PROVIDING UNPARALLELED EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR LEADERS TODAY AND TOMORROW

Peer Education

• The weekly CME-accredited multidisciplinary gastrointestinal conference is the longest-running clinical conference at Houston Methodist Hospital, chaired by Alberto Barroso, MD, gastroenterologist. With active participation from medical students, residents and fellows, our medical and surgical teams present interesting and challenging cases to peers each week.

• Our clinicians participate in a monthly CME-accredited Houston GI Motility Conference, comprised of clinicians from Houston Methodist, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Memorial Hermann Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital, during which they discuss cases and clinical issues.

• Quarterly meetings with the Texas Gulf Coast GI Society encompass all GI fellowship programs and practicing gastroenterologists in the Greater Houston and Galveston areas.

• With a focus on clinical challenges in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, gastroenterologist Bincy Adams, MD, chairs a CME-accredited, inter-institutional monthly IBD case conference. Radiology, pathology, colorectal surgery and gastroenterology experts from local institutions provide input and insight into challenging cases presented by the teams.

Underwood Symposium

Initiated in 2015, the Underwood Symposium invites speakers from across North America who, together with our own gastroenterologists, oncologists, surgeons, pathologists and radiologists, showcase clinical and research activity from the last year.

We include a hands-on component at the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education (MITIESM) to introduce trainees to advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques and technology in the areas of mucosal ablation and resection, tissue closure, intraluminal stenting, gastroesophageal reflux, and ERCP. Participants learn to:

• Demonstrate proper technique for endoscopic mucosal resection using multiple methods

• Describe important principles of electrosurgical energy as applied in the GI tract

• Demonstrate the use of rescue strategies for GI bleeding or perforation following advanced tissue removal in the GI tract

• Discuss technical differences between endoscopic submucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)

• Demonstrate full thickness resection of small gastric masses

• Discuss the advantages of per oral choledochoscopy over cholangiography in managing select biliary pathology

• Describe the use of lumen-apposing metal stents

• Demonstrate transoral incisionless fundoplication treatment of GERD

Recent Underwood Symposium Invited

KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS:

• Charles Bernstein, MD Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba

• James Fleshman, MD, Baylor Scott & White Health

• Robert Hawes, MD, Orlando Health

• Ikuo Hirano, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

• Norio Kulami, MD, Mayo Clinic

• John Martinie, MD, Atrium Health

• Jeffrey Ponsky, MD, Cleveland Clinic

• Gottumukkala Raju, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

• Satish Rao, MD, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University

• Nicholas Shaheen, MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

• Reem Sharaiha, MD, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

• Nathanial Soper, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

• Stuart Spechler, MD, Baylor Scott & White Health

• Lee Swanstrom, MD, The Oregon Clinic Center for Advanced Surgery

• Michael Ujiki, MD, NorthShore University Health System

• Mark Whiteford, MD, Providence Cancer Institute