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Physicians of the Melissa L. Posner Institute for Digestive Health and Liver Disease at Mercy

The Melissa L. Posner Institute For Digestive Health And Liver Disease At Mercy Presents 3rd Annual Consensus & Controversies In Gastroenterology And Hepatology Conference

Mercy Medical Center’s Institute for Digestive Health and Liver Disease presents the 3rd annual CONSENSUS AND CONTROVERSIES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY continuing medical education course for physicians and medical staff, Fri-Sat, Sept. 23-24, 2011, in the Truman Semans Conference Room, 2nd floor, Weinberg Center at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Place.

Topics of discussion will include new drug discoveries for Hepatitis C, managing the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patient, gastro-intestinal (GI) problems among international travelers; chronic pancreatitis; neuroendocrine tumors, endoscopic management of surgical complications, and more.

Among the featured speakers will be Institute physicians Drs. Paul J. Thuluvath, Mary Harris, Sanjay Jagannath, Anurag Maheshwari, Patrick Hyatt, Richard Desi, Sergey Kantsevoy and Anita Bhushan. Other speakers include surgical oncologist Dr. Armando Sardi, pain management expert Dr. David Maine, travel medicine expert Dr. Michael Zimring, and others.

Registration for physicians is $150 and includes instruction materials, meals, CME certificate and complimentary parking. To register, go online at http://www.regonline.com/1002002.