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Pancreatic Disorders

Chair — Rodger A. Liddle, MD
Vice Chair — Christopher E. Forsmark, MD, AGAF

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Dear Member of the Pancreatic Disorders 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 Pancreatic Disorders (PAN) 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.

I would particularly like to thank our immediate past Chair, Randall K. Pearson, for his dedicated leadership of the section.  Our section held elections for the leadership positions of Vice-Chair and Nominating Committee Members and the results are as follows:

Vice-Chair:  Chris E. Forsmark, MD  
2009-2011 Nominating Committee Members:  Randall Brand, MD; Suresh T. Chari, MD; Girish Mishra, MD, MS; and Massimo Raimondo, MD.

Our new Vice-Chair, Chris E. Forsmark, MD will serve a two-year term followed by two additional years as Section Chair.  Congratulations to all our newly elected members!  

This year the PAN section was pleased to accept 77% 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. 

PAN  ABSTRACT SELECTION	2009
Total Abstracts submitted	197
Accepted Abstracts	153
Oral Presentations	30
Posters	123
• Posters of Distinction	15

PAN sponsored Clinical, Translational, and Research Symposia, and abstract based Research and Topic Fora, as well as one Distinguished Abstract Plenary and one SOA Lecture.  All of these events were very well attended, as outlined below:  

PAN SESSIONS	ATTENDEES
Distinguished Abstracts Plenary:
Clinical Acute Pancreatitis	200
SOA Lecture:
Genomic Analysis of Pancreatic Cancer	55
Clinical Symposia:
Controversies in Clinical Pancreatology: An Interactive, Case Based Debate	80
Pancreatic Cysts: Management of Branch Duct IPMN	400
Translational Symposium:
Effects of Nutrients on the Pancreas	Data not available
Research Symposium:
Altering Gene Expression in the Pancreas	85
Topic Forum:
Pancreatic Physiology and Pathobiology	50
Research Fora:
Clinical Chronic Pancreatitis	200
Experimental Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis	80
Clinical Pancreatic Neoplasia	57

Very soon the PAN 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. (PAN 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 Pancreatic Disorders were shared at DDW.   

DESCRIPTOR NAME	ABSTRACTS RECEIVED	ABSTRACT REVIEW CHAIR	ABSTRACT REVIEWER MEMBERS
Experimental Fibrinogenesis and Chronic Pancreatitis	11	Ashok Saluja	Aurella Lugea Edwin Thrower
Pancreatic Physiology and Basic Pancreatic Biology	14	Diane Simeon	Walter Halangk Miklos Sahin-Toth Guy Groblewski Ashok Saluja
Genetic Basis of Pancreatic Disease	15	Steve Vigna	Miklos Sahin-Toth Guy Groblewski
Clinical Acute Pancreatitis	38	James Grendell	Tim Gardner Scott Tenner Santhi Vege
Clinical Chronic Pancreatitis	35	James Grendell	Tim Gardner Scott Tenner Santhi Vege
Experimental Acute Pancreatitis	29	Ashok Saluja	Steve Pandol Markus Lerch Edwin Thrower
Pancreatic Cancer: Risk Factors and Diagnosis	23	Massimo Raimondo	Luca Frulloni Sanjay Jagannath Luca Frulloni
Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms and IPMN	32	Massimo Raimondo	Luca Frulloni Sanjay Jagannath
TOTAL ABSTRACTS RECEIVED:	197

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

PAN 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.  Members are also encouraged to review this year’s business meeting minutes.

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.

Thank you for your continuing strong support of the Pancreatic Disorders Section.

Sincerely,

Rodger A. Liddle, MD
Chair, PAN Section, AGA Institute Council
Liddl001@mc.duke.edu

Chris E. Forsmark, MD
Vice-Chair, PAN Section, AGA Institute Council
forsmce@medicine.ufl.edu