ACG's Committees (cont.) PATIENT CARE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Christine Y. Hachem, MD, FACG, Chair Jatinder P. Ahluwalia, MD, FACG Allan W. Barbish, MD, FACG Peter S. Buch, MD, FACG Allison M. Bush, MD Jennifer X. Cai, MD Matthew A. Chin, MD Cuckoo Choudhary, MD John DeBanto, MD, FACG Ryan K. Fawley, MD Joseph D. Feuerstein, MD Sravanya Gavini, MD Emmanuel C. Gorospe, MD, MPH, FACG
Ari M. Grinspan, MD Lauren T. Grinspan, MD, PhD Royce Groce, MD Anupama Inaganti, MD Daniela Jodorkovsky, MD, FACG Sundip S. Karsan, MD, FACG Maia Kayal, MD Dennis Kumral, MD Jared S. Magee, DO Patrick K. McCabe, MD Fazia A. Mir, MD James D. Morris, MD, FACG Malav P. Parikh, MD
RESPONSIBILITIES AS STATED IN THE ACG BYLAWS The Committee shall be responsible for educating the membership in all matters pertaining to office management, patient education, and practice of gastroenterology.
OBJECTIVES 1. Provide up-to-date, balanced education on gastrointestinal disease and procedures to patients 2. Stewardship of the content of the ACG Patient website 3. Increase Patient Engagement with the College
COMMITTEE REPORT The ACG Patient Care Committee is charged with developing educational materials for ACG members and patients. Digital health information is an important resource for patients and the Committee works to ensure the College is offering accurate and up-to-date topics via the ACG Web site’s Patient Education pages at patients.gi.org. A major activity of the Committee is to oversee and update sections of the patient education site. New Media Subcommittee The newly established New Media Subcommittee is responsible for reaching patients and providing patient education materials in innovative ways and through new platforms. The Subcommittee has begun to present relevant content in new and engaging ways including Instagram Live discussions, patient-centered podcasts, and a patient centered YouTube Channel, https://bit.ly/3sGah6J.
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Pranav B. Patel, MD S. Devi Rampertab, MD, FACG Brian P. Riff, MD Richard P. Rood, MD, FACG Abbas H. Rupawala, MD Brijen J. Shah, MD Rohit Singhania, MD, FACG Clayton M. Spiceland, MD Lauren K. Tormey, MD Drew Triplett, DO Abhinav Vemula, MD Jean S. Wang, MD, PhD, FACG Allison L. Yang, MD
Christine Y. Hachem, MD, FACG
Patient Care Website Updates 2021 has been a busy year for the committee. The year started with a comprehensive review of the ACG Patient Care webpage, patients.gi.org. Following the review, committee members were asked to update the content and create new content in areas that are regularly seen in practice but not included in the previous patient care resources. The committee has also begun to enhance the usability of the patient care pages with the addition of sharing tools, enhanced printing options, and an assessment of pages for appropriate health literacy. For IBS Awareness Month this year, useful patient tools such as the IBS Symptom Tracker and the IBS Treatment Checklist were updated on the site, and there was an addition of a new IBS Infographic. Patient Brochures ACG, with the help of the patient care committee, has also developed the following brochures based on patient care topics: CRC: https://webfiles.gi.org/links/committees/Public%20Relations/2021CRCinfographic.pdf IBS: https://webfiles.gi.org/images/patients/IBS-infographic.pdf Belly Breathing: https://webfiles.gi.org/links/PCC/Belly-Breathing-handout.pdf Cross Committee Collaboration Patient Care partnered with the PR committee on the #FightTheFlu campaign and Flu and COVID immunization webinars Ongoing Priorities • Ongoing review and updates to GI health topics via patients.gi.org • Identify gaps in Patient Education content on gi.org • The newly established New Media Subcommittee producing new media content including monthly Instagram Live discussions and the development of questions for the AJG co-editors-in-chief’s interview with the author of a key article in the journal highlighting important clinical science • Expand patient care pages that are translated into Spanish and other languages
