Gastro Broadcast

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Kevin Rank, chief medical officer at MNGI Digestive Health in Minnesota, about the practice's Links to Care Program, which provides free colonoscopies to uninsured patients across the Twin Cities and earned the National Achievement Award from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable. Links to Care works through partnerships with Federally Qualified Health Centers, c...

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Jay Kreger, chief executive officer of CRH Medical, a GI solutions company that provides anesthesia services to gastroenterology practices at more than 150 ambulatory surgery centers in 18 states, about how independent practices can keep anesthesia care reliable and accessible for patients. Independent GI practices depend on anesthesia services for many of the procedu...

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Donevan Westerveld of Borland Groover in Jacksonville, Florida, about how his practice uses InterStim therapy to care for patients with fecal incontinence, a condition that affects an estimated 18 million Americans. Despite the availability of effective treatments, fecal incontinence is under-diagnosed and under-treated, and roughly two thirds of those affected...

Kevin Harlen interviews Tom Wierzbowski, founder of Willow Risk Advisors, about how his firm helps physician practices and health care organizations manage professional liability and navigate today's malpractice insurance market. Willow Risk Advisors specializes in building specialty-specific insurance programs for physician groups and associations, working directly with carriers to structure cove...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Lyndsey Burton, a diagnostic radiologist and chief medical officer at Heidi, about how its AI-powered tools are helping clinicians reduce administrative burden and reclaim time for patient care. Heidi's suite of AI tools generates clinical notes in real time, provides access to evidence-based clinical research at the point of care, and manages patient scheduling and...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Steven Klein of Wilmington Gastroenterology about how UnitedHealthcare’s recent 15% reimbursement reduction for anesthesia services provided by certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) could affect the way independent gastroenterology practices structure anesthesia services and maintain patient access to procedures such as colonoscopy. Dr. Klein explains how i...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dru Riddle, Professor of Professional Practice and Director of Clinical Education in the School of Nurse Anesthesia at Texas Christian University and a past president of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology, about the role certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) play in providing anesthesia for GI care. CRNAs are essential to maintaining access to GI...

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Chi Kapoor, founder and managing partner of KITC, a cybersecurity firm that works with healthcare organizations to protect sensitive data, maintain regulatory compliance, and strengthen resilience against digital threats. As cyberattacks against healthcare organizations continue to rise, private practice gastroenterology groups face growing exposure due to interconnec...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Caitlin Houghton, a foregut surgeon at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center. Dr. Houghton specializes in the management of GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus, focusing on identifying patients at highest risk for esophageal cancer and using advanced endoscopic techniques to personalize care. GERD Awareness Week coincides with the s...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Mallika Khandelwal, founder and CEO of Squad Health, and Tasha Cieslak, practice manager of Louisiana Gastroenterology Associates about how independent GI practices can streamline the management of complex prescription workflows. Squad Health is an AI-enabled healthcare technology company developing solutions to streamline access to specialty medications and reduce the w...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Sahil Patel and Patrick Leonard of SideBy Care, a virtual platform that partners with GI practices to support patients with disorders of gut-brain interaction such as irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia. SideBy Care provides gut-brain therapy, nutrition counseling, and behavioral support through a multidisciplinary team - services that are typically cov...

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Casey Chapman, chief medical officer of the GI Alliance, and Jonathan Ng, founder and CEO of Iterative Health, about a new strategic partnership to expand access to clinical trials across 400 GI Alliance locations in 20 states. By integrating the GI Alliance's established research sites with Iterative Health’s Site Network, the collaboration creates one of the...

Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam interviews Dr. Larry Kim of South Denver GI, where he has spent his career advancing patient care, expanding advanced endoscopy and research programs, and fostering a practice that champions diversity and collaboration in independent GI. As the 120th president of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), Dr. Kim builds on 25 years of leadership advancing research, e...

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Dr. Reezwana Chowdhury, a gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins specializing in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and Tina Aswani-Omprakash, executive director of the South Asian IBD Alliance. The South Asian IBD Alliance creates resources, research, and education for IBD patients of South Asian origin and healthcare providers - to minimize disparities, dispel stigma, p...

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Jess Ivy, the Head of Nutrition at Sylvan Health, which focuses on empowering patients with chronic diseases through affordable and accessible nutrition counseling. Sylvan health provides a comprehensive nutrition service line to support the broader care model within GI practices and to help addresses dietary and lifestyle factors that can play a positive role in dige...

Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam interviews Dr. Deepti Mehtani, vice president of clinical solutions for NextGen Healthcare, about its recently launched Gastro Suite, which brings gastro-specific workflows to the NextGen electronic health record to streamline repetitive tasks, deliver faster insights, and support an enhanced patient experience. The suite is easily integrated with other solutions from NextGen...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Brittany Panico, a rheumatologist in Colorado Springs who recently wrote an op-ed calling for reforms to the 340B program to require more transparency and reporting on how 340B discounts are passed on to patients. The 340B Program is a federal drug pricing program that allows certain hospitals and clinics to buy medications at steep discounts to support medication ac...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Vetri Venthan Elango and Dr. Renu Dhanasekaran, the founders of Arithmedics, a company that uses generative AI and data intelligence to reduce administrative time and costs for providers. Arithmedics uses generative AI and data intelligence to reduce billing mistakes and claim denials. Its software generates and explains codes to streamline the billing process and uses d...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Gary Trendel, vice president of Endoscopy Solutions Ecosystem and Dr. Ruhy Patel, Medical and Scientific Affairs lead for the Endoscopy Solutions Ecosystem and Digital Units at Olympus. Odin Medical, an Olympus company, recently received 510K clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first cloud-based Artificial Intelligence technology designed to assi...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Jeff Glueck, co-founder and CEO of Salvo Health, a technology company that partners with GI practices to support patients with chronic GI conditions through a virtual clinic experience using a multi-disciplinary care team. Salvo Health's framework seeks to restore balance and improve chronic symptoms by considering the interconnected roles that the mind, body and gut pla...

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Vijay Yajnik, vice president and head of U.S. Medical, Gastroenterology, at Takeda about how the prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is increasing, and evidence is growing that EoE is not a rare disease, but an underdiagnosed one. Approximately one in 2000 people in the U.S. live with EoE, and the incidence and prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis have ste...

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Ali Rezaie, a GI physician-scientist who specializes in microbiome research and gastrointestinal motility disorders. His recent study, which won an award at ACG, showed that a new elemental diet from mBIOTA Labs can significantly improve patient compliance. The study assessed mBIOTA Elemental, a palatable elemental diet designed to address the barriers of poor...

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Dr. Larry Kosinski about new data from SonarMD describing the association between anxiety and increased risk for flares and higher disease severity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and emphasizing the importance of integrating mental health support within value-based care models for IBD management. According to the study, patients with anxiety symptoms were sig...

Host Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Kathleen Teixeira, vice president of public policy and advocacy for the American Gastroenterological Association. Lisa and Kathleen discuss what policies will be in play in 2025 and how GI physicians can get involved to advocate for their patients and their practices. Join Lisa and Kathleen as they explore how physicians can get involved in shaping the policies that...

Kevin Harlen interviews Laura Wingate, chief education, support, and advocacy officer with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation about a recent survey which shows that more than 40 percent of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have made significant financial trade-offs to afford their healthcare. The survey, published in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, included responses from more than 2,200 I...