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Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review

  • Earn up to 40.25 CME credits | ABIM | AAPA

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review

$895.00

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Continuing Medical Education: Advances in Gastroenterology and Hepatology

The 40+ hour-long lectures in Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review focus on the clinical management of disorders of the esophagus, stomach and small intestines, colon, liver, pancreas, and biliary tract. Keep pace with the latest developments in your field as you prepare for the ABIM subspecialty boards.

 

This online CME course will help you to discuss diagnostic and therapeutic interventions — diagnostic procedures, medical therapy, and procedural therapy — and treatment recommendations based on disorder characteristics and disease prognosis.

Topics / Speakers

Esophagus

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and Barrett’s Esophagus - Stuart Jon Spechler, MD

Esophageal Motility and Structural Disorders - Dustin A. Carlson, MD

Update in Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis - John J. Garber III, MD

Esophageal Cancer - Anil K. Rustgi, MD

Stomach and Small Intestine

Pathophysiology of Peptic Ulcer Disease - Helen M. Shields, MD

Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage: Diagnosis and Management - Dennis M. Jensen, MD

Motility Disorders: Gastroparesis, Functional Dyspepsia, Ileus - Braden Kuo, MD, MSc

Malabsorption and Nutrition - Henry J. Binder, MD

Viral/Bacterial Gastroenteritis - Jason B. Harris, MD

Constipation/Diarrhea - Lawrence R. Schiller, MD

Celiac Disease, Nonceliac Gluten Sensitivity - Peter H.R. Green, MD

Colon

Diagnosis and Management of Clostridioides difficile Infections - Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH

Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Anita Afzali, MD, MPH

Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Walter W. Chan, MD, MPH

The Spectrum of Gastrointestinal Ischemia: 2020 - Lawrence J. Brandt, MD

Colorectal Cancer: Screening Strategies - Shilpa Grover, MD, MPH

An Update on Colorectal and Anal Cancers - Robert J. Mayer, MD

Hereditary Gastrointestinal Polyposis/Cancer Syndromes - John M. Carethers, MD

Liver - Hepatitis

Viral Hepatitis Overview - Raymond T. Chung, MD

Hepatitis B - Norah Terrault, MD, MPH

Hepatitis C - Ira M. Jacobson, MD

HIV – Viral Hepatitis Co-Infection - Kenneth E. Sherman, MD, PhD

Liver - General

Drug-Induced Liver Injury - William M. Lee, MD, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - Arun J. Sanyal, MD

Alcoholic Hepatitis - Jay Luther, MD

Autoimmune Liver Disorders - John M. Vierling, MD, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF

Genetic Liver Disorders - Kris V. Kowdley, MD

Hepatic Decompensation - Andrea Ewing Reid, MD, MPH

Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Augusto Villanueva, MD

Liver Transplantation - Thomas D. Schiano, MD

Liver Fibrosis - Don C. Rockey, MD

Pancreas

Acute Pancreatitis - Peter J. Fagenholz, MD

Recurrent/Chronic Pancreatitis: Evaluation and New Therapies - Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD

Update in Pancreatic Cancer - William R. Brugge, MD

Billiary Tract

Gallstones, Gallbladder, and Biliary Tract Disease - Muthoka L. Mutinga, MD

Cholangiocarcinoma - Sumera H. Rizvi, MBBS

Special Topics

Gut Microbiome - Fergus Shanahan, MD

Approach to Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage - John R. Saltzman, MD

Obesity – Medical and Surgical Therapies - Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD

COVID-19: Gastrointestinal Manifestations - Thomas R. McCarty, MD

Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Toxicities of Checkpoint Blockade - Michael Dougan, MD

Faculty

Course Director

Jules L. Dienstag, MD

Carl W. Walter Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Physician, Gastrointestinal Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Speakers

Anita Afzali, MD

Medical Director

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus, OH

Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH

Associate Director

Crohn’s and Colitis Center

Director, Fecal Microbiota Transplant Program

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Henry J. Binder, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine

Senior Research Scientist

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CT

Lawrence J. Brandt, MD

Emeritus Chief, Division of Gastroenterology

Montefiore Medical Center

Professor of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx, NY

William R. Brugge, MD

Chief, Gastroenterology

Mount Auburn Hospital

Cambridge, MA

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

John M. Carethers, MD

John G. Searle Professor and Chair

Department of Internal Medicine

Professor of Human Genetics

University of Michigan Medical School

Ann Arbor, MI

Dustin A. Carlson, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine – Gastroenterology

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Walter W. Chan, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Gastrointestinal Motility

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Raymond T. Chung, MD

Director of Hepatology and Liver Center

Kevin and Polly Maroni MGH Research Scholar

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Associate Member

Broad Institute

Cambridge, MA

Michael Dougan, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Gastroenterology Division

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Peter Fagenholz, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Chief, Division of Translational Research

Director, The Pancreas Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, MA

John J. Garber III, MD

Instructor in Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Associate Gastroenterologist

Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Newton, MA

Peter H.R. Green, MD

Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg Professor of Medicine

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Director of the Celiac Disease Center

