Excited that our very own Vivian Huang, MD (Dr. Vivian Huang) is representing Sinai Health and @uoft_DoM at the PIANO Global IBD in Pregnancy Consensus Conference!

Excited that our very own Vivian Huang, MD (Dr. Vivian Huang) is representing Sinai Health and @uoft_DoM at the PIANO Global IBD in Pregnancy Consensus Conference!

Dr. Scott Fung from the Toronto Center for Liver Disease has been honored by his UofTGIM resident colleagues for the 2024 PARO Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, in recognition for his commitment to procedural instruction around liver disease

Congrats to Dr. Fung!!!!

Congratulations to jc PREDICT IBD on being a global leader in IBD Epidemiology and for joining the University of Toronto Gastroenterology+Hepatology family here in Toronto!

And thanks to all our sponsors and supporters for allowing us to collaborate with GI luminaries from around the world

HAPPENING NOW!!

Dr. Tine Jess (PREDICT IBD ) is here at University of Toronto Gastroenterology+Hepatology for our Annual City Wide Rounds in IBD to share her experiences in harnessing the power of population based comprehensive data to understand why people get IBD (and why it’s course is so variable)

A UHN-led clinical trial has made a breakthrough in managing primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), a liver-related autoimmune disease with no known cure.

Read more about the promising clinical trial led by #TeamUHN Physician Dr. Gideon Hirschfield ⬇

uhn.ca/corporate/news…

Pioneering surgeon Dr. Robin McLeod championed evidence-based medicine theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Congrats to Dr. Gideon Hirschfield and team for his spearheading a practice changing RCT on the role of Seladelpar in improving clinically relevant outcomes in patients with PBC with inadequate response to Ursodiol! Link below!

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

We have it rock bottom when experienced family MDs advise new grads: 'we recommend that you do not start your own family medicine practice in Ontario. Not right now.' DocSilvy Dr. Sohail Gandhi, MD Dr. Nadia Alam (she/her) - we must take all steps to change this reality.

thestar.com/opinion/contri…

‘12 Hours in the ER’ A behind-the-scenes look at the incredible people and teams that are caring for patients on the front-line of #UHN Toronto Western Hospital Emergency Department.

Read more in today’s Toronto Star feature by Kenyon Wallace ⬇️⬇️⬇️
thestar.com/news/gta/we-sp…

***Attention Canadian Family Physicians***

Please join either LIVE or HYBRID on Friday May 31, 2024 for our 2nd Annual CME on GI and Liver for the Primary Care Physician

6h of CCFP CME credit available

Details Below!!

cpd.utoronto.ca/gastroheprevie…

cpd.utoronto.ca/gastroheprevie…

The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Yvonne Tse as our incoming Postgraduate Residency Program Director, effective March 1, 2024!

Congratulations Dr. Tse!

We're thrilled to announce that Lisa Robinson has been appointed as the dean of #TemertyMed !

Prof. Robinson will assume her new role on July 1, 2024 for a five-year term. bit.ly/48fwoFr

U of T GI Residents. Work hard. Play hard.

Amazing initiative - a truly multidisciplinary clinic with other specialists and allied health including dieticians. Psychologists, pharmacists would be so ideal!

welcome to Toronto!

This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:

To all students at MIT,

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that

The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology is saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Dr. Alvin Newman (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Dr. Newman was an expert clinician, an esteemed educator, and was both a character, and a physician of character.

May his memory be a blessing