ACG 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting

Breakfast A: Clinical Challenges in Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis

• Evaluation and Management of Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis
  Outline the definition, diagnosis, and evaluation of the patient with ARP, including the indications and roles of endoscopic, medical, and surgical treatments.
• A Practical Multidisciplinary Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Pancreatitis
  Summarize the indications and roles of medical, endoscopic, and surgical management of CP, including pain management.
• Management of Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis in 2020: An Update
  Discuss the evidence-based, multidisciplinary and state of the art approach to management of the patient with severe necrotizing pancreatitis.

Breakfast B: IBD: The Latest and Greatest In… Pancreatitis

• …Efficacy
  Analyze up-to-date evidence, including comparative effectiveness, of biologic and small molecule efficacy in IBD.
• …Safety
  Recognize current safety concerns for biologics and small molecules used to treat IBD.
• …Emerging Therapies
  Identify promising therapeutics for the treatment of IBD.

Breakfast C: Hot Topics in Liver Disease

• Management of Cirrhotic Complications
  Discuss the current strategies for high quality management of HE, ascites, and complications of end stage liver disease.
• AKI in Cirrhotics
  Describe the current definition of acute kidney injury (AKI) in cirrhotics and identify the strategies to prevent and treat.
• Alcoholic Liver Disease
  Identify the epidemiology of alcoholic liver disease, current management, and future therapies.

Breakfast D: Symptoms Following Foregut Interventions: It’s Back in Your Court

• Reflux and Recurrent Dysphagia After Achalasia Interventions
  Formulate a treatment strategy for patients who remain symptomatic after intervention for achalasia.
• Dysphagia, Dyspepsia, and Bloating After Anti-Reflux Surgery
  Manage dysphagia and functional gastrointestinal symptoms after antireflux surgery.
• Weight Lost, Symptoms Gained: Complaints After Bariatric Surgery
  Identify and manage common patient concerns after bariatric surgery.

Breakfast E: Innovations in Practice Management

• Social Media and Your Practice: The Why and How
  Discuss benefits and risks of having a social media presence for your practice and how to establish one, including creating a website and handling patient reviews.
• Telemedicine and Your Practice: Is It Worth It?
  Describe infrastructure, settings, coding, reimbursement, and the specific experience/advantage for hepatology and IBD, especially in underserved areas.
• APPs and Your Practice: Maximizing Their Potential While Providing Quality Care
  Identify the role of APPs in various practice and specialty settings, how to train APPs, utilizing various billing scenarios, and how to make it profitable.

Breakfast F: Colonic Conundrums

• Pseudo-Obstruction – Update on Management
  Summarize the current practice standards for diagnosis and management of pseudo-obstruction of the colon.
• Know When to Stent ‘em and When to Cut ‘em: Managing Malignant Obstruction
  Identify when to stent versus when to operate in malignant colorectal obstruction.
• Acute and Recurrent Diverticulitis – To Cut or Not to Cut
  Discuss the updated guidelines for treatment of acute and recurrent diverticulitis and when to operate.

Symposium 1A: ACG Past Presidents’ Symposium

Symposium 1B: Non-IBD Colitides

• Microscopic/Collagenous Colitis: Beyond Budesonide
  Explain the diagnosis and etiologies of colitis, with a focus on treatment of difficult-to-treat disease.
• Bugs, Vectors and Toxins: A Primer on Infectious Colitides
  Recognize infectious colitides commonly seen in GI practice.
• Poo-pourri: Immune, NSAIDs, and Beyond
  Discuss the presentation and management of common non-IBD etiologies of colitis, including NSAID-induced, immune-mediated, and more.

Symposium 1C: Refractory Conditions of the Esophagus: Diagnosis and Treatment

• Approach to Refractory Esophageal Strictures
  Identify the different methods to successfully treat refractory esophageal strictures.
• Identification and Management of Esophageal Manifestations of Dermatologic Conditions
  Recognize the clinical, endoscopic, and histopathologic presentations of dermatologic diseases affecting the esophagus.
• Management of Treatment Failure in Achalasia
  Explain management strategies for post myotomy reflux and chest pain in patients with achalasia

Plenary Session 1A

• Papers 11-14

Plenary Session 1B

• Papers 15-18

Symposium 2A: ACG Guidelines in IBD: Changing Management & Promoting Quality

• Ulcerative Colitis
  Summarize key management recommendations from the ACG’s new Ulcerative Colitis Guidelines.
• Crohn’s Disease
  Describe the ACG guideline recommendations for monitoring and treating Crohn’s disease.
• Guideline Implementation – How To Do It
  Demonstrate a practical approach to guideline implementation for the general gastroenterologist.

Symposium 2B: NASH in Nashville

• Natural History of NAFLD
  Discuss the epidemiology and epigenetics of NAFLD.
• Diagnostic Approach to NAFLD
  Identify the diagnostic approaches to NAFLD.
• Therapy for NAFLD
  Outline the dietary and medical therapies for NAFLD.

Symposium 2C: Live From Nashville! The 8th Annual Endoscopy Video Forum

Moderators: Seth A. Gross, MD, FACG, and Vivek Kaul, MD, FACG
Demonstrate interesting endoscopic findings and techniques encountered in daily clinical practice.