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🩺 BCM Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2026 Board Review Course
📅 Oct 3–4, 2026
📍 Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX
💻 In-person + Virtual
Register: cpd.education.bcm.edu/conten……
#GITwitter #MedEd #GIBoards
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Join us for the 25th Annual GI & Hepatology Conference @bcmhouston
🗓️March 28–29, 2026
📍 Houston, TX
Join experts discussing:
🔹 AI in GI
🔹 Endoscopic suturing
🔹 Intestinal ultrasound in IBD
🔹 Barrett’s esophagus
🔹 Obesity & metabolic GI
🔹 Pancreatic Diseases
@BCMCME
📣Honored to direct the 25th Annual GI & Hepatology Conference < 1 Mo away ⏰ Cutting edge GI, practice-changing updates, and network with our local and visiting experts! Or just come for the food 🥮🧁
Register & Agenda👉 tinyurl.com/ettjbf6a
@WasAbiDoc @JDBernicaMD
#JaredSninsky kicking off the Houston @CrohnsColitisFn MyIBD Learning Patient Conference with IBD 101 talk @BCMDeptMedicine @bcm_gihep
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Just published @JCC_IBD! ECCO Consensus on Dietary Management of IBD: includes recommendations on diet therapies for disease management, nutrition optimization, and IBD prevention. academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/ad…
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#CGH4ALL @AGA_CGH 📣
As we look for more targets in therapy of UC, this study reports on an IL-22 Agonist that did not have efficacy when compared to placebo or Vedo!
🔗 cghjournal.org/article/S1542…
Reported by @Ansari_Zaid7
@ibd_pal @EdBarnesMD @IBDGastroDocSg @Bealoquebea @KatieFalloonMD @CarlKayMD @JCC_IBD @laura_tee_mdgi @PashaShabanaMD @JanssenUS @DrHArmstrong
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🙏Very honored and excited for this great opportunity 🤩 cannot wait to work with this team and contribute to the GI field.
@BCMCME @bcm_gihep @bcmhouston @ACGCRJ @AmCollegeGastro #GITwitter #MedEd
Welcome, 2025-2026 ACG Case Reports Journal Associate Editors! #GIfellows
@hassamalii @KAlsabb @Ansari_Zaid7 @AasthaBharwad @Chatterjee_MD @umer446 @fouadsjaber @AbelJosephMD @RahulKarnaMD @FaisalNimri3 @SanjeevaniTomar
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Congratulations @shifaumarMD and @DeptVetAffairs
Milestone for Veteran care🎖️
@VAHouston becomes the first VA Pancreas Center of Excellence in 🇺🇸
Proud moment for #VeteransHealth 👏
ow.ly/JBCN50Wf6iL
Grateful for the support & leadership @EndoscopyOthman @ruben_hernaez @SeragHashem @KanwalFasiha @BiykemB
#HappyJuly4th🎆
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Replying to @MondayNightIBD @DCharabaty @abbvie @JanssenUS @TakedaPharma @sabpeds @JosephHabibi_MD @ibdtweets @andrewbgrossman @DignassAxel @BettenworthDb @fgomollon @berkeleydoc @dunleavy_katie @halesj126
40M with ileocolonic #Crohns in clinical remission on UST, endo healing on last CLN 2 yrs ago. He says he feels fine.
🧪labs: Hb 10 g/dl, Ferritin 60 ng/ml
#MondayNightIBD What would you at that visit?
12%Reassurance, monitor Hb
16%Start PO iron
20%✅PROMIS fatigue survey
51%📆Colonoscopy +/- EGD
88 votes • Final resultsBig thanks to @DrScottDLee @PedsIBD_Wahbeh and #DonaldLum for the warm invite, and fun engaging program last weekend with @IBDHorizons in Portland!
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#Anemia is more than a Hb number, it affects #IBD pts QOL & outcomes
🗳️PreB2B Polls
🧵#Back2Basics @AimenKhanMD @AroojMianMD May 12
📌Convo @JasonHouMD May 19
🆓#CME👉🏽 bit.ly/MNIBD24-25
Support by educ grants @abbvie @JanssenUS @TakedaPharma
📌Where r you in your🩺?
