9th Annual Gastroenterology & Hepatology Symposium

Gastroenterology & Hepatology 9th Annual Symposium is organized by University of California Irvine (UCI) and would be held during Feb 24 - 25, 2017 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event are basically for physicians.

This CME course curriculum covers the latest management options and endoscopic and surgical treatments in the following areas, bariatrics, biliary, colon and rectal, hepatology, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), pancreas and upper GI tract. This CME conference has been approved with a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Objectives :
• Apply the new advances in the treatment of obesity
• Improve quality measures of ademona detection rate, complete polypectomy cecal intubation rate and withdrawal time
• Establish reporting mechanisms to CMS-imposed colonoscopy quality measures to increase incentives and reduce interval cancers
• Analyze and evaluate the most important new developments in upper GI diseases
• Interpret accurate staging and relevant developments in the treatment of various biliary and pancreatic diseases
• Analyze controversial issues in the multidisciplinary management of adult IBD to formulate optimal therapeutic algorithms
• Identify current surgical options for patients with IBD and plan appropriate postoperative therapeutic management
• Discuss integration of endoscopic procedures within the practice of hepatology
• Discuss appropriate use and monitoring during treatment of hepatitis C.