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Imaging and Advanced Technology

Section Chair — Glenn M. Eisen, MD, MPH, AGAF
Vice Chair — William R. Brugge, MD, AGAF

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Dear Member of the Imaging and Advanced Technology Section:

Thank you for making our sessions at the 40th annual DDW® in Chicago, IL scientifically relevant and exciting!  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 DDW 2010 in New Orleans.

This year the IAT section was pleased to accept 80 percent of the abstracts submitted for review.  The accepted abstracts were designated as oral or poster presentations based on their ranking by our dedicated abstract reviewers. 

IAT  ABSTRACT SELECTION	2009
Total Abstracts submitted	105
Accepted Abstracts	84
Oral Presentations	16
Posters	68
• Posters of Distinction	12

IAT sponsored Clinical Symposia, and abstract based Research Fora.  Most of these events were very well attended, as outlined below:  

IAT SESSIONS	ATTENDEES
Clinical Symposia:
Advances in NOTES	100
Imaging Advances for GI Disease	400
Imaging the Small Bowel: Now That we Can Do it - What Should we Use?	382
Endoscopic Optical Biopsy Techniques	120
Colorectal Cancer Screening - Are we Endoscopists, Radiologists or Bystanders?	250
Research Fora:
Image-Based Detection of Malignancy	45
Novel Imaging for Clinical Applications	55

Very soon the IAT section descriptors will be reviewed to minimize overlapping topics with other AGA Institute Sections and to encourage both clinical research and basic science abstract submissions.  The current list of abstract review descriptors is as follows. (IAT descriptors may change slightly as we go forward to DDW 2010.)  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 and Advanced Technology were shared at DDW.   

 

DESCRIPTOR NAME	ABSTRACTS RECEIVED	ABSTRACT REVIEW CHAIR	CO-CHAIR	ABSTRACT REVIEWER MEMBERS
Applied Diagnostics and Therapeutics	35	Herbert Wolfsen	Brian Jacobson	Tim Kinney, Satish Singh, Paul Fockens, Norman Nishioka
Natural Orifice Trans-Luminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)	3	Herbert Wolfsen		Priscilla Magno, Nalini M. Guda, John A. Evans
Enhanced Endoscopic Imaging Including Molecular Imaging; Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Imaging; and Optical Coherence Tomography	15	Herbert Wolfsen	Louis Y. Korman	Paul Fockens, Norman Nishioka, Jacques Bergman
Confocal Endoscopy	12	Herbert Wolfsen		Norman Nishioka, Carlos Robles-Medranda, Kenneth Wang
Endoscopic Ultrasound/MRI	19	Sarah Rodriguez	Cuong Nguyen	Tim Kinney, Nalini M. Guda, Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, Carlos Robles-Medranda, Betsy Rodriguez
Cross-Sectional Imaging including Virtual Colonography	9	Herbert Wolfsen	Mohamad A. Eloubeidi	Virender Sharma, Cuong Nguyen
Wireless/Capsule Imaging	12	Herbert Wolfsen	Virender Sharma	Waqar Qureshi, Nalini M. Guda, Benjamin Krevsky, Ann Marie Joyce
TOTAL ABSTRACTS RECEIVED:	105

Section leaders will review committee membership this summer for abstract review committees to confirm the final composition for DDW 2010 committees. 

IAT section members interested in serving in this capacity are encouraged to contact us and volunteer to review abstracts. 

Please 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, at jwhiton@gastro.org) by July 6, 2009.

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.

Additionally, please note that elections for the 2010-2012 IAT Vice-Chair and Nomination Committee Members will take place in January and February 2010.  More information regarding elections will be distributed closer to this date.  Nominees will be solicited in January to stand for election in February.

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

Sincerely,

Glenn M. Eisen, MD, MPH, AGAF
Chair, IAT Section, AGA Institute Council
eiseng@chsu.edu

William R. Brugge, MD, AGAF
Vice-Chair, IAT Section, AGA Institute Council
wbrugge@partners.org