Lin Chang

AGA's new quality indicators for #IBS set the standard for improving patient care! Learn about these standards, which were developed to enhance diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of IBS. Don't miss this important read! 📖👇 #GIQuality

🔥#DDW2026 | Tuesday, May 5 | 3:14 pm | W196 How I Explain It: Navigating Difficult Conversations in Clinical Practice – Panel Discussion 🎙️Moderators: @AndreaShin_GI & @LinChangMD 👥Panel: @drkylestaller @eamonnquigleymd Gregory Sayuk Jill Deutsch L Dear @dbrennerGIMD

Rome V is here. Not a revolution—but a recalibration. A decade of science distilled into how we actually diagnose and manage DGBI: • Overlap is real • Culture matters • Biomarkers are coming • Brain–gut care is no longer optional The field just leveled up. #RomeV #Neurogastro

CAGA annual conference during DDW 2026. @DDWMeeting

#DDW2026 May 5 ➡️ Feasibility & Acceptability of Mindfulness-Based Group Interventions in an Integrative GI Care Setting 💫Tiffany Ju, PhD 🖊️@DrMeganOser 🖊️Suzanne Smith Kasturi Banerjee Mickeal Pugh @LinChangMD (Walter & Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health)

GERD Associated w/Greater Odds of Aspiration Pneumonia & Poor Pulmonary Outcomes in Patients w/Pulmonary Fibrosis 🌟@YazanAbboudMD 🖊️Alireza Sedarat 👥@ArnieShahMD @AlsakarnehSaqr @Ibrahim_Abboud_ @JenKolbMD @AdarshThakerMD @DannyIssaMD S Kim @raman_muthusamy 🗓️#DDW2026 May 5

Presenting at the #DDW2026 poster session on Sunday, May 3! The Impact of Sleep Disturbance on the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and #IBS 💥Michelle Binod, MD, MPH 🖊️Senior: @ArpanaChurch 🖊️@LinChangMD @TienDongMD @AndreaShin_GI @EmeranMayerMD et al

‼️Don’t miss the @AmerGastroAssn 🏋️‍♀️Battle of the Heavyweights 🏋️‍♂️ @DDWMeeting this year‼️ 🌟 Authors will debate hot 🔥 topics from recent #CPUs 📝 in @AGA_Gastro & @AGA_CGH 🗓️Monday, May 4 ⏰2.00-3.30pm CT 📍McCormick Place Convention Center 👩‍⚖️@SultanShazi and @JHashashMD

🙌#DDW2026 poster Sunday, May 3! Addressing FIT Underutilization for #CRC Screening in Asian Americans: Findings from a Patient-Centered Needs Assessment 🌟@jeemin_kwon (@uclaimchiefs) 🖊️Senior: @drfolamay 👥@selena_zhou @Jtuan24 Jennifer Bocek Jessica Calderon Sarah Meshkat

Declining Durability of Successive Lines of Advanced Therapies in #IBD 🖊️Ellen J. Spartz, MD 🖊️Senior @berkeleydoc 👥@VivyCmd Jenny Sauk @BonthalaMD @AmirGhaffariMD @GauravsyalMD ▪️#DDW2026 poster session on Sunday, May 3 ▪️12:30 pm, Level 3, Hall F2

📣@NanceeJaffeRDN is breaking it down! Making Sense of Gluten and Gluten Related Disorders: When is Gluten Free Harmful vs Helpful 🗓️Tuesday, May 5 | ⏰10:45am | 📍W196 #DDW2026 Symposium

Stop by the #DDW2026 Poster Session Sunday, May 3 Prevalence and Predictors of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (#DGBI) in Patients with #IBD 🌠@JaniceOhMD 🖊️Senior: @LinChangMD 🖊️@berkeleydoc @BonthalaMD @GauravsyalMD @AmirGhaffariMD et al

Commercially Available Wearable Devices Identify Sex & Bowel Habit Subtype-Specific Autonomic & Circadian Patterns in #IBS 🎙️@Michelle8Guan - #DDW2026 Abstract Lecture 🖊️Senior: @LinChangMD 👥@SwapnaJoshi_PhD @jbadmph @WendiLeBrettMD @RobertHirten et al 🗓️May 4, 11:15am, W183c

👏Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD (@pipethero) appointed inaugural holder of the Goodman-Luskin Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research. Her appointment marks not only a personal achievement, but also a milestone for UCLA as it continues to shape the future of #microbiome research worldwide.

