UTSW Gastroenterology Fellowship

🌄#IBDHorizons25 is in Dallas on November 15! Join us for the latest updates in #IBD -- and an ultrasound and endo lab Make sure to reserve your FREE seat at bit.ly/45YNDvk

So proud of my former Advanced Endoscopy Fellow, #KingsleyEmelogu for presenting our case at #ACG2025 and not only earning a presidential poster but also an outstanding presenter award! Way to go, Kingsley!! #DoubleRibbon @AmCollegeGastro

So proud of @UTSWIMchief resident (& current GI applicant), #KrystalLai presenting our work on ESD defect management & its impact on delayed bleeding at #ACG2025. Incredibly high & gracious praise from @nshaheenUNC about how well she presented our project! And when asked which of our two ESD endoscopists was better, she deftly answered “I decline to answer that question” In addition to protecting my ego 😂, I’m so proud & impressed with how hard she worked on this project. Watching your trainees do great things is definitely one of the coolest parts of these meetings!

That’s a wrap for the @ASGEendoscopy Senior Fellows Course 2025! This course was meant to teach fellows on a wide variety of topics that often don’t get touched on enough in training… Ergonomics, Billing, Practice Types, Complications, Financial Planning, Career Development, and more. It was an absolute honor to be a Course Co-Director with #LisaCassani & @ShergillMD. Thank you so much to all the phenomenal faculty and ASGE staff who dedicated their time to help teach fellows. And thank you to the fellows who gave up a weekend in their busy schedules to further enhance their learning and growth. The future of GI is bright!

Had a great GI Grand Rounds this week with Dr. #SravanyaGavini giving an excellent talk on all things esophageal motility!

Today we celebrated a very special 12-year #liverversary for my amazing mentee @anouti_ahmad — a biliary atresia liver transplant recipient, patient advocate, doctor and prolific researcher. His journey inspires us all. Here’s to many more years of health and impact! 🎉 🫶💙

This past week’s GI Grand Rounds was @UTSWMedCenter Third Space Endoscopist & @Parkland Director of Endoscopy, @TomTielleman, giving a talk on everything you’d want to know about big polyps! Optical diagnosis, when to refer, when/where to tattoo/biopsy, & resection techniques!

@TomTielleman @UTSWGI @UTSWMedCenter @FujifilmUS We're thrilled to support such impactful hands-on training. It’s an honor to be part of advancing GI education and providing tools that help shape the next generation of specialists. 👏

It’s been a great experience developing the @UTSWGI fellowship sim curriculum. Always a joy teaching techniques in a safe & low stress environment. Big big thanks to @UTSWMedCenter sim center for their collaboration as well as @FujifilmUS for upgrading us with brand new scopes!!

Gen GI Fellow Teaching: Do you know the different ways to know how many bands are left on the @bsc_endoscopy banding kit? Fellows are often taught the second to last band is white, but did you know that if you lose track that you can count the knots on the bander at any time?

This week we had a phenomenal sim session on all things dilation with Drs. @TomTielleman & @BenElsberndMD. A whirlwind session covering Savary, Balloons, Pneumatic, and Stents w/ fantastic hands on! We also got to break in our fantastic new Fujifilm endoscopes in the sim lab!🎉

Congratulations are in store for @UTSWGI alum @DrPhil_Gu 🏆 winning the @AmCollegeGastro Junior Faculty Development Award! Future is bright 🤩

Fellow teaching: Here's a nice technique I picked up a few years ago from @KMonkemuller for tattooing the GI tract. Create a saline bleb, then switch to tattoo. Ensures tattoo stays in the submucosa & doesn't go to peritoneum. Especially useful in a moving target as shown below

Had a great time at @UTSWGI’s What’s New In GI 2025. So great to catch up with @tberzin and honored to have him visit us as our keynote speaker! Big big kudos to course directors #NehaPatel, @fudmanMD, @tareksawas, & @katietruittmd for organizing a great course!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

@UTSWMedCenter’s What’s New in GI 2025 was a great success with talks from @ShawnLShah, @KerryDunbarMD, @fudmanMD, @GastroEllis, @TomTielleman, @tareksawas, and many more! The highlight was a fantastic keynote talk on AI from @tberzin visiting from @BIDMC_Medicine!

Thrilled to welcome @tberzin to the 2025 UT Southwestern What’s New in GI conference Just getting started teaching us to “navigate the jagged edge” of AI in GI

Loved getting a chance to teach our fellows the ins and outs of different clips this morning during their simulation session. Clips sound super simple but every clip has its own unique features to be aware of. Big big thanks to @bsc_endoscopy, @MicroTechEndo, @STERISEndoscopy, @CONMEDCorp, & @CookMedSurg for providing samples for our fellows to learn from!

Clip this: In today’s @UTSWGI fellow’s conference, we went to Clip Class to learn about technique, indication and get hands on experience with many different types of clips led by the pros @ArielAday, @TomTielleman and @tareksawas.

Celebrating the end of a productive year with the @Cotter_Research group holiday dinner! Feeling truly blessed to be part of this amazing team and to work under the exceptional mentorship of Dr. Thomas Cotter. @TCotterMD @anouti_ahmad

This week, we had our second annual Gals of the Gut holiday party complete with an exchange of our "favorite things" from 2024. Happy Holidays from Dallas!