FACULTY

Mihir Wagh

MD, FACG, FASGE

Course Director

Associate Professor of Medicine

Head, Endoscopic Surgery and Tissue Apposition

University of Colorado Interventional Endoscopy

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Aurora, CO

Paul Menard-Katcher, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Interim Luminal Section Chief

Associate GI Fellowship Program Director

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Aurora, CO

GUEST FACULTY

Fatih Aslan, MD

Koc University

Istanbul, Turkey

Alberto Baptista, MD

Delfos Hospital

Endos Medicina

Barcelona, Spain

Kenneth Chang, MD

University of California - Irvine

Irvine, CA

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FACULTY

Learning Objectives:

Operate various newer endoscopic devices and accessories for endoscopic surgery.
Compare endoscopic therapies in appropriate patients as alternatives to more invasive surgical options.
Understand & minimize adverse events related to advanced procedures in interventional endoscopy.
Describe indications, contra-indications & techniques to optimize success in performing newer interventional endoscopic procedures such as: POEM, ESD, Endoscopic Anti-reflux Therapies, Endoscopic Suturing and Interventional EUS.
Analyze best endoscopic treatment strategies for: Achalasia, GERD, obesity and Early Gastrointestinal Neoplasia.

Steven Edmundowicz, MD

Hazem Hammad, MD

Shelby Sullivan, MD

Mohamed Othman, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Stavros Stavropoulos, MD

NYU-Winthrop University Hospital

Mineola, NY

Christopher Thompson, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

FACULTY

Mihir Wagh

MD, FACG, FASGE

Course Director

Paul Menard-Katcher, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

GUEST FACULTY

Fatih Aslan, MD

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Alberto Baptista, MD

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Kenneth Chang, MD

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University of California - Irvine

Irvine, CA

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FACULTY

Steven Edmundowicz, MD

Hazem Hammad, MD

Shelby Sullivan, MD

Mohamed Othman, MD

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Stavros Stavropoulos, MD

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Christopher Thompson, MD

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Sachin Wani, MD