Chief Gastro @WRJ_VAMC, Dartmouth Professor @Geiselmed, Leads CONFIRM RCT comparing #colonoscopy vs FIT, Chair, USMSTF on #colorectalcancer

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Sincere thanks to near 50000 Vets randomized to colonoscopy or FIT in CONFIRM trial. In honor, I did the same! x.com/WRJ_VAMC/status/903640…

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Dr. Douglas Robertson of @WRJ_VAMC flips a coin to see how he will be screened for Colorectal #Cancer @VAResearch
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🌅☀️@AmCollegeGastro #LeadershipYOU kick off with Clinical Research Leaders Program 🔵@NickShaheen’s excellent pearls on how to build your team “Invest in People” 🔵@BrennanSpiegel’s lessons learned from research career “Think creatively and have creative ppl around you”
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⭐️🌟✨Best mentee, recruit, now colleague and endoscopic tourdeforce!🙌🏼🙌🏼 Love seeing you shine on and off the podium ⭐️
Mentorship meet w the ever so amazing @AasmaShaukatMD ! Your first chief can change the trajectory of your career ✈️ I was lucky to have her as my first boss 🤩 & now forever mentor 🙏🙏 #ACG2025 @AmCollegeGastro
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#ACGInstitute Clinical Research Leadership Program #CRLP
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What a team! It’s been an honor co-directing this weekend’s @AmCollegeGastro Clinical Research Leadership Program where the top emerging research talent in the country convened to learn how to stretch the limits of GI investigation.
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Thx Fola. Congrats on your Scopy AwardS! Hope we cross paths again soon!
You’re lucky when you get to catch up with both of these incredible leaders in #colorectalcancer prevention and early detection at the same time. @JasonDominitz @DougRobertsonMD #ACG2024 @AmCollegeGastro Congrats on the #ACG #SCOPY award for #CRC awareness!
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#ACG2024 attendees, VA recruiters will be at Booth #1235. Be sure to stop by and let them tell you about the unmatched benefits you can enjoy when you #WorkAtVA. For event details, visit: vacareers.va.gov/events/#acg…
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Ready to go to ✈️ #Philly ! #ACG2024 is gonne be 🔥🔥🔥 If you see any of these super ⭐️s 👇 from our research team - Please give em a 🙌🙌 Including 3 #FirstTimeACG ✅✅ @AmCollegeGastro
SO very Proud of our incredible group of residents, #GIfellows & collaborators ✅ 35 Abstracts for our team at #ACG2024 ✅ 2 Plenary Session Presentation ✅ 1 Oral Presentation 📸 below: #ACG2024 Research Preparation meeting ➡️ 🌞#Philly @AmCollegeGastro 💙 #ACGFamily
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Dartmouth Health & @GeiselMed have received an estate gift of more than $14 million to revolutionize digestive health @DHMCandClinics. This bequest from the late Walter & Carole Young is one of the largest gifts in DHMC history. @AmCollegeGastro #ACG2024 dartmouth-health.org/about/n…
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Get hands on leadership experience by serving on an AGA committee or as a course director! Whether you're new to what a committee position can offer, or you're rotating off, there's a place for you. Nominate yourself or a colleague by Nov. 1. ow.ly/BRsZ50TR5Oa
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📣📣Calling #gitwitter peers who work at a VA or may want to: ➡️Come to our session Monday at 8 am-930 am ➡️Topics include IBD, Hepatology, Endoscopy Quality, CrC Screening and VA Research funding❗️ eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?… #DDW2024 @DDWMeeting @AmerGastroAssn
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Which of the many steps in a #colorectalcancer screening program have the greatest impact? Study led by @DouglasCorley @kpnorcal @PermanenteDocs now in @JAMANetworkOpen provides insights for improving outcomes & care value in #CRC. #cancerscreening Study: ibit.ly/eFnrp
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Meet the brightest minds and biggest names at #DDW2024. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑During social receptions, interactive forums & informal gatherings, you’ll keep your finger on the pulse of your #GI community. See what we have planned this year👉ow.ly/2hCB50Rib6O
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18 Apr 2024
Submit your GI & hepatology clinical research abstracts for presentation at the #ACG2024 Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate Course! Abstracts are due June 17 📥 bit.ly/ACG2024-Abstracts @IBD_Afzali @JLeightonMD
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9 Feb 2023
We talked Knicks, trade deadline, Josh Hart, Obi Toppin, Zach LaVine, Derrick Rose, OG Anunoby, Cam Reddish & more on The Putback w/@FredKatz, @CPTheFanchise & our lead guard @ChelseaSherrod: x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYygbN…

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Congratulations to Dr. Aasma Shaukat for her recognition at Dean’s Honors Day as The Robert M. and Mary H Glickman Professor of Medicine. @AasmaShaukatMD @nyugrossman @nyulangone
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Options options options. We must give people options for #colorectalcancer screening if we want to prevent cancer diagnoses and save lives. Thank you @mnt for highlighting the many options for #crc #screening @samirguptaGI @UCLAHealth @UCSDHealth @AmerGastroAssn @AmCollegeGastro
Colorectal cancer: Noninvasive tests may be just as effective as colonoscopy zpr.io/uqvbjpwd9ehd #ScienceTwitter
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Honored to be giving the Emily Couric Memorial lecture on The state of CRC screening and where we need to go🙏🏼🙏🏼 💙Now more than ever we need double down on our efforts🙌🏼🙌🏼
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COUNTDOWN TO CHARLOTTE! #ACG2022 The featured lectures are historically a high point for ACG's Annual Scientific Meeting & Postgraduate Course This year we are honored that so many distinguished speakers will address the #ACGfamily Daily schedule: acgmeetings.gi.org
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Great review⁩ by ⁦@AasmaShaukatMD⁩ of the #NordICC trial⁩ and how it falls short by misrepresenting the benefits of screening colonoscopy. ✅ out #Screening Colonoscopy: Where Do We Go From Here? | MedPage Today ⁦@medpagetodaymedpagetoday.com/opinion/sec…
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Thx to the vision of our GI society leadership and efforts of the authors including my @WRJ_VAMC colleague -Dr Heiko Pohl- we have a joint plan to address environmental sustainability. GI Multisociety Strategic Plan on Environmental Sustainability gastrojournal.org/article/S0…
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