Columbia University Medical Center

New York, NY

Shilpa Grover, MD, MPH

Director, Onco-Gastroenterology Program

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Part-Time

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Jason B. Harris, MD

Division Chief, Pediatric Global Health

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Harvard Medical School

Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Microbiology

MassGeneral Hospital for Children

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Ira M. Jacobson, MD

Professor of Medicine

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Director of Hepatology

NYU Langone Health

New York, NY

Dennis M. Jensen, MD

Professor of Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Staff Physician, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center

Los Angeles, CA

Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD

Director, Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Kris V. Kowdley, MD

Director, Liver Institute Northwest

Seattle, WA

Clinical Professor

Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine

Washington State University

Spokane, WA

 

Braden Kuo, MD, MSc

Director of the Center for Neurointestinal Health

Gastrointestinal Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

William M. Lee, MD, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Dallas, TX

Jay Luther, MD

Director, MGH Alcohol Liver Center

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Robert J. Mayer, MD

Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Faculty Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, MA

Thomas R. McCarty, MD

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Muthoka L. Mutinga, MD

Associate Physician

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Andrea Ewing Reid, MD, MPH

Director of Diversity and Faculty Development

Gastrointestinal Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Dean for Student and Multicultural Affairs

Director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA)

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Sumera Rizvi, MD

Assistant Professor of Immunology and Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN

Don Rockey, MD

Professor of Medicine

The Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, SC

Anil K. Rustgi, MD

Interim Executive Vice President and Dean

of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine

Irving Professor of Medicine

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Director

Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center

New York, NY

John R. Saltzman, MD

Senior Physician

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Professor of Medicine, Part-Time

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Arun J. Sanyal, MD

Z. Reno Vlahcevic Professor of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Richmond, VA

Thomas D. Schiano, MD

Professor of Medicine

Medical Director

Liver Transplantation

Intestinal Transplantation

Director of Clinical Hepatology

Division of Liver Diseases/Transplantation Institute

The Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York, NY

Lawrence R. Schiller, MD

Program Director

Gastroenterology Fellowship

Baylor University Medical Center

Dallas, TX

Fergus Shanahan, MD

APC Microbiome Ireland

Department of Medicine

University College Cork

Cork, Ireland

Kenneth E. Sherman, MD

Gould Professor of Medicine

Director, Division of Digestive Diseases

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Cincinnati, OH

Helen M. Shields, MD

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Associate Chief, Division of Medical Communications

Senior Physician

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy

Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, MA

Stuart Jon Spechler, MD

Chief, Division of Gastroenterology

Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases

Baylor University Medical Center

Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Research

Baylor Scott & White Research Institute

Dallas, TX

Norah Terrault, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Keck Medicine at University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

John Vierling, MD, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF

Professor of Medicine and Surgery

Chief of Hepatology

Director of Baylor Liver Health

Director of Advanced Liver Therapies

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Augusto Villanueva, MD

Liver Cancer Program

Tisch Cancer Institute

Divisions of Liver Diseases, Hematology and Medical Oncology

Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Accreditation / Pass Guarantee

Accreditation

Oakstone Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation

American Medical Association (AMA)

Oakstone Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 40.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 40.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

 

American Academy of PAs (AAPA)

AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 40.25 hours of Category I credit for completing this program.

 

Date of Original Release: October 15, 2020
Date Credits Expire: October 15, 2023
Estimated Time to Complete: 40.25 hours

 

CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

  • Differentiate between viral and bacterial gastroenteritis
  • Explain the screening strategies for colorectal cancer and for other gastrointestinal cancers
  • Recognize the therapeutic interventions for treating hepatitis B and hepatitis C
  • Distinguish between Barrett’s esophagus and gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • Compare the signs and symptoms found in acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis
  • Discuss the medical and surgical interventions for obesity
  • Describe the gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19
  • Explain the significance of the gut microbiome
  • List the complications of a cholecystectomy
  • Explain the complications of H. Pylori infection and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome in peptic ulcer disease

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for gastroenterologists, hepatologists, internists, fellows in gastroenterology, internal medicine residents interested in gastroenterology and hepatology.

Board Pass Guarantee

We Guarantee You'll Pass! Diligent course study and successful completion of the CME quiz provides the strongest likelihood of passing board certification or maintenance of certification exams. Oakstone is so confident of your success that we guarantee it. If you do not pass your exam on the first attempt, mail us a copy of your board failure notification, plus our system certificate reflecting your successful completion of the CME quizzes for the board review product purchased. You will receive a credit for the purchase price paid (less any discounts or premium), which you may apply to future purchases with Oakstone. Your exam record will be destroyed. Your board failure notification can be mailed to: Oakstone, P.O. Box 190165, Birmingham, AL 35219. If you have any questions on this policy, please feel free to contact Customer Service at 1-800-633-4743.

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a CMEinfo video production

Provider: Oakstone CME

Course Director:
Jules L. Dienstag, MD
Carl W. Walter Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Physician, Gastrointestinal Unit

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

Credits: Earn a maximum of 40.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 40.25 MOC points

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