Interventional Gastroenterologist @bcm_gihep|VA Houston|Pancreas |Alumna @MayoClinicGIHep @AHNtoday| RT ≠ endorsements
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5 Jul 2025
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🎆
23 Jun 2025
The Houston VA Pancreas Clinic has been designated by the National Pancreas Foundation as the first Center of Excellence for pancreas care within the VA system! ow.ly/JBCN50Wf6iL #HoustonVA
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@bcm_gihep is proud that 5 out of the 7 graduating fellows chose to stay in academia and at BCM !
🎓✨ Congratulations to our amazing graduating fellows! ✨🎓
We are incredibly proud of each of you and all that you have accomplished. 💫👏
@ChuJinna @FranGudMD @BasimAlee @Disha_KumarMD @epalomerat @c_fernandes95 #Taylo_Riggs
#Graduation #GITwitter
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Jun 13
For the first time, The Liver Meeting is opening its doors to frontline clinicians including primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and advanced practice.
Liver Care for Frontline Clinicians is a one-day program taking place Nov. 7, offering up to 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits and a practical, case-based program designed to fit liver health into the workflows you already have.
Learn more and register for this program here: bit.ly/3RySMXr
(Please note: Registration for this program is separate from The Liver Meeting registration and pricing.)
#TLM26 #LiverMeeting #FrontlineClinicians #PrimaryCare #MASLD
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How do the best get to be the VERY best at medicine?
One of the best advanced endoscopists in the world is my friend Robert Bechara.
And he has a few traits that I think allowed him to be elite at his performance.
In this Substack, I talk about some concepts of superexpertise, how it develops, attach it to theory, and describe learnable habits that the VERY best have developed:
samirgrovermd.substack.com/p…
First of a series.
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High-quality ERCP care is a team sport 🏆
📅 July 11–12 | ASGE IT&T
✅ Physicians, APPs, nurses & GI techs
✅ Cannulation, sphincterotomy, stents & stone management
✅ Duodenoscope & cholangiopancreatoscopy innovations
✅ Discounted team rate
Register: asge.org/home/education-meet…
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Shifa Umar, MD retweeted
“The problem with Communication is the illusion that it happened”
Bernard Shaw
“Interruptions are part of the Job”
@MarkPochapin
@BilalMohammadMD at Emerging Leaders Session.
It is AMAZING how much “communication” never uses words!
@AmCollegeGastro
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And as the @AmCollegeGastro #LeadershipYOU wraps up - nothing but tons of #Gratitude to the #ACGFamily and the team behind the scenes who make all the magic happen !!!
Especially to the amazing @vgmehta95 for the ⭐️ seamless execution & @babel_babbles for keeping the #SoMe feeds on 🔥
Another successful year of Leadership YOU with all of my favorite people!!
A year’s worth of hard work, so many reasons to smile🥳🩺🥼
#ACGLeadershipYOU #ECLP #ELP @AmCollegeGastro
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ASGE Fellows Courses provide practical education, board preparation resources, career support and connections to help you succeed throughout fellowship and beyond. Special thanks to @Olympus_Corp, our Fellow Sponsor, for helping support GI fellows.
📍 See you at IT&T!
📅 First-Year Fellows Program; August 2-3 | Limited In-Person Availability
📅 Senior Fellows Program (2nd and 3rd Year); August 28-30
📅 Advanced Endoscopy Fellows Course; September 19-20
Reserve your seat today—space is limited.
hubs.ly/Q04jYjX-0
#GITwitter #GIFellows #Gastroenterology #GIEducation #EndoscopyTraining
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Insightful Grand Rounds by @PrasadIyerMD at @bcm_gihep on innovation in the management of Barrett’s esophagus and Esophageal adenocarcinoma
🔹 Discussion on emerging technologies
🔹 Risk stratification
🔹 Advances in early detection and methylated DNA markers
@MayoClinicGIHep
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Shifa Umar, MD retweeted
Please check out the latest @ACGCRJ podcast on -"EUS-RFA for symptomatic insulinoma"
Thank you @LanreADENIRANFF for joining & @shailsingh for expertise ! It was incredible experience recording the podcast.
New ACGCRJ podcast 🎙️
⚡️EUS-guided RFA for symptomatic insulinoma as an alternative to surgery in a high-risk elderly patient!
🎧 Podcast: tinyurl.com/ywz3xesx
📰 Article: tinyurl.com/3vt7ysz7
#Medtwitter
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Honored and truly happy to be part of the Third Space community in Texas. Grateful to learn and collaborate with such an outstanding faculty and inspiring colleagues. Special thanks to @EndoscopyOthman, Phillip Ge, all the directors, and everyone involved for the warm welcome and incredible experience.
