ON DEMAND: Digestive Health Virtual CME Series 2025: Third Thursdays Trust your Gut

This on demand webinar series are recordings from the 2025 live webinar series. This cme series provides world class digestive health educational programming, professional development and networking opportunities for physicians, clinicians and specialty providers. The overall goal of this unique series is to provide up-to-date evidence-based education in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases.

Course Dates/Titles:

• JAN 16: Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency/Chronic Pancreatitis
• FEB 20: Update of Peptic Ulcer
• MARCH 20: Screening for GI Neoplasms
• APRIL 17: Abdominal Pain in Elderly- Geriatric Gastroenterology
• MAY 15: Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• JUNE 19: LGBTQ & Gastroenterology Care
• JUL 17: Celiac + Teaching Kitchen
• AUGUST 21: AI In GI
• SEPT 18: Gallstones 2025
• OCT 16: Update on Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver (MASLD)
• NOV 20: Practical Update on Diverticulitis
• DEC 18: Upper GI – GERD/Barret’s
  

1. State the role of emerging technologies for medical and surgical management of gastrointestinal diseases• State the role of emerging technologies for medical and surgical management of gastrointestinal diseases
2. Describe how to implement evidence-based medicine in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases
3. Evaluate different views in controversial areas of the surgical and medical management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases
4. Outline up-to-date guidelines for the monitoring and management of gastrointestinal diseases

The Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement
The Yale School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosure Policy
It is the policy of Yale School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education (CME), to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational programs.  All individuals involved in the development and presentation of Accredited Continuing Education activities are required to disclose all financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies that has occurred within the past 24 months; and the opportunity to affect the content of CME about the products or services of the commercial interests. This information is disclosed to all activity participants prior to the commencement of the educational activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Piyal Alam, DO
Northeast Medical Group
Hollis Hills, NY

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

jill Banatoski, MD
NEMG
Westbrook, CT

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Loren Laine, MD
Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Other: Adjudication committee for clinical trials sponsored by an ineligible company-Intercept Pharmaceuticals|Other: Adjudication committee for clinical trials sponsored by the ineligible company-Pfizer|Other: Data safety monitoring board for clinical trials sponsored by the ineligible company-Biohaven|Other: Data safety monitoring board for clinical trials sponsored by the ineligible company (which is Celgene, which was bought by BMS but payment still shown as coming from Celgene) -Celgene|Consulting Fee-Phathom Pharmaceuticals|Other: Data safety monitoring board for clinical trials sponsored by indeligible company-Merck|Other: Adjudication committee for clinical trials sponsored by GSK-GlaxoSmithKline (Relationship has ended)|Consulting Fee-Medtronic

Walter E. Longo, MD
Professor of Colon & Rectal Surgery (Gastrointestinal)
Chief, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Faculty

Joseph Mendes, MS, PA-C
Executive Director
Yale New Haven Health
Middletown, CT

Faculty

Thiruvengadam Muniraj, MD PhD FRCP(Lon)
Associate Professor of Medicine (Advanced endoscopy)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Faculty

Nothing to disclose