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April 18, 2018 OCGI Monthly Educational Dinner Program
OCGI's April 18, 2018 Monthly Education Dinner is sponsored by Janssen Biotech at the beautiful Mastro's Steakhouse in Costa Mesa. Douglas Nguyen, MD of UC Irvine Health will be speaking on Consider STELARA as a First-Line Biologic Treatment for Adults with Moderately to Servely Active Crohn’s Disease. Dr. Douglas L. Nguyen is fellowship-trained UC Irvine Health specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology. He has additional expertise in inflammatory bowel disease. His clinical interests include high-risk inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure, irritable…
Find out more »May 24, 2018 OCGI Dinner Meeting
May’s OCGI Monthly Education Dinner will be on Thursday, May 24, 2018. The location will be at Maggiano's Little Italy in South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California. Stuart Gordon, MD will be discussing New Advances in Managing Patients with Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis- Thrombocytopenia at this CME educational dinner program. Stuart Gordon, MD Non-members pay $25 at the door. Please consider supporting OCGI and joining us.
Find out more »July 27, 2018 OCGI Monthly Educational Dinner
July’s OCGI Monthly Education Dinner is a CME/CNE/CPE activity sponsored by Simply Speaking Hepatitis at Morton's Steakhouse in Santa Ana. Steven-Huy Han, MD will be speaking on Essentials in HCV: Best Practices Before and After the Cure. Steven-Huy