AGA Perspectives Archive
- 2011
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October/November
Inside this issue:
Concomitant Therapy for (Almost)
Everyone
Is There Still a Rationale for Monotherapy
after SONIC and SUCCESS?
Why Are Promising GI Technologies
Failing to Make it to Market?
The Role of Capsule Endoscopy in
GI Practice in 2012
New ACGME Program Requirements:
What You Need to Know
AGA Announces New Initiatives
to Strengthen Research Training
Controversies in Hepatocellular
Carcinoma Screening?
Does Racial Prejudice Influence Funding
Decisions by NIH Study Sections?
Let’s Talk About the Gastroenterology
Practice in Poland
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August/September
Inside this issue:
Long-Term PPI Therapy Risks: “Keep
Calm and Carry On”
Is It Time to Dismiss the PPI Safety
Concerns?
Pregnancy and IBD: How to Best
Communicate Risks and Benefits to
Patients and the Obstetrician
Increasing CRC Screening in Minorities
and Disadvantaged Populations: Our
Success Story
Staging Liver Fibrosis: Liver Biopsy,
Imaging and Biomarkers
ACOs — How Will They Affect
Patient Care?
Transplant Hepatology: Three or Four
Years of Training?
Volunteering After the Earthquake in
HaitiTalented and Diverse Leaders Working
for You
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June/July
Inside this issue:
The INR Is Accurate Enough to
Make Difficult Decisions
Utility of the INR:
An Incomplete Measure of Coagulation
What’s Up with the MELD Score?
Its Future, Exceptions and Additions
Lactose Intolerance:
A Personal Perspective
Developing Competency-Based
Education for Gastroenterology:
Starting with Transplant Hepatology
AGA to Help Members Navigate
Changing Health-Care Environment,
According to New President
The AGA Research Foundation:
New Name, Same Mission
Advancing the Science and Practice
of Gastroenterology Worldwide -
April/May
Inside this issue:
The Future of Endoscopy, Post-
Colonoscopy
Post-Colonoscopy Era Ahead?
Not Immediately
Communicating the Risks of IBD Therapy
to Patients
Let’s Break Through the Barriers to Trial
Recruitment and Retention
Lessons from the Southern Andes: A North
American’s Perspective of Health-Care
Challenges in Rural Peru
What Do You Think of Obamacare Now?
Paying for Quality: Why Working to
Improve Outcomes Really Pays Off
Gastroenterology Welcomes New Editor-
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February/March
Inside this issue:
When in Doubt, (Endoscopically) Cut it
Out
Ablative Therapy Is Best for Flat Dysplasia
The Vicious Cycle of Unrecognized Celiac
Disease
Recent Advances in the Genetics of IBS
The Future of Biomedical Research and
Your Involvement
Why Is Long-Term Government Funding
for Biomedical Research So Critical?
Understanding the Federal Regulatory
Process from a GI Perspective
In Their Own Words: Young Investigators
Learn About International Medical Care
What Does the AGA Institute Council Do?
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- 2010
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December/January
Inside this issue:
Riding the Open Access Endoscopy
Wave: Will your practice benefit from
open access, or is it too risky? Open
access endoscopy — what are the
benefits, and what are the risks and other
downsides?
Open Access Endoscopy Is Indispensable
Open Access: Risky Business
Perspectives on Gastroenterology Board
Certification: Meeting the Challenge to
Keep Current
Opportunistic Infections in IBD
Developing a GI Fellowship Mentoring
Program: Tips for Mentors and Mentees
Changes in Digestive Disease Week® for
2011
How Is the AGA Institute President
Selected?
Is the AGA Doing Enough in Global
Health?
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October/November
Inside this issue:
The reviews are in for mucosal healing’s
role as the primary endpoint in clinical
trials of Crohn’s disease
Mucosal Healing Should Become Primary
Endpoint
Mucosal Healing Is Not Ready To Be the
Primary Endpoint
How to Write a Scientific Abstract — a
Reviewer's Perspective
My Experience as a Gastroenterologist in
Industry
Is Symptom Relief an Adequate Treatment
Goal for GERD?
Societies Work Together on Crucial Issues
Affecting Gastroenterologists
AGA Policy Statement on Comparative
Effectiveness Research
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August/September
Inside this issue:
The Changing Paradigm of Endoscopy and
Pathology
Should We Diagnose and Discard Small Colonic
Polyps?Where Are All the Academicians That We
Recruited? Reflections of a Program Director
“A Woman’s Work is Never Done” — The Life
of a Woman Gastroenterology Trainee
Our Practices, Ourselves: How Do We Establish
a Personal Connection with Our Patients?
Geriatric GI: Are Older Patients Just Like Any
Adult? No ... and Yes
Hepatitis C in Minority Populations
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June/July
Inside this issue:
Where Should We Focus Our Training?
Endoscopy changed the field of gastroenterology,
but should the focus on training be technology or
cognitive based?
Best Test for CRC Screening?Screening Strategies for Minorities
Interacting with Industry
Solo Practice — Dying, or Alive and Well?
International Lab and Clinical Interests
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April/May
Inside this issue:
Quality of Care Versus Cost:
The Case for and Against Anesthesiologist-
Administered Propofol Sedation for Colonoscopy
AGA Digestive Health Outcomes Registry
The GI Physician’s Role in the Care of the Obese
New Duty Hour Regulations
The Mentor/Mentee Relationship
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February/March
Inside this issue:
Balancing the Options:
Should PPIs be used as front-line therapy for upper
GI symptoms?
The GI Physician and Health-Care Reform
IBD in African Americans
Should We Train Hepatologists as GIs, GIs
as Hepatologists, Both or Neither?
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
GI Program Directors’ Caucus
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- 2009
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December/January
Inside this issue:
Building a Better Outcome:
Are biologic agents the best treatment option for IBD
patients?Aspirin for CRC Management?
Review of Studies in Ulcer Bleeding
The Serrated Polyp Pathway to CRC
Human Genomics in Clinical Practice
Diarrhea-Associated Mortality
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