The University of Louisville Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition made a far-reaching impact at the 2016 Digestive Disease Week conference, held May 22-24, 2016 in San Diego.

The Gastroparesis group presented a total of nine posters and two talks, while the Liver group will give seven posters and two talks.

Also, the UofL Gastroparesis group presented the posters and seven talks at the International Gastrointestinal Electrophysiology Society (IGES) satellite meeting, also in San Diego in conjunction with the DDW2016 event.

The talks presented by the UofL group and its associates include:

DDW2016

Gastroparesis Group

• Dr. Henry Parkman - "Early Satiety and Postprandial Fullness in Gastroparesis. Characteristics using the GpR2 Database"
• Dr. Pankaj Pasricha - "Clinical Outcomes and Neuropathological Features of Patient with Chronic Nausea and Vomiting are Similar in patients with or Without Delayed Gastric Emptying"

Liver Group

• Dr. Irina Kirpich - "Dietary fat rich in linoleic acid exacerbates EtOH-induced inflammasome activation and liver injury in mouse models of alcoholic liver disease"
• Dr. Craig McClain - "Not Written in Stone: Modifying Hepatic Fibrosis"

IGES Symposium Talks

• Dr. Patrick McKenzie - "The Effect of Gastrointestinal Electrical Stimulation in Patients with The Symptoms of Gastroparesis Combined With Pancreato-Biliary Disorders"
• Dr. Andy Patel - "Autonomic And Enteric Responses to Temporary Gastric Electrical Stimulation"
• Dr. Ammar Hassan "Clinical Outcome of Diabetic Versus Idiopathic Gastroparesis Undergoing Gastric Electrical Stimulation"
• Dr. Nikhil Kadle - "Energy of Gastric Electrical Stimulation Interacts with Cajal, Mast and S100 Cells to Predict GI Symptom Outcome"
• Dr. Shifat Ahmed - "Comparison of Neurohormonal Changes with Gastroparesis in Response to Temporary Gastric Electrical Stimulation"
• Dr. Shifat Ahmed - "Is the Electrogastrogram a Clinically Useful Tool?"
• Dr. Imad Jaafar - "Medium and Long Term Outcome of Symptoms using Gastric Electrical Stimulation with Temporary GES as a Screening Tool"

Posters

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• Is IVIG Therapy Beneficial in Reducing Utilisations of Healthcare Resources in Patients with Drug and Device Refractory Symptoms of Gastroparesis? - Munish Ashat, Amanda Lewis, Hammad Liaquat, Chirag M. Patel, Abigail Stocker, Lindsay McElmurray, Teresa Cutts, Thomas L. Abell
• Dysregulation of Hormones Insulin and Amylin are Associated with the Symptoms of Bloating and Anorexia in Diabetic Gastroparesis Patients - Kedar, Archana; Ahmed, Shifat; Patel, Chirag ; Stocker, Abigail; McElmurray, Lindsay; Hughes, Michael; Beatty, Karen; Cutts, Teresa; Mohammad, Mohammad; Falkner, Cam; Abell, Thomas
• Clinical Outcome of Diabetic Vs. Idiopathic Gastroparesis Undergoing Gastric Electrical Stimulation - A Hassan, A Stocker, L McElmurray, K Beatty, M Hughes, C Pinkson, G Brock, H Rashed, A Kedar, T Abell
• Comparison of Mucosal Neuronal Density with Full Thickness Biopsies, Symptoms and Gastric Emptying in Patients with Symptoms of Gastroparesis - Patel C, Ahmed S, Ashat M, Stocker A, Kennedy W, Wendelschafer-Crabb G, Yang X, Munoz A, Fraig M, McElmurray L, Pinkston C, Brock G, Hughes M, Kedar A, Beatty K, Abell T
• Is The EGG a Clinically Useful Tool? - Ahmed, Shifat; Ramos, Steven; Patel, Chirag; Ashat, Munish; McElmurray, Lindsay; Hughes, Michael; Miller, Ed; Stocker, Abigail; Pinkston, Christina; Brock, Guy; Lahr, Chris; Abell, Thomas
• Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Drug and Device Refractory Patients With the Symptoms of Gastroparesis-an Open Label Study - Amanda Lewis, Munish Ashat, Hammad Liaquat, Chirag M. Patel, Abigail Stocker, Lindsay McElmurray, Vettai Vedanarayanan, Kaartik Soota,  Archana Kedar, Thomas L. Abell
• Comparison of Neurohormonal Changes With Gastroparesis in Response to Temporary Gastric Electrical Stimulation - Ahmed, Shifat; Liu, Nanlong; Kadle, Nikhil; Patel, Chirag; Ashat, Munish; Stocker, Abigail; McElmurray, Lindsay; Hughes, Michael; Beatty, Karen; Falkner, Keith; Kedar, Archana; Abell, Thomas
• Medium and Long Term Outcome of Symptoms using Gastric Electrical Stimulation with Temporary GES as a Screening Tool - Imad Jaafar, Endashaw Omer, Hammad Liaquat, Abigail Stocker, Lindsay McElmurray, Siva Cheetirala, Malathi Perugula, Ed Miller, Michael Hughes, Thomas Abell
• Energy of Gastric Electrical Stimulation Interacts with Cajal, Mast and S100 Cells to Predict Symptom Outcome - Kadle, Nikhil; Pinkston, Christina; Brock, Guy; Yang, Xiu; Stocker, Abigail; McElmurray, Lindsay; Munoz, Angel; Cheetira, Siva; Perugula, Malathi; Hughes, Michael; Fraig, Mostafa; Starkebaum, Warren; Abell, Thomas
• Lipotherapy with Fusogenic Liposomes Protects Liver in a Model of Rat Partial Ischemia Reperfusion Injury - Jane C. Frimodig, Philip Bauer, Paul J. Matheson, Amy Matheson, Claudio Maldonado, Craig J. McClain
• Serum TRAIL levels inversely correlate with MELD scores in severe alcoholic hepatitis patients - Leila Gobejishvili, Vatsalya Vatsalya, Mohammad K. Mohammad, Shirish Barve, Craig J. McClain
• MELD scores correlate with survival and circulating markers of microbial translocation, danger signals, and inflammatory markers: sCD163 predicts survival in patients with alcoholic hepatitis - Banishree Saha, Adeyinka C. Adejumo, Karen Kodys, Patrick Lowe, Donna Catalano, Donna Giansiracusa, Trang Vo, Aimee Kroll-Desrosiers, Bruce A. Barton, Natalia Nieto, Arthur McCullough, Laura E. Nagy, Craig J. McClain, Mack Mitchell, Gyongyi Szabo
• Association of serum zinc with markers of progression of liver injury in very heavy drinking alcohol dependent patients - Vatsalya Vatsalya, Nanlong Liu, Hammad Liaquat, Vijay Ramchandani, Craig J. McClain
• Dietary fat rich in linoleic acid exacerbates ethanol-induced inflammasome activation and liver injury in a mouse model of alcoholic liver disease - Irina Kirpich, Wenke Feng, Craig J. McClain
• Acrolein, a lipid-derived endogenous aldehyde and environmental/dietary pollutant, disrupts barrier integrity in intestinal epithelial cells - Wei-Yang Chen, Jingwen Zhang, Shirish Barve, Craig J. McClain, Swati Joshi-Barve