Maria T. Abreu

Design thinking isn't just for tech. It's a framework for solving complex problems - including the ones that hold women back in medicine. Join us at @DDWMeeting for the @AmerGastroAssn Women's Committee Symposium: Applying Design Thinking to Advancing Equity for Women @MccutchenDr @IBD_Afzali #CuckooChoudhary #SarahBlutt 📅 Sunday, May 3 · 10–11:30 am 📍 Room W184bc, McCormick Place And stay for the full weekend of Women in GI programming: 🔹 8 am — Gastroenterology Women's Coalition 🔹 1 pm — WExLC Alumni Network (RSVP) 🔹 Mon May 4, 11:45 am — Beacon of Hope Luncheon (RSVP) 👊 #DDW2026 #WomenInGI #AGAWomenInGI #WomenInMedicine

⏳Counting down the days to #DDW2026 🚨Don’t miss the #IBD 🌟 EduSocial event Sat May 2nd ! 🤝Join 💎 Faculty, Advocates & Supporters to collaborate & improve patient-centered IBD care ! 📲Places limited, Register👉🏽bit.ly/3Q0jpDP

🌸Go @AmCollegeGastro #ACGFamily IBD team “Inflamed But Determined” 🏁Finishing strong the #CherryBlossom 10milers! TY @AmyOxentenkoMD & #KathrynDriggers for organizing #JudyTrieu for the cool tattoo & @ReezwanaCMD Happy Run-iversary, our 1st half marathon together was in 2014!

AI came up with a diagnosis in under a minute that the students missed. That’s powerful. But if the machine thinks for us… how do the next generation of doctors learn to think at all? This is the tension we need to solve. More in the video below 👇

#APPs: Apply or nominate yourself or a deserving colleague for the AGA-@Pfizer Beacon of Hope Awards for Gender and Health #Equity! 🔗 Applications due Feb. 9. ow.ly/XicX50Y1MHA @AmyStewartNP

This year marks the 5th anniversary of @ScrubsNHeels Women’s Leadership Conference. Yes, it’s about leadership. But it’s also about so much more. It’s a weekend that belongs to us. Permission to show up fully. Space to learn, reflect, and grow, without performing. A setting designed to inspire, not exhaust. Every year I learn something new. But what stays with me are the women. The conversations. The shared experiences. The reminder that none of us are doing this alone. If you’ve never attended, this is the year. Come see what the fuss is about. Come for the leadership. Stay for the community. All women in GI. You belong here. And yes it’s AI & I’m learning so cut me some slack 🫠

Happy New Year from @MASTprogram! We are looking forward to 2026. Exciting treatments and discoveries in #SIBO, #IMO, #ISO, #IBS and the #microbiome 1. Phase IIB study on new drug for IBS-D that specifically treats hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide on breath test. Starting in 2 weeks. 2. Advancement of anti-methanogen program to hopefully be able to start human trials of new drug in early 2027. 3. Development of drug to treat anti-vinculin #IBS patients. Great progress here! 4. Further understanding of #SIBO in multi-omics approach. Other treatment approaches possible. 5. Publish the studies showing the critical importance of measuring three gases on breath testing. That's coming out soon. 6. Data from the pediatric #REIMAGINE study will begin to emerge. 7. New bacterial relationships in obesity, liver disease and metabolic disorders (just wait and see) from #REIMAGINE and possibly new drug here. 8. Many others...stay tuned.

We will celebrate all year And at ACG 2026 in Nashville, I have been promised celebratory hot chicken

Kicking off our virtual @AmerGastroAssn Regional Workshop with @barbarahjung discussing “Leading from Within” Big takeaways: ✨ Lead yourself first ✨ Listen before you lead ✨ Influence > authority ✨ Find alignment, not control ✨ Shared goals > “us vs them” Leadership starts with self-awareness and grows through connection. @LorenRabinowitz

It is a wrap 🎬 on an incredible #ACG2025 in Phoenix!👏🏼 A deep appreciation to all @AmCollegeGastro members for allowing me to serve you this year!🙏🏻 Together, we will continue to rise like a #Phoenix!🐦‍🔥

Well deserved honor for a trailblazer in gastroenterology. The 1st woman at Mayo but certainly not the last. Perfect timing as we celebrate ACG meeting @AmerGastroAssn

Proud of this team of physicians and scientists inspired to create a world free of IBD

We're excited to share that three AGA members were selected as 2025 @ShermanPrize recipients for their outstanding work in #IBD. Congratulations @MichaelKappel12, Dr. Scott Snapper and @oridamas on this honor! 🎉 ow.ly/uMAi50WYeMz

It was about time! Dr Damas fires on all cylinders—great clinician, scientist, mentor, friend. I couldn’t be prouder to know her

A great way to address impt ❓’s in #IBD at a time when NIH funding is difficult. Gather preliminary data and make an impact on the field. @DrPhil_Gu

#Diet and #nutrition matter in the management of #ulcerativecolitis❗ @GIdietitian, @ibddocmaria, @PujaKhannaMD & @AndresYarur highlight 5⃣ things you need to know: ✅ Nutrition plays an important role at every disease step ✅ Diet can complement medical and surgical therapy ✅ A high-fiber, low-fat diet might improve symptoms and quality of life in patients with remission ✅ Belly fat is linked with worsened outcomes ✅ Adequate nutrition support a healthy pregnancy and improve fetal outcomes @Medscape: loom.ly/KEPFc5k

The most important thing we do is to pass on the tradition. Felicidades to everyone who made it through GI training. Now pls join the @AmerGastroAssn!