A new study, lead by @LinChangMD, 🔖@AGA_CGH, found significant disparities in how #IBS, is diagnosed across sex & racial groups in the U.S., with men and Black patients considerably less likely than women and white patients to receive a formal diagnosis. uclahealth.org/news/release/s…

✨ Wonderful @AmerGastroAssn @ChineseAGA webinar on IBS tonight. Grateful to our outstanding speakers, @LinChangMD and Dr. Xiaohua Hou, to @germainegraham and the AGA team for making this collaboration possible, to moderators @GavinSong1 @IrisWangMD , and to everyone who joined us for such a thoughtful discussion. 🌍 Shared learning across cultures. #AGA #CAGA #IBS

Collaboration, leadership, and curiosity have shaped @LinChangMD’s connection to DDW since the earliest days of her career. Her DDW Legends interview explores how scholarly exchange and community continue to shape the meeting. Read more and join us at #DDW2026: ow.ly/fgLP50YIiBy (& don’t forget, prices increase on April 30!)

@NGMJournal @UCLAGIHep @DOM_UCLA @ArpanaChurch @LinChangMD Female sex hormones regulate the brain-gut connection, affecting perceived internal sensations and gut function. Link to full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nm…

👏Pamela Mattar, PhD, #UCLAGI, awarded @NIH Research Scientist Development Award (K01). Her research focuses on uncovering how the central nervous system regulates lipid metabolism in peripheral organs, and how these mechanisms become disrupted in obesity and MASH. #LiverTwitter

🚨Fascinating study ⏩#Enteric & #Sympathetic Nervous System pathways mediate #EarlyLifeStress effects on #GutMotility & #Pain: Mechanistic findings with #human correlation‼️@AGA_Gastro @AmerGastroAssn 🆕🔥 @karagm2009 @SarahANajjar @LinYungHung1 @MargolisLabNYU @NYUPainResearch🎉 #GutConnectome🔁#BrainConnectome🧠 🎯Stress in early life alters gut nerve circuits, leading to long-term changes in #Pain sensitivity & bowel function ⏩Explain why #childhood🧒adversity increases digestive disease risk💡 ✳️#EarlyLifeStress causes lasting remodeling of enteric & sympathetic circuits, leading to persistent visceral hypersensitivity & sex-dependent motility changes👏 ✅ELS defines a biologically distinct subgroup of patients⏩Influence bowel habit subtype, supporting more mechanism-informed & stratified approaches to #DGBI treatment💊 ⏩ Dive into to learn more about the most recent advances in understanding how early life experiences program the gut–brain axis From Motility to #Mood #Pain✨ #Serotonin #ENS development #EmotionalBehaviors #SSRI 🙌 👉 gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-… @AmerGastroAssn @AmCollegeGastro @my_ueg @ANMSociety @esnm_eu @GutBrainScience @INMAssociation @RomeGastroPsych @GMFHx @NatRevGastroHep @NGMJournal @unrmed @RomeFoundation @ens_development @Gutbrainmatters @IFFGD @MRC_microbiome @TARGID_KULEUVEN 👏 #NeuroGastro #GITwitter #MedTwitter #ScienceTwitter

Join us & @ChineseAGA as we explore how culture & health systems shape IBS care – especially in Asian patient populations. Hear from Drs. Song, Hou, Wu, Chey, & @LinChangMD at our next Gastro Bites webinar on Friday, April 10 at 7 p.m. EDT. Register ➡️ ow.ly/JQG650YxOsI