VIDEO: ‘Disruptive innovator’ aims to simplify diagnostics, care for GI patients
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In this Healio video exclusive, Eric D. Shah, MD, MBA, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, discusses his latest “disruptive” research to improve patient care in gastroenterology.
Shah won Healio’s 2021 Rising Disruptive Innovator Award, one of several honors given to physicians pushing the status quo in the fields of gastroenterology and liver disease. The up-and-coming physician won for his work in functional GI and neurogastroenterology.
In his current research efforts, Shah is focused on improving insurance coverage and developing new diagnostic tests, particularly for motility disorders like chronic constipation, to resolve access challenges. Results from his team’s research will be presented at Digestive Disease Week in May 2022.
“Our team is doing a lot of great work at Dartmouth to try to improve access for patients, and that’s been so critical during COVID,” Shah said. “I think we realized that helping our patients get to the doctor, get to the GI, get their care has been challenging, but it has also provided room for a lot of opportunity to rethink how we deliver care.
“We are working to develop ways that can simplify and create bedside tools so that patients can get streamlined care and rapid care more effectively.”
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