The Division of Gastroenterology, in cooperation with the Pacific Northwest Gastroenterology Society (PNWGS), invites you to join our CME accredited Meet the Professor Evening Program. This series is an extension of our Frontiers in Gastroenterology and Hepatology series, and accommodates practicing physicians whose schedules do not allow attendance at a day time conference.

The Meet the Professor Evening Program offers four 90-minute dinner lectures with rotating topics focused on the latest updates and advances in research and improvement of patient care. The program also includes a full-day, state-of-the-art gastrointestinal endoscopy course. The series is taught and led by Division faculty and invited local, national and international experts in different fields. View 2012 Program Agenda »

Conference activities include review and critique of published journal articles, review of difficult or unusual problems for the practicing gastroenterologist, discussion of complications of procedures and other adverse events, and presentations of current research hypotheses, methods and results.

Update on EUS: Guided Biliary Drainage

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Chief of Advanced Endoscopy
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Michel Kahaleh, MD, AGAF, FACG, FASGE is the Chief of Advanced Endoscopy at Weill Cornell Medical College. Trained in Erasme Hospital, University of Brussels, he led the Pancreatico-Biliary team of endoscopists at the University of Virginia before joining Weill Cornell Medical College in July 2011. He is a world renowned endoscopist boarded in both Europe and the United States. He is fluent is French, Spanish and Arabic.

The adjunct use of both Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and Endoscopic Ultrasonography (EUS) has permitted him and his team to successfully treat pancreatic collections and perform newly described procedures that have had a major impact on patient management.

With over 100 publications, Dr. Kahaleh's research has primarily focused on interventional endoscopy. He continually serves as a primary investigator on many clinical trials; including those that involve the use of new devices to diagnose and treat biliary and pancreatic diseases. A major focus of his research is on preventing and treating complications of advanced endoscopic procedures. He is actively analyzing the efficacy of metallic stents in both benign and malignant diseases. Another area of investigation for Dr. Kahaleh is understanding and preventing biliary and pancreatic cancer. The objective is to develop new diagnostic techniques for reducing the mortality associated with those cancers, by detecting them earlier and treating them using novel therapies such as laser therapy, photodynamic therapy and radiofrequency ablation.
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Stephanie Chiappuzzo Keller
University of Washington
Division of Gastroenterology
1959 NE Pacific Street | Box 356424
Seattle, WA 98195-6424
For inquiries, you can contact her:
P: (206) 616-9965 | F: (206) 616-5752
pnwgs@medicine.washington.edu