38%IBD Specialist
23%General GI/ CRSurgery
33%Trainee, Fellow
5%PharmD, RD, APP, RN,
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I just boosted my IBD knowledge in today's by sitting near #krish_subramanian @bcm_gihep course – at Houston, TX
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Did you know @KanwalFasiha’s attending was @ibddocmaria? 😮 Or that @brownbrij76 is an amusement park enthusiast? 🎢
We had a great time getting to know our newest board members today! Thank you to each of them for sharing about their work and interests.
We're thrilled to have our new governing board members
@KanwalFasiha, @RickPeekMD, Drs. Michael Kochman, Russ Arjal, and @brownbrij76 at AGA's offices today! Let's give them a warm welcome 👋🏽 as they begin their new roles in AGA leadership!
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📢 Join us for the 24th Annual BCM GI & Liver Course! This event brings together experts, sharing latest innovations & advances in gastroenterology & liver disease. Open to physicians, NPs, PAs, nurses, fellows & trainees. Don't miss out!
Register Here: cpd.education.bcm.edu/conten…
Novel MoA Lusvertikimab IL-7 inhibitor for ulcerative colitis presented #ECCO2025
- Phase 2 RCT
- Improved MMS over placebo @ 10wk
- HEMI improvement in 32% @ 10wk (🔼 25% over placebo)
RESCUE- Prospective RCT of pts w/ secondary failure to ustekinumab in Crohn’s #ECCO2025
⭐️ IV UST reinduction: 4 wk vs. 8 wk UST
⭐️ NO difference @ 48wk
⭐️ Both groups- Steroid free clinical remission <20% @ 48wk
Limited value of pushing for q4wk UST ➡️ switch MOA?
Applaud @EliLillyandCo for studying complexity of urgency in #ulcerativecolitis #Miri #ECCO2025
⭐️ Interesting only weak to moderate correlation between the 3 different aspects of urgency
⭐️ Urgency is often the most isolating sx of UC, important for us to better understand
Prof Danese presenting LUCENT-URGE data #ECCO2025
- Open Label wk12 analysis or mirikizumab for #ulcerativecolitis
- Looked at 3 new scales for urgency
⭐️ BU - severity
⭐️ BUF- frequency
⭐️ SDT- stool deferral time
- All scales improved on Miri @ 12wk
Prof Danese presenting LUCENT-URGE data #ECCO2025
- Open Label wk12 analysis or mirikizumab for #ulcerativecolitis
- Looked at 3 new scales for urgency
⭐️ BU - severity
⭐️ BUF- frequency
⭐️ SDT- stool deferral time
- All scales improved on Miri @ 12wk
GRAVITI SubQ induction of Guselkumab #ECCO2025
- Phase 3 GUS for Crohn’s
- 12wk Clin Remission 🔼35% over plac
- 12wk Endo response 🔼20% over plac
- 48wk Clin Rem 🔼~39% over plac
- 48wk Endo Res 🔼~38% over plac
⭐️Similar 12 and 48 wk data compared to IV induction
- SOR102: Novel oral dual acting local biologic Phase 1B study for UC
- Fast potential onset of action in higher dose arm
- Interesting PK- only detectable in serum in 1 pt
- 6/12 pts developed anti-drug antibody? Low titer- clinical impact unclear
#ECCO2025
Replying to @vipuljairath
@vipuljairath presenting #ECCO2025
Novel oral dual acting biologic for #ulcerativecolitis
- Phase 1B (6 pt placebo/16 pt on tx)
- Oral, local acting(?) dual TNFa/IL23 inhibitor
- Primary outcome= safety- No major signals
- Exploratory clinical outcome- positive signal
Prof Reinisch presented companion RELIEVE UCCD- UC Induction #ECCO2025
- #Duvakitug TL1A Phase 2B
- Primary outcome Clinical remission wk14
- 🔼 27% over placebo
- Similar 🔼 bio experienced/naive
- ?High placebo clinical response -52% vs. 81%/70% tx
@sanofi @tevapharm
Replying to @vipuljairath
@vipuljairath presented RELIEVE UCCD #ECCO2025
- Novel TL1A inhibitor #Duvakitug
- Phase 2B CD induction
- Primary outcome wk 14 Endoscopic response
- 🔼35% over placebo @ higher dose
- ? High placebo clinical remission: 41% vs. 54% high dose
@sanofi @tevapharm





























































