Healio Disruptive Innovators

In a Healio video exclusive, Chris Evans, president of the Colon Cancer Coalition and Healio’s 2021 Patient Voice Disruptive Innovator, shares updates on the organization’s recent accomplishments and future plans.

SAN DIEGO — An investigational, point-of-care rectal expulsion device may help determine whether patients with chronic constipation will improve with pelvic floor physical therapy, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

In a Healio video exclusive, Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, professor of population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, shares advice for advancing female representation in gastroenterology.

In this Healio video exclusive, Neena S. Abraham, MD, MSc (Epi), FACG, of the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, discusses her 25 years of research in cardiogastroenterology and how she used telemedicine to continue patient care during the pandemic.

In partnership with the Colon Cancer Coalition, Salix Pharmaceuticals launched the Faces of Blue campaign to raise awareness about the importance of colorectal cancer screening and early detection.

In this Healio video exclusive, Mohammad Bilal, MD, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, discusses how physicians can effectively use social media in gastroenterology and other health care specialties.

The ACG and Canadian Association of Gastroenterology have developed recommendations for the management of anticoagulants and antiplatelets during acute gastrointestinal bleeding and the elective periendoscopic period.

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.

In this video exclusive, Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, FACG, Aline Charabaty, MD and David T. Rubin, MD, highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the use of social media.

In this exclusive video, Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH, director of the fecal microbiota center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses how FMT has transformed treatment in a number of GI conditions.