@UTHealthGastro
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Shifa Umar, MD retweeted
🥂Congratulations to Drs. @BenClickMD & @BilalMohammadMD on being named @CUDeptMedicine Scholars! Dr. Click was recognized as the Christie-Gee Family DOM Scholar & Dr. Bilal was honored as the Mesinger-Edmundowicz DOM Scholar! @JChristieMD
ALT Dr. Mohammad Bilal was honored as the Mesinger-Edmundowicz DOM Scholar for his innovative work advancing minimally invasive, organ-sparing endoscopic resection techniques for gastrointestinal tract neoplasia.
ALT Dr. Benjamin Click was recognized as the Christie-Gee Family DOM Scholar for his project focused on reducing inflammatory burden prior to surgical resection in Crohn’s disease through advanced imaging analytics and multicenter research collaboration.
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May 30
Grateful for the opportunity to teach and learn at the @TexasIEG 6th Annual Transluminal & Third Space Endoscopy Workshop
⭐️A premier course in third-space and transluminal endoscopy
🛠️ Expert faculty-led hands-on training
🎓Outstanding group of motivated learners
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May 29
Showcasing Colonic ESD and G POEM
Endoscopic mastery by @GiJawaid and @KeihanianTara with expert moderation from @MahamHayatMD
6th @TexasIEG Transluminal & Third Space Endoscopy Workshop
#Thirdspaceendoscopy
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🚀 Kicking off the 6th @TexasIEG Transluminal & Third Space Endoscopy Workshop with an EndoFLIP and POEM demonstration featuring @ReenaChokshiMD & @EndoscopyOthman 🌟
Looking forward to a phenomenal course filled with innovation, hands-on learning, and engaging discussions. 👏
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May 28
Take your ERCP skills further at ERCP Bootcamp, July 11–12 at ASGE IT&T, led by Course Directors @neilRsharmaMD & @ShyamTMD. Through hands-on training, case-based learning and expert-led instruction, you’ll gain practical strategies for biliary strictures, pancreatic duct stenting, advanced cholangioscopy, stone management and more. Strengthen decision-making, improve team coordination and walk away with techniques you can apply immediately in practice. Register three or more from the same unit to take advantage of the team discount! hubs.ly/Q04g8PJg0. #GITwitter
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#CGH4ALL
⚡ “Incidental” Barrett’s esophagus is more common than expected
🌎 Similar rates to screening exams
📈 Longer BE segments highest dysplasia detection rate
🧩 Raises important questions about BE screening strategies
➡️ Read more in @AGA_CGH📎 doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.0…
Reported by @arianapg
@JenKolbMD @nshaheenUNC @Scopesdoc @MouenKhashab @gastrowala @SighPichamol @HilarHolzy
@PhilipOkaforMD @AasmaShaukatMD @SultanMahmoodMD @shifaumarMD @tberzin @KMonkemuller @joakirodriguez
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May 28
Excited for the 6th Annual Transluminal & Third Space Endoscopy Workshop — a world-class educational experience bringing together leading experts, cutting-edge techniques, live cases & hands-on training
Link to register ✅
endoscopyonair.com/event/tex…
May 28
Join us live on Endoscopy On Air for the 6th Annual Third Space & Transluminal Endoscopy Workshop — featuring four simultaneous procedure rooms with cutting-edge live endoscopy cases performed by national and international expert faculty. Live cases include:
1- E-POEM using Bipolar Knife
2- Z-POEM
3- G-POEM
4- Rectal ESD with GelPOINT Platform
5- Right-sided colonic ESD using stabilization platform
6-Esophageal ESD with gravity-assisted technique
7-Gastric ESD
8-Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty
9-C-TIF performed live from the OR
10- Pedunculated colon polyp resection with Spyderblade
Don’t miss one of the premier advanced endoscopy educational events in the United States, highlighting the latest innovations in ESD, third-space endoscopy, bariatric endoscopy, and transluminal therapeutics.
endoscopyonair.com/event/tex…
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Shifa Umar, MD retweeted
Honored to have been visiting professor at Baylor yesterday!
Thoroughly enjoyed giving GI grand rounds on how medical technology comes together (and how GIs can help) meeting all the faculty and fellows 🥳
Thank you @EndoscopyOthman for inviting me to @bcmhouston! #gitwitter
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Simple but very effective method for removing proximally migrated biliary stents!
#SamTanner @UMichInterEndo @UMichGIHep @umichmedicine @ASGEendoscopy
May 19
Samuel Tanner and Allison R. Schulman describe "Retrieval of a proximally migrated biliary stent using a novel grasp-and-traction technique" in this Original Article. videogie.org/article/S2468-4…
#GITwitter
@allie_schulman
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Shifa Umar, MD retweeted
Outstanidng morning session by @ChowdhryMonica at #WISE2026
✅ How to tackle complications during general endoscopy
@WVU_GI
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