3rd Annual UCLA-Mellinkoff GI and Hepatology Symposium March 13-15, 2015

• Achalasia Treatment: Balloon, Needle, Knife or Haiku
• Gastroparesis: Evaluation and Management
• Controversies in Barrett’s Esophagus: Whom to Screen, When to Ablate, How to Follow
• Auto-immune Hepatic and Biliary Disorders
• Defecation Disorders: Constipation and Incontinence – Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options
• Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis: Evaluation and Management
• Your Liver Is Full of Fat: What Should/Can You Do?
• Managing GI Bleeding
• Foreign Bodies
• Viral Hepatitis: A New Dawn of Therapy
• Laryngo-Pharyngeal Reflux: An ENT Physician’s View
• Functional Disorders of the Ano-rectum

Achalasia Treatment: Balloon, Needle, Knife or Haiku

Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD, UCLA

Gastroparesis: Evaluation and Management

Bennett E. Roth, MD, UCLA

Controversies in Barrett’s Esophagus: Whom to Screen, When to Ablate, How to Follow

V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS, UCLA

Auto-immune Hepatic and Biliary Disorders

Steven-Huy Han, MD, UCLA

Defecation Disorders: Constipation and Incontinence – Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options

Lin Chang, MD, UCLA

Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis: Evaluation and Management

Alireza Sedarat, MD, UCLA

Your Liver Is Full of Fat: What Should/Can You Do?

Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD, UCLA

Managing GI Bleeding

Dennis M. Jensen, MD, UCLA

Foreign Bodies

Thomas Kovacs, MD, UCLA

Viral Hepatitis: A New Dawn of Therapy

Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, UCLA

Laryngo-Pharyngeal Reflux: An ENT Physician’s View

Dinesh K. Chhetri, MD, UCLA

Functional Disorders of the Ano-rectum

Christopher Tarnay, MD, UCLA