition for DDW 2011 committees.

IAT section members interested in serving in this capacity are encouraged to contact us and volunteer to review abstracts. You can join the IAT section at any time.

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 forward your suggestions to us (e-mail addresses below, and please copy John Whiton, AGA Institute no later than July 1.

Members interested in participating in the various activities of the 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.

If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for any of our abstract descriptors, please let us know. Please cite the abstract descriptor for which you would be interested in reviewing. Please recommend any new descriptors for abstracts.

We invite your participation and suggestions, especially concerning topics for DDW 2011 that will be held in Chicago, IL.

Thank you for your continuing strong support of the Imaging and Advanced Technology Section.

Sincerely,

William R. Brugge, MD, AGAF
Chair, IAT Section, AGA Institute Council

Marcia I. Canto, MD, MHS
Vice-Chair, IAT Section, AGA Institute Council