Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology faculty, trainees attend Digestive Disease Week 2023
Faculty and trainees in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department of Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine were recognized and well represented again this year at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), the world’s premier scientific conference for gastroenterology and digestive disorders. This year’s conference was held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 6-9.
Dr. Stuart Goates poses with his research group’s poster, “A 12-year experience of using domperidone for the treatment of gastroparesis: Can we predict who is likely to benefit?,” at Digestive Disease Week.
In addition to a wide variety of outstanding poster presentations, the Division had multiple faculty and trainees presenting oral research presentations and/or overseeing clinical, research and/or educational sessions at the meeting. This included multiple invited research talks by members of the laboratories of Drs. Matthew Coates, Thomas Ma, Prashant Nighot and Iryna Pinchuk. This also included invitations to participate on the panels of several scientific or educational sessions, including by Drs. John Levenick, Jennifer Maranki, Matthew Moyer and Jonathan Stine. Dr. Stine also literally became one of the faces of the conference, as he was represented on a conference banner.
For a more complete idea of the DDW activities and recognitions that members of the Division were involved with, see the list below.
- Matthew Coates, MD PhD, August Stuart, Jeffrey Small, Emmanuelle Williams, MD, Andrew Tinsley, MD, Kofi Clarke, MD, Vonn Walter, PhD, Piotr Janicki, MD PhD, Ann Ouyang, MD, Victor Ruiz-Velasco, PhD, Kent Vrana, PhD
Presentation Title: HYPOALGESIA IN BOTH CROHN’S DISEASE AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS ASSOCIATED WITH HOMOZYGOSITY FOR A NAV1.8 POLYMORPHISM
Session: AGA Signaling Through the ENS in GI Diseases
Session Type: Research Forum (Oral Presentation)
Date & Time: May 6, 2023 from 9:15 AM to 9:30 AM, Location: S105d (McCormick Place) - Raz Abdulqadir: Abstract # 3860720
Kushal Saha, graduate assistant working with Dr. Prashant Nighot, leads a plenary session on his research project, “Intestinal epithelia-specific deletion of aryl hydrocarbonreceptor (AHR) reduces paracellular tight junction permeability and hinders immunogenic tolerance,” at Digestive Disease Week.
Presentation: BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM CAUSES AN ENHANCEMENT OF THE INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL TIGHT JUNCTION BARRIER IS MEDIATED BY TLR-2-DEPENDENT UPREGULATION OF OCCLUDIN EXPRESSION
Session: AGA Basic Mechanisms of Tissue Injury, Repair and Fibrosis
Session Type: Poster Session
Session Date & Time: May 6, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, Location: South Hall A, Poster Hall (McCormick Place) - Ba Djibril, Vern Chinchilli, Jennifer L. Maranki: Sa1415
Presentation Title: ASSOCIATION OF STATINS EXPOSURE AND ACUTE PANCREATITIS: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY USING A LARGE NATIONAL INSURANCE DATABASE
Session Type: Poster Session 6185
Session Date and Time: May 6, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM - Myunghoon Kim
Presentation Title: EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THERAPEUTIC NEEDLE-KNIFE INCISIONAL THERAPY FOR ESOPHAGEAL STRICTURES REFRACTORY TO MAINSTAY TREATMENT
Session Type: Poster Session
Session Title: ASGE Esophagus I
Session Date & Time: May 6, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CDT (UTC –5)
Dr. Scott Weismiller displays his research poster on the rates of rates of venous thromboembolism and extended pharmacologic prophylaxis following ulcerative colitis surgery.
- Laura Telfer, MS, Shannon Dalessio, MA, Andrew Tinsley, MD, Matthew Coates, MD PhD
Presentation Title: POOR OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM OPIOID USE IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
Session Type: Poster Session
Session Title: AGA IBD: Natural History, Environmental Exposures, and Outcomes
Session Date & Time: May 6, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CDT (UTC –5) - Scott Weismiller, Andrew Tinsley, Guodong Liu, Kofi Clarke, Matthew Coates, Emmanuelle Williams, Jeffrey Scow, Stuart Goates
Presentation Title: THE HIGHS AND LOWS: RATES OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM AND EXTENDED PHARMACOLOGIC PROPHYLAXIS FOLLOWING ULCERATIVE COLITIS SURGERY IN 5,974 PATIENTS
Session Type: Poster Session
Session Title: AGA IBD: Natural History, Environmental Exposures, and Outcomes
Session Date & Time: May 6, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CDT (UTC –5) - Ganapathy, Ashwinkumar Subramenium; Saha, Kushal; Wang,Alexandra; Dharmaprakash, Viszwapriya; Yochum, Gregory Steven; Koltun, Walter; Nighot, Meghali; Ma, Thomas Y; Nighot, Prashant.
