The Frontiers in Gastroenterology & Hepatology CME Series is comprised of five rotating session formats. Each week consists of a combination of two to three of the session formats listed below. For each week that you plan to attend, please check the Academic & CME Calendar. Room location, session times, format, and speakers are subject to change. The calendar is updated frequently, so check in often. As a registered attendee of the series, you will receive email notifications regarding these changes. Be sure to register on-line to start receiving email updates.

Reviews of recently published medical literature which will address educational needs in a variety of areas, encompassing all of the organ systems in the gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary systems as well as over-arching topics. The presentations are organized by topic. There are three in-depth reviews at each session, two given by members of the faculty and one by a fellow. Published manuscripts are reviewed and critiqued by each presenter, who provides an annotated bibliography.

A presentation of cases that represent difficult or unusual problems for the practicing gastroenterologist. Each month's presentation is organized by members of the faculty based at both University-affiliated and community hospitals, clinics, and private practices. The audience consists of faculty, fellows, residents and students, drawn from throughout the Puget Sound region. There is a free-flowing discussion that draws upon the expertise and clinical experience of members of the audience. The presenters provide literature citations relevant to the cases under discussion.

Session on morbidity, mortality & management attended by gastroenterologists from the University of Washington faculty and the private practice community who have an interest in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology. Topics have a strong clinical orientation, with an emphasis on evidence-based decision making.

This session format has an advanced technique or diagnostic focus, such as interventional and advanced diagnostic methods of gastrointestinal endoscopy, as applied to real-life cases. Cases and topics are presented to faculty and fellows from the Division of Gastroenterology and from collaborating departments, such as Radiology and Pathology. Topics for this session format include radiology, histopathology, hepatology, clinical problem solving, research in progress, and evidence-based gastroenterology.

Session presented by a visiting lecturer. Frontiers in Gastroenterology & Hepatology will invite experts from other Universities to lecture on subjects of their expertise, particularly if these topics have not been presented by members of our extended faculty. Under these circumstances, we will invite the principal investigator or primary author to describe his or her original work. There is an opportunity for interchange with the visiting expert at the time of the lecture and in small group seminars following the lecture.