American Journal of Gastroenterology Author Podcasts

Co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG interviews associate editor Christopher Ma, MD, MPH about post-endoscopy care for food bolus impaction. (08:41)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG interviews William D. Chey, MD, FACG about the updated AGA-ACG Guideline on the management of chronic idiopathic constipation. (25:41)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Jasmohan S. Bajaj, MD, MS, FACG interviews Alexandra Shingina, MD, MSc about the recently published ACG Guideline on the diagnosis and management of acute liver failure. (18:20)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG interviews Alberto Rubio-Tapia, MD about the updated ACG Guideline on the diagnosis and management of celiac disease. (10:46)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Jasmohan Bajaj, MD, MS, FACG interviews Joseph B. Elmunzer, MD, MSc on the recently published ACG Clinical Guideline on the diagnosis and management of biliary strictures (15:26).

Co-Editor-in-Chief Dr Millie Long interviews Dr. Neil Sengupta about the updated ACG Guideline on the management of patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding.(14:57)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Jasmohan Bajaj, MD, MS, FACG interviews Brian C. Jacobson, MD, MPH, FACG on the recently published ACG Clinical Guideline for the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal subepithelial lesions. (17:49)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Dr Millie Long interviews Dr Brennan Spiegel of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on his new hypothesis that seeks to accommodate the manifold theories, clinical symptoms, somatic comorbidities, neuropsychological features, and treatment outcomes of IBS by describing the syndrome in relation to a principal force of human evolution: gravity. (20:33)

AJG Co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long and Dr Phillip Gu from Cedars-Sinai Medical System in Los Angeles, California discuss a new study on whether or not obesity is associated with an increased risk of unplanned healthcare utilization and serious infections.(09:04)

Michael Camilleri, DSc, MRCP (UK), MACG and co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG discuss the new ACG Clinical Guideline on Gastroparesis. Increasingly seen in clinical practice, Gastroparesis is characterized by symptoms suggesting retention of food in the stomach with objective evidence of delayed gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction in the gastric outflow. Camilleri summarizes risk factors, diagnosis, and management of gastroparesis in adults. (16:41)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Jasmohan Bajaj, MD, MS, FACG interviews Kris Kowdley, MD on the recent Rapid RCT "A Randomized, Dose-Finding, Proof of Concept Study of Berberine Ursodeoxycholate in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis," published in the November 2022 issue of AJG. (17:35)

Author Mike T. Wei, MD and Co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG discuss the largest randomized clinical trial to date evaluating cold forceps and cold snare removal of nonpedunculated polyps ≤3 mm. (7:56)

Mark Pimentel, MD, FACG, discusses a smartphone application that uses artificial intelligence to help subjects self-report stool form. A novel smartphone application can determine BSS and other visual stool characteristics with high accuracy compared with the 2 expert gastroenterologists. Moreover, trained AI was superior to subject self-reporting of BSS. AI assessments could provide more objective outcome measures for stool characterization in gastroenterology. (10:49)

Elliot B. Tapper, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan joins co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG to discuss the new randomized controlled trial on pickle juice to reduce cirrhotic cramps. The RCT is published in the June 2022 issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. (10:54)

Co-Editor-in-Chief Millie Long, MD, MPH, FACG interviews Nicholas Shaheen, MD, MPH discuss the recently updated ACG Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Barrett's Esophagus. Dr. Shaheen highlights changes in the new guideline including broadening of acceptable screening modalities for BE to include nonendoscopic methods, liberalized intervals for surveillance of short-segment BE, and volume criteria for endoscopic therapy centers for BE. (19:43)