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Gastroenterologists and Foregut Surgeons in the treatment of foregut disease.
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Register Now for the AFS Hands-on Course
April 27-29th | NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health | Evanston, IL
The course will be an intensive hands-on experience with faculty with extensive experience with Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty, Endoscopic gastrojejunal revisions, and endoscopic management of bariatric complications. Attendees will have access to an online knowledge-based section before and after the course. The course will comprise over 12 hours of hands-on experience with faculty mentorship over two days.
2023 Annual MEETING
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Registration
Opens March 2023
Abstracts
Submissions Open: February 1, 2023
Submission Deadline: April 17, 2023
FAFS
Applications Open: March 2023
Submission Deadline: April 2023
Awards
Nominations Open: March 2023
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting Preliminary Agenda
- Esophageal Cancer Session:
- Stratifying risk in Barrett’s
- What to do with the chemoradiation responder
- Endoluminal therapies for esophageal cancer (EMR, ESD)
- Esophagectomy: How do we improve perioperative outcomes
- Palliative treatment of esophageal cancer
- Extraesophageal GERD session:
- Hoarseness and Laryngitis
- Chronic cough
- Pulmonary syndromes and ILD
- Reflux and lung transplant graft rejection
- ARS for extraesophageal GERD
- Gastroparesis session:
- Approach, medical management, feeding tubes
- Gastric electrical stimulation
- G-POEM/pyloroplasty/gastrectomy
- Emerging Technologies/techniques:
- MSA after sleeve
- Endoluminal robotics
- Gastric mapping of motor function
- EFS session:
- State of EFS
- Microbiome and foregut disease
- Training and Education:
- Competency based education
- Video based assessment
- Discussion
- 60 Minutes:
- PCABs: indications and use
- Prediction of Barrett’s progression
- Dupilumab/Biologics in EoE
- Innovation in Foregut Endoscopy:
- Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty
- Endoluminal wound vac for fistula/leak
- Endoscopic gastrojejunostomy
- Esophageal holes and foreign bodies:
- Erosion of Mesh, MSA, Lap band
- Ingested foreign bodies
- Management of acute esophageal perforation
- Keynote Addresses
- President’s speech
- Video based assessment/epa
- Salvage procedures for gerd
- Artificial intelligence in GI
- AI in surgery/procedural analysis
- AI in motility/pH/FLIP interpretation
- Meet the Press:
- GERD updates
- FLIP updates
- HRIM updates
- C-TIF
Abstract Submission is Now Open for the 2023 Annual Meeting!
UPCOMING AFS MEETINGS
September 28-Oct 1, 2023 – Gaylord Texan
September 26-29, 2024 – Gaylord Rockies
September 11-13, 2025 – Gaylord Texan
September 24-27, 2026 – Gaylord National
The AFS Research Committee proudly announces the AFS Research Grant for $10,000!
AFS’s Research Grant program focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of Foregut disease.
The AFS Research Grant is open to any young principal investigator (within 5 years of completion of training) who is a current AFS member. AFS hopes that funding through this research grant will lead to additional extramural funding. Awards are conferred on a competitive basis by submission of a grant application, which is assessed by the AFS Research Committee.
The purpose of this grant is to stimulate original research in foregut disease. The study may be either “bench” research, clinical or education.
- The grant is limited to no more than $10,000 each, for 1-year period following the award funding date.
- Made to the Institution
In the spirit of supporting the goals of our membership, applicants are encouraged to include, but not limited to, the top research questions listed by AFS members on the 2019 AFS Research Committee Survey:
- Long-term outcomes after anti-reflux surgery and hiatal hernia repair
- LINX vs fundoplication
- Prospective randomized controlled trial of QOL and long-term outcomes of laparoscopy vs robotic foregut surgery
- Mesh vs no mesh to decrease hiatal/paraesophageal hernia recurrence
- Use of EndoFLIP to gauge adequate hiatal hernia repair and anti-reflux procedures
- Role of anti-reflux surgery, LINX, TIF in management of Barrett’s esophagus
FELLOW OF the AFS (FAFS)
Applications Open March 30th
The American Foregut Society proudly announces a new honor to be bestowed on distinguished AFS members, Fellow of the AFS (FAFS).
Our first inductees were announced at the 2022 Annual Conference. Unique by design, the American Foregut Society codifies the multidisciplinary standard to which we all strive. Becoming a Fellow of the AFS requires the expected commitment to excellence and a track record of leadership, but also requires the practitioner to move outside the silo in which they practice. The AFS seeks to promote both academic and clinical collaboration from all those working within the foregut space; being designated a Fellow of the American Foregut Society therefore demonstrates the ultimate commitment to caring for patients with foregut disorders.
Foregut Volume 2 Issue 4
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY IN A GROWING A FLEDGLING JOURNAL
- AFS WHITE PAPER ON ENDOSCOPIC CLASSIFICATION OF ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION INTEGRITY
- COMPARING THE OUTCOMES OF MSA AND FUNDOPLICATION IN SEVERE GERD
- OUTCOME MEASURES FOR ACHALASIA: BEYOND THE ECKARDT SCORE
- IS THERE A ROLE FOR PNEUMATIC DILATION IN PRIMARY TREATMENT OF ACHALASIA?
THE JOURNAL SEEKS ORIGINAL RESEARCH IN 2023 FOR THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL ISSUES:
- CRITICAL DECISION-MAKING IN FOREGUT DISEASE
- ARTICLES DUE FEBRUARY 1, 2023
- SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE ESOPHAGUS
- ARTICLES DUE MAY 1, 2023
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AFS announces a new endoscopic classification of the esophagogastric junction
The AFS announces a new endoscopic classification of the esophagogastric junction. The classification recognizes that the antireflux barrier involves the crural diaphragm and intrinsic lower esophageal sphincter in addition to the flap valve classification as described by Hill. It stratifies EGJ integrity from normal (grade 1) to increasing degrees of EGJ disruption (grade 2-4) beginning with loss of the flap valve and progressing to increasing degrees of crural disruption and hiatus hernia. It also stipulates appropriate endoscopic methodology for the assessment and provides a basic nomenclature for communication among endoscopists.
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