Optimizing Endoscopic Practice for Efficient Patient Care

Under the guidance of expert faculty, this comprehensive course is designed to enhance endoscopic practice and alter the learner’s approach to a wide range of gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders.

Staying Ahead in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

The continuous expansion of the knowledge base for gastrointestinal endoscopy, driven by rapid technological innovations, demands that gastroenterologists stay updated on the latest evidence, algorithms, and treatment options to provide optimal patient care.

Advances in therapeutic endoscopy are challenging or replacing traditional diagnostic techniques, making it essential for healthcare professionals to understand and effectively apply current and emerging diagnostic and treatment options to elevate practice levels and enhance patient outcomes.

Course Objectives

• Improve ability to accurately diagnose and effectively treat gastrointestinal diseases and disorders
• Enhance quality and safety in practice settings
• Recognize trends and technological advances in interventional endoscopic and surgical procedures
• Foster an evidence-based approach to endoscopic decision-making for commonly encountered and controversial problems in gastroenterology

Learning Objectives

• Identify appropriate methods to detect and treat common disorders of the small bowel, colon, and pancreas, as well as endobariatric therapy for obesity, and review the effectiveness of these approaches
• Discuss the spectrum of commonly seen disorders of the esophagus and stomach, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease, Barrett’s esophagus, motility disorders, and gastric intestinal metaplasia, and outline related treatment options and their effectiveness
• Discuss the management of metabolic associated fatty liver disease and evaluate the efficacy and safety of current treatments
• Evaluate advances in the methods of assessing disease status in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and discuss the application of these techniques to patient treatment
• Examine the diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities as well as complications of current and emerging advanced endoscopic techniques to diagnose and treat disorders of the hepatobiliary tract, pancreas, and luminal gastrointestinal tract and to detect and manage suspected small bowel bleeding

Course Topics

Expert lectures and sessions will cover a range of topics, including:

• ASGE Presidents Lecture: Ten Tips for Ensuring High Quality in the Performance of ERCP
• Course Directors Closing Remarks by Jerome D. Waye, MD
• Lecture: Use of the Stethoscope in Diagnosing GI Disease by Lawrence J. Brandt, MD
• Lecture: Innovations in Therapeutic Endoscopy
• Live Endoscopy Case Presentations (Sessions 1-5)
• Lunch Program: Eosinophilic Esophagitis – Clinical Implications of Uncontrolled Disease Progression
• Lunch Program: ESD – Can It Be Easier?
• NYSGE Presidents Lecture: The Sagittal View – A Gastroenterologists Perspective
• NYSGE-2022-Annual-Course-Preview-Brochure.pdf

Endoscopic Video Forum sessions by Peter D. Stevens, MD, will cover:

• A Tough to Swallow Procedure
• Endoscopic Drainage of a Large Abdominal Abscess in the Setting of a Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunt
• Two Cases of 10 cm Circumferential Esophageal ESD

Additional sessions will focus on:

• Confronting Chronic Constipation
• Incorporating Upper GI Motility Testing into Your Practice
• Managing the Challenges of Gastroparesis
• Gastric Cancer Spectrum of Care: Screening and Management of Intestinal Metaplasia
• Implementing New Guidelines for Barrett’s Esophagus
• Practical Guidance for Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Colonic ESD: When and Why
• High-Quality Polypectomy
• Avoiding and Fixing Perforations
• Upper GI Bleeding: Optimizing Outcomes
• Advanced Endoscopy for the IBDologist
• Management of Serious and Opportunistic Infections in IBD Patients on Immunosuppression
• Personalized IBD Therapy
• Prevention of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis: Who, When & How
• Screening for Pancreatic Cancer: Who, When & How
• Tackling the Difficult Biliary Stone: Who, When & How
• Glue, Coils & Foam: Endoscopic Treatment of Gastric Varices
• Portal Hypertension Simplified: EV and PHG
• Update on MAFLD (Not a Typo) and NASH
• Billing, Coding, and Documentation: Getting the Credit You Deserve
• Patient Communication: Not Just the Same Old Talk
• Sidney J. Winawer, MD Lecture: Building for Our Future – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in GI