Upcoming Events

Louisville Gut Club:

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Kentucky Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (KSGE):

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Hyatt Regency

Louisville, Kentucky

Mission:  To further knowledge of gastrointestinal disease through the use of endoscopic instruments and to help establish standards of care and skill in gastrointestinal endoscopy.  To further the teaching of gastroenterology and learn more about new approaches and care for patients.

Agenda

12:00 PM        Registration and Lunch

1:00 PM          “IBD”

Willem de Villiers, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine

Chief, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition

University of Kentucky

1:30 PM          “Eosinophilic Esophagitis”

Nirmala Gonsalves, M.D.

Key Note Speaker

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Northwestern University

2:30 PM          Coffee Break

2:45 PM          Fellow presentations

3:30 PM          “Occupational and Environmental Liver Disease”

Matthew Cave, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Louisville

4:30 PM          Business Meeting

 5:00 PM         Adjourn

 Continuing Medical Education

The Kentucky Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 hours in category I towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.  Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Acknowledgment

The Kentucky Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy gratefully acknowledges support for this program from Procter & Gamble, Solvay, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Axcan, Prometheus, and the Kentucky Medical Association.