Presentation Title: ALPHA-TOCOPHERYLQUINONE ACTIVATE AHR/NRF2 PATHWAY AND ENHANCESINTESTINAL EPITHELIAL TIGHT JUNCTION BARRIER VIA DIFFERENTIAL MODULATION OF CLAUDINS
Session Type: Research Forum
Session Title: AGA Signaling Mechanisms Regulating Intestinal Mucosal Homeostasis
Session Date & Time: May 6, 2023 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM CDT (UTC –5)
Presentation Time: 5:00 PM to 5:15 PM CDT (UTC –5) - Marina Chulkina
Myunghoon Kim stands beside his research poster, “Evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic needle-knife incisional therapy for esophageal strictures refractory to mainstay treatment,” at Digestive Disease Week.
Presentation Title: ACTIVATION OF MK2-TTP SIGNALING AS A DRIVER OF PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN INTESTINAL FIBROBLASTS IN CROHN’S DISEASE Session Type: Research Forum
Session Title: AGA Advances in Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Repair in the Intestine
Session Date & Time: May 7, 2023 from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM CDT (UTC –5) - Presenter: Ibrahim Yaghnam
Speaker(s): Nabeel Akhtar, Ibrahim Yaghnam, Daniella Mikhail, Solomon Klombers, Hadie Razjouyan, Mathew Abraham
Su1349: Increase in Body Mass Index Is an Important Predictor of Developing Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (Gerd) After Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM)
Track: Esophageal disorders
Format: Poster, Society: ASGE
Poster Number: Su1349, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Dr. Jonathan Stine moderates a session during Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, Illinois.
- Panganiban R, Tuan A, Hart M, Pelton M, Mikhail D, Akhtar S, Bogale K. Harris L, Deiling S, Coates M, Yochum G, Koltun W.
Session Type: Poster Session
Presentation Title: Pre-colectomy circulating miRNAs as predictors of pouchitis in patients with UC.
Poster Number SU1761, 12:30 – 1:30 - Manmeet Rawat, PhD.
Session Title: AGA Cell and Molecular Biology of Gastrointestinal Disorders
Session Type: Poster Session
Poster Presentation Title: ROLE OF AUTOPHAGY IN COLONIC MUCUS SECRETION IN PATIENTS WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND HEALTHY SUBJECTS.
Poster Number: Su1212, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM - Zeba Hussaini, MD, Stuart Goates, MD, Sage Gee, BS, Elizbeth A. Thompson PA-C, Durgesh Chaudhary, MBBS, Ann Ouyang, MD
Presentation Title: A 12-YEAR EXPERIENCE OF USING DOMPERIDONE FOR THE TREATMENT OF GASTROPARESIS: CAN WE PREDICT WHO IS LIKELY TO BENEFIT?
Abstract # 3864829
Dr. Ronaldo Panganiban stands beside a poster displaying his research project, “Pre-colectomy circulating miRNAs as predictors of pouchitis in patients with UC,” at Digestive Disease Week.
Session: AGA Gastroparesis and Small Intestinal Dysmotility
Session Type: Poster Session
12:30 PM- 1:30 PM, Location: South Hall A, Poster Hall (McCormick Place) - Session Moderator (Jon Stine)
Session Title: AASLD What’s New In NASH/NAFLD
Session Type: Topic Forum
Session Date & Time: May 7, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Invited Speaker (Jon Stine)
Session Title: AGA Board Review Course 2023 Session Type: Board Review Course Session Presentation Title: METABOLIC, HEREDITARY, INFLAMMATORY, AND VASCULAR DISEASES OF THE LIVER
Date & Time: May 7, 2023 from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Presentation Time: 3:03 PM to 3:16 PM - Jennifer Maranki
Sp793a: ‘MIND THE GAP’ SUTURE AND CLOSURE FACULTY
ASGE Learning Center, South Hall A, McCormick Place
Session Number 4170
Session Date and Time: May 8, 2023 from 9:02 AM to 11:00 AM - Anirudh Venkatesh, Kushal Saha, Ashwinkumar Subramenium Ganapathy, Alexandra Wang, Meghali Nighot, Thomas Ma, and Prashant Nighot.
Presentation Title: INTESTINAL EPITHELIA-SPECIFIC DELETION OF ARYL HYDROCARBONRECEPTOR (AHR) REDUCES PARACELLULAR TIGHT JUNCTION PERMEABILITY AND HINDERS IMMUNOGENIC TOLERANCE
Dr. Matthew Coates presents during Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, Illinois.
Session Type: Plenary Session
Session Title: AGA Cellular & Molecular Gastroenterology (CMG) Section Distinguished Abstract Plenary
Session Date & Time: May 8, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM CDT (UTC –5)
Presentation Time: 10:12 AM to 10:24 AM CDT (UTC –5) - Manmeet Rawat, PhD
Session Title: AGA Pancreatic Genetics, Epigenetics, Physiology, Cell Biology and Pathobiology
Session Type: Poster Session
Poster Presentation Title: PANCREATIC CANCER SURVIVAL IS AFFECTED BY COMORBIDITIES LIKE OBESITY, HYPERTENSION, AND INFLAMMATION VIA MIRNA-MEDIATED SUPPRESSION OF THE KISSPEPTIN RECEPTOR.
Number: 3866073, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CDT (UTC –5) - Raz Abdulqadir: Abstract # 3857631
Presentation: BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM PREVENTS CYTOKINE INDUCED INCREASE IN INTESTINAL TIGHT JUNCTION PERMEABILITY BY A NOVEL MECHANISM: CROSSTALK BETWEEN PPAR-γ, NF-κB AND MLCK
Session: AGA IBD Cytokines, Signaling, and Receptors
Session Type: Research Forum (Oral Presentation)
Session Date & Time: May 8, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 2:15 PM, Location: S100ab (McCormick Place) - Matthew Coates, MD PhD
Presentation Title: INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE OR IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
Session: AGA Chronic Abdominal Pain: How to Differentiate the Look Alikes
Session Type: Clinical Symposium (Oral Presentation)
Date & Time: May 9, 2023 from 8:20 AM to 8:40 AM, Location:W192 (McCormick Place) - Kushal Saha, Ashwinkumar Subramenium Ganapathy, Alexandra Wang, Nathan Morris, Leonard Harris, Gregory Yochum, Walter Koltun, Meghali Nighot, Thomas Ma, and Prashant Nighot.
Presentation Title: ALPHA-TOCOPHERYLQUINONE (TQ) REDUCES INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION BY INHIBITING NFκB AND STAT3 SIGNALING IN AN ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) DEPENDENT MECHANISM
Session Type: Research Forum
Session Title: AGA Intestinal Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Regeneration
Session Date & Time: May 9, 2023 from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM CDT (UTC –5)
Presentation Time: 9:00 AM to 9:15 AM CDT (UTC –5)
Dr. Ibrahim Yaghnam’s research poster is displayed at Digestive Disease Week.
- Ibrahim Yaghnam
Presentation Title: CORRELATION AND PREDICTORS OF CULPRIT LESION LOCATION USING VIDEO CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY AND ENTEROSCOPIES IN SMALL BOWEL BLEEDS
Session Type: Poster Session
Session Title: ASGE Stomach and Small Intestine IV
Session Date & Time: May 9, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CDT (UTC –5) - Lauren Kaminsky: Abstract # 3863104
Presentation: LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS ENHANCEMENT OF THE INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL TIGHT JUNCTION BARRIER IS MEDIATED BY TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR-2- AND TIRAP- DEPENDENT BUT MYD88-INDEPENDENT MECHANISM
Session: AGA Epithelial Junctions and Barrier Function
Session Type: Poster Session
Session Date & Time: May 9, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: South Hall A, Poster Hall (McCormick Place)
Raz Abdulqadir, a PhD candidate working with Dr. Thomas Ma, presents during a research forum at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, Illinois.
- Iryna Pinchuk
Session Type: Poster Session
Presentation Title: JAK2/STAT SIGNALING: ROLE IN GENERATION OF INFLAMMATORY MESENCHYMAL CELLS IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS Session Title: AGA Non-Immune Cells in Intestinal Inflammation: Epithelium and Stroma
Session Date & Time: May 9, 2023 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM CDT (UTC –5). - Invited Speaker (Matthew T. Moyer)
Session Title: ASGE Hot Topics in Pancreatic Cysts and Tumors
Presentation: EUS-Guided Tumor Ablation
Session Type: Clinical symposium
S401 (McCormick Place), 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Jessica Engers: Abstract # 3860980
Presentation: CROSS-TALK BETWEEN TLR2 AND NOD1 IS REQUIRED FOR LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS ENHANCEMENT OF MOUSE INTESTINAL TIGHT JUNCTION BARRIER
Session: AGA Pathogens and Microbiome in Gut Inflammation
Session Type: Research Forum (Oral Presentation)
Session Date & Time: May 9, 2023 from 3:15 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: W196 (McCormick Place) - John Levenick, MD
Presentation # Mo1657
Presentation: COMPARING MARGIN ABLATION TECHNIQUES AFTER ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION OF LARGE NONPEDUNCULATED COLORECTAL POLYPS
Session Date & Time: May 8, 2023 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Moderator, “ASGE Advancing Endoscopic Education for the Advanced Fellow”
Session Type: Topic Forum
Session Date & Time: May 8, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Faculty in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology pause to take photos with the conference banners featuring Dr. Jonathan Stine at Digestive Disease Week.
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