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TMC Digestive Diseases Center 15th Annual Frontiers in Digestive Diseases Symposium

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Date: Saturday, March 9, 2024, 8 am- 3 pm
Location: 
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
7200 Cambridge, Houston, Texas 77030

The 2024 symposium theme is "Frontiers in GI Cell Biology: Crosstalk and Communication."

"Niche Regulation of Gastrointestinal Stem Cell Dynamics"
Linda C. Samuelson, Ph.D., Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

"A nervous bowel is a happy bowel . . . Making sense of Hirschsprung disease"
Allison L. Speer, MD, FACS, FAAP (2017 Pilot Feasibility Awardee), Associate Professor, Pediatric Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

"Engineering GI tissues from human pluripotent stem cells to study development and disease"
James M. Wells, Ph.D., Director for Research, Division of Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

"Gut epithelial cells: interpreters of gut microbiome/immune interactions"
Rodney D. Newberry, M.D., Dr. Nicholas V. Costrini Professor of Gastroenterology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

"Microbial regulation of intestinal epithelial hormones"
Sara Di Rienzi, Ph.D. (2017 Pilot Feasibility Awardee), Assistant Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û

"Unraveling mucus microbe interactions in the intestine"
Mindy Engevik Ph.D.. Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Contact Information: Sara Tristan, DDC Administrator, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û, 7200 Cambridge, A8.136, Houston, Texas 77030, escamill@bcm.edu, (713) 798-3478.

 

Accreditation/Credit Designation Statements

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This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Creditsâ„¢.

Opportunity for Physician and Physician Assistant QI Poster Authors and Co-Authors to earn Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4 Credits.
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  • (2019) Infection and Injury as a Precursor to GI and Liver Cancer
  • (2018) Frontiers of the Microbiome Gut-Brain Axis
  • (2017) Emerging Significance of Bile Acids in Digestive and Liver Diseases
  • (2016)  Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine in Digestive and Liver Disease
  • (2015) Frontiers in IBD 2015
  • (2014) The Gut Microbiome in GI Health & Disease
  • (2013) Stem Cells in GI Health & Disease
  • (2011) Epigenetics in GI Health and Disease
  • (2010) Infection in GI Health and Disease
  • (2009) Inflammation and GI Research
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