Northwestern Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

CURRENT COURSES

Upcoming Continuing Medical Education Event in March 2009

Fifth Annual Winter Course on IBD, Nutrition, Obesity, & Intestinal Failsure at Aspen

You are invited to join us for our 4th annual winter course on IBD and intestinal failure March 6 - 8 , 2009 in Aspen Colorado.    This course is designed to provide the practicing gastroenterologist and surgeon with a comprehensive update of what is new in IBD diagnosis and treatment, including nutritional and surgical considerations, as well as what can be expected in the near future.

Sponsored by the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, and the Northwestern Intestinal Rehabilitation Center. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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PREVIOUS COURSES

Third Annual Winter Course on IBD & Intestinal Failure at Sundance

Thank you for joining us for our 3rd annual winter course on IBD and intestinal failure March 1 - 4, 2007 in Sundance Utah.    This course is designed to provide the practicing gastroenterologist and surgeon with a comprehensive update of what is new in IBD diagnosis and treatment, as well as what can be expected in the near future.

Sponsored by the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, and the Northwestern Intestinal Rehabilitation Center. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Download the Course Brochure * for additional information

Fourth Annual Winter Course on IBD & Intestinal Failsure at Sundance

You are invited to join us for our 4th annual winter course on IBD and intestinal failure March 6 - 9, 2008 in Sundance Utah.    This course is designed to provide the practicing gastroenterologist and surgeon with a comprehensive update of what is new in IBD diagnosis and treatment, as well as what can be expected in the near future.

Sponsored by the Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, and the Northwestern Intestinal Rehabilitation Center. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Download the Course Brochure * for additional information

Fourth Annual Management of Difficult GI Problems

Please join us for the 4th Annual Management of Difficult GI Problems course being held on Saturday, April 14, 2007. Below is a listing of the course topics, presenters, and schedule:

Time Program Topics & Presenter

7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration

7:55 a.m. Welcome

8:00 a.m. Irritable Bowel Syndrome: How to Distinguish from other Pathological Conditions
Arvydas Vanagunas, MD

8:30 a.m. Current Management Strategies for Complicated IBD Patients
Alan Buchman, MD, MSPH

9:00 a.m. Crohn’s Disease: To Cut or Not to Cut?
Amy Halverson, MD

9:30 a.m. Future Directions in IBD Management Strategies
Terrence Barrett, MD

10:00 a.m. Break

10:15 a.m. Obesity: Medical Management
Robert Kushner, MD

10:45 a.m. Obesity: Surgical Management
Phil Schauer MD

11:15 a.m. Hepatocellular Carcinoma – Liver Directed Therapies
Laura Kulik, MD

11:45 a.m. Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
Alan Koffron, MD

12:15 p.m. Lunch and Case Discussion

1:30 p.m. Surgical Management of the Pancreatic Malignancy
David Bentrem, MD

2:00 p.m. Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation
Jonathan Fryer, MD

2:30 p.m. ERCP VS MRCP?
John Martin, MD

3:00 p.m. Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery:
Fact or Fantasy?
Nathaniel Soper, MD

3:30 p.m. Adjournment