Conference Schedules
Spring 2026
| Date | Day | Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 1/7/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Lupu/Lee |
| 1/8/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Stomach – H.pylori: epi, pathophy, dx and tx | Gupta |
| 1/14/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: Selected Topics in Hereditary GI Cancer | Sandler |
| 1/15/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Malnutrition in IBD | Gray |
| 1/21/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Arora/Green |
| 1/22/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Neuroendocrine tumors of the GI Tract | Greenberg |
| 1/28/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Moon/Gainey |
| 1/29/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | New Concepts in the Treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis | Redd |
| 2/4/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Iyengar/Gloria |
| 2/5/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Radiology Part 2 | Olinger |
| 2/11/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Reed/Byers |
| 2/12/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | immune checkpoint inhibitor colitis (ICI colitis) | Karl |
| 2/18/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Duke/UNC Grand Rounds | Byron Cryer, MD |
| 2/19/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Pancreatic Cancer | Gainey |
| 2/25/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Barnes/Rosenstein |
| 2/26/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Pathophysiology of Colorectal Neoplasia | Culpepper |
| 3/4/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Shore/Wilson |
| 3/5/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GI manifestations of mast cell disease | Aljabban |
| 3/11/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Herfarth/Power |
| 3/12/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/18/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/19/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Chronic Opioids and Opioid Use Disorder in Gastroenterology | Lupu |
| 3/25/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: Visiting ACG Speaker “Functional Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis: One Disease or Two?” | Brian Lacy, MD |
| 3/26/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | IBD & Inflammatory – Extraintestinal Manifestations of IBD | Siebrasse |
| 4/1/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Ritaccio/Aljabban |
| 4/2/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Hereditary GI Cancer Syndromes | Barlowe |
| 4/8/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | QI Project Presentation | Multiple Fellows |
| 4/9/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Endoscopic Management of Benign Gallbladder Disease | Shore |
| 4/15/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Siebrasse/Culpepper |
| 4/16/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | What’s new in hepatology? New and upcoming AASLD guidances | Green |
| 4/22/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Jain/Gloria |
| 4/23/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Vascular disorders of the gastrointestinal tract | Iyengar |
| 4/29/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Haydek/Lee |
| 4/30/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Microscopic Colitis | Russin |
| 5/6/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | DDW | |
| 5/7/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | DDW | |
| 5/13/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Karl/Barlowe |
| 5/14/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Therapies | Byers |
| 5/20/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Ground Rounds: TBD | Barritt |
| 5/21/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Geriatrics – changes in GI functions with aging | Power |
| 5/27/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Gangarosa/Manudhane |
| 5/28/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Endoscopic Management of Benign Gallbladder Disease | Wilson |
| 6/3/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Redd/Lupu |
| 6/4/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Gastrointestinal Problems in the Pediatric Population | Lee |
| 6/10/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Russin/Byers |
| 6/11/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Pancreatic Cysts and Masses | Gloria |
| 6/17/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: TBD | TBD |
| 6/18/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Systemic Disorders Affecting the GI Tract | Rosenstein |
| 6/24/2026 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Cotton/Power |
| 6/25/2026 | Thurs | 4:30pm | BREAK |
Fall 2025
| Date | Day | Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 9/10/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Long/Culpepper |
| 9/11/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Gastric Cancer and Dysplasia | Grimm |
| 9/17/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Green/Gloria |
| 9/18/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Health Care Maintenance in IBD | Haydek |
| 9/24/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: Endoscopy Overview | Hathorn |
| 9/25/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | General overview/introduction of endoscopy ergonomics | Stacy Markwell (VS) |
| 10/1/25 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Barritt/Aljabban |
| 10/2/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Liver Transplant Rejection | Shroff |
| 10/8/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Gupta/Barlowe |
| 10/9/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Hepatitis B for the Practicing Clinician | Shah |
| 10/15/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Shore/Gainey |
| 10/16/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Alcohol Use Disorder in Chronic Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation | Deutsch-Link |
| 10/22/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: How to Feel Good Now: A novel approach to treating disorders of gut-brain interaction and other functional disorders. | Jennifer Franklin, PhD (VS) |
| 10/23/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | ACG | |
| 10/29/35 | Wed | 7:30am | ACG | |
| 10/30/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma | Shaheen |
| 11/5/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: Topic TBD | William Chey, MD (VS) |
| 11/6/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Small Bowel Tumers | Gangarosa |
| 11/12/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Shah/Iyengar |
| 11/13/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Radiology Part 1 | Kristen Olinger |
| 11/19/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Siebrasse/Byers |
| 11/20/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome | Scholand |
| 11/26/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Thanksgiving | |
| 11/27/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Thanksgiving | |
| 12/3/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: GI Alpha-gal Syndrome | McGill |
| 12/4/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GERD | Cotton |
| 12/10/25 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Hudson/Russin |
| 12/11/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Radiology Part 2 | Kristen Olinger |
| 12/17/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Deutsch-Link/Wilson |
| 12/18/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Noninvasive Markers of Disease Activity in IBD | Ritaccio |
| 12/24/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Holiday | |
| 12/25/25 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Holiday | |
| 12/31/25 | Wed | 7:30am | Holiday | |
| 1/1/26 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Holiday |
Back to Basics 2025
| Date | Day | Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 7/2/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Meet & Greet with Faculty | – |
| 7/3/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | – Break – | Orientation Week |
| 7/9/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | IBD 101 – Part 1 | Long/Jain |
| 7/10/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Esophageal Motility Part 1 | Arora |
| 7/16/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | IBD 101 – part 2 | Barnes/Herfarth |
| 7/17/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Foreign Body Management | Hudson |
| 7/23/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Fluoroscopy Training | Carleton Lincoln |
| 7/23/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Board Review Series – Senior Fellows ONLY | Jain |
| 7/24/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis | Shroff |
| 7/30/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Abnormal LFTs | Barritt |
| 7/31/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Esophageal Motility part 2 | Arora |
| 8/6/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Intro to IBS | Dorn |
| 8/7/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Acute Liver Failure | Shah |
| 8/13/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Moderate Sedation | Gupta |
| 8/14/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Working with Anesthesia | Cobb/Mendelaw |
| 8/20/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Intro to ERCP | Baron |
| 8/21/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Colonoscopy Basics | McGill |
| 8/27/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GI Bleeding Part I | Greenberg |
| 8/28/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Constipation | Scarlett |
| 9/3/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GI Bleeding Part 2 | Greenberg |
| 9/4/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | PEG Tubes | Hudson |
Spring 2025
| Date | Day | Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 1/1/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | HOLIDAY | |
| 1/2/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | HOLIDAY | |
| 1/8/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Moon/Siebrasse |
| 1/9/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Hepatology: Post-Liver Transplant Complications | Fix |
| 1/15/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Russin/Aljabban |
| 1/16/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Chronic Opioids and Opioid Use Disorder in Gastroenterology | Deutsch-Link |
| 1/22/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: Inclusive Excellence in Healthcare and its Barriers | Scarlett |
| 1/23/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Autoimmune Pancreatitis | Gangarosa |
| 1/29/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Barritt/Ritaccio |
| 1/30/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | The surgical and endoscopic management of gastric outlet obstruction | Canakis |
| 2/5/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Shah/Iyengar |
| 2/6/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | ESD in the West | Greenberg |
| 2/12/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Darlington/Gainey |
| 2/13/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus Overview | Redd |
| 2/19/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds – Global Health in GI | Mahoro/Dougherty |
| 2/20/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Malignancy – GI Tumors | Barlowe |
| 2/26/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Fix/Prakash |
| 2/27/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Small Bowel and Colon – Hereditary Polyposis Syndrome | Culpepper |
| 3/5/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Hudson/Muratore |
| 3/6/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Bile Duct Injury | Russin |
| 3/12/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/13/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/19/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Green/Barlowe |
| 3/20/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) | Darlington |
| 3/26/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds – Treat to Target in IBD: A False Promise | Haydek |
| 3/27/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | IBD & Inflammatory – Disorders of the Pouch | Ritaccio |
| 4/2/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Herfarth/Lee |
| 4/3/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | primary sclerosing cholangitis | Natarajan |
| 4/9/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Deutsch-Link/Gloria |
| 4/10/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (Inpatient Complications of Cirrhosis) | Lupu |
| 4/16/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds:The Modern Era of Combination Therapy | Marla Dubinsky |
| 4/17/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Complications and Treatment of Fibrosis in CD | Aljabban |
| 4/23/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Natarajan/Lupu |
| 4/24/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Nutrition – Parenteral nutrition (TPN) | Muratore |
| 4/30/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Reed/Siebrasse |
| 5/1/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Fatty Liver Disease | Green |
| 5/7/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | DDW | |
| 5/8/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | DDW | |
| 5/14/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Jain/Russin |
| 5/15/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Acute Pancreatic Fluid Collections & Management | Gainey |
| 5/21/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Barlowe/Culpepper |
| 5/22/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Geriatrics – Common Geriatric Diseases in GI | Shore |
| 5/28/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | QI Reporting | Multiple Fellows |
| 5/29/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | liver disorders in pregnancy | Lee |
| 6/4/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Gray/Green |
| 6/5/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Miscellaneous – GI Disorders in Women and Pregnancy | Siebrasse |
| 6/11/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Barnes/Shore |
| 6/12/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Hepatology – Liver Masses & Cysts | Gloria |
| 6/18/2025 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds – Endoscopic Bariatric and Metabolic Therapy (EBMT): The Intersection between Endoscopy and Obesity | Hathorn |
| 6/19/2025 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Stomach – Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome | Iyengar |
Fall 2024
| Date | Day | Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 9/11/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Long/Gainey |
| 9/12/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Esophageal Motility Part 2 | Arora |
| 9/18/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Lupu/Natarajan |
| 9/19/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Capsule Endoscopy Interpretation | Isaacs |
| 9/25/24 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Hathorn/Muratore |
| 9/26/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Post surgical anatomy | Hathorn |
| 10/2/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds: Emerging therapies for gastroesophageal reflux disease: diet, drugs, and devices.” | Cotton |
| 10/3/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Understanding MASH biology through the lens of human clinical trials | Arun Sanyal |
| 10/9/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Jain/Culpepper/ |
| 10/10/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus Overview | Shaheen |
| 10/16/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Shore/Ritaccio |
| 10/17/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Metabolic Causes of Abdominal Pain | Dougherty |
| 10/23/24 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Shah/Darlington |
| 10/24/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GI Radiology – Part 1 | McGinty |
| 10/30/24 | Wed | 7:30am | ACG | |
| 10/31/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | ACG | |
| 11/6/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Grand Rounds -Colorectal Cancer 2024: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and What’s new in Screening | Gangarosa |
| 11/7/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | GI Radiology – Part 2 | McGinty |
| 11/13/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Journal Club | Scholand/Green |
| 11/14/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Fecal Incontinence | Scarlett |
| 11/20/24 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Barnes/Gloria |
| 11/21/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Hepatology – autoimmune hepatitis | Shroff |
| 11/27/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Thanksgiving | |
| 11/28/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Thanksgiving | |
| 12/4/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Clinical Case Conference | Iyengar/Russin |
| 12/5/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Appropriate biopsying & tattooing (especially lesions concerning for malignancy) | Kroch |
| 12/11/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Delivering and Digesting Feedback: Nourishing the Next Generation of Gastroenterologists | Gupta |
| 12/12/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Eosinophilic Esophagitis | Reed |
| 12/18/24 | Wed | 7:30am | M&M | Scarlett/Natarajan |
| 12/19/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Updates in Hepatobiliary Malignancies | Moon |
| 12/25/24 | Wed | 7:30am | Holiday | |
| 12/26/24 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Holiday |
Back to Basics 2024
| Date | Day | Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 7/3/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | Meet & Greet with Faculty | – |
| 7/4/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | – Break – | July 4th Holiday |
| 7/10/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | Fluoroscopy Training | Carleton Lincoln |
| 7/11/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Intro to IBS | Dorn |
| 7/17/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | IBD 101 – part 1 | Long / Jain |
| 7/18/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Abnormal LFTs | Barritt |
| 7/24/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | IBD 101 – part 2 | Barnes / Herfarth |
| 7/25/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Esophageal Motility part 1 | Arora |
| 7/31/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | PEG Tubes | Peery |
| 8/1/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis | Shroff |
| 8/7/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | Foreign Body Management | Mahoro |
| 8/8/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Acute Liver Failure | Shah |
| 8/14/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | Intro to ERCP | Baron |
| 8/14/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | Liver Board Review – Senior Fellows | Shroff |
| 8/15/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Moderate Sedation | Gupta |
| 8/21/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | Working with Anesthesia | Kathryn Cobb |
| 8/22/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Colon Cancer Screening | McGill |
| 8/28/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | GI bleeding part 1 | Grimm |
| 8/29/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Constipation | Scarlett |
| 9/4/2024 | Wed | 7:30am | GI bleeding part 2 | Grimm |
| 9/5/2024 | Thurs | 4:30pm | Work-up of Diarrhea | Long |
GI Grand Rounds / CCC / Journal Club / M&M – held on Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30 AM – currently virtual only unless otherwise specified.
Core Curriculum Conference – held on Thursdays from 4:30-5:30 PM – currently virtual only unless otherwise specified.
A reminder of the upcoming week’s conferences is sent out by Tiffany Durham at the beginning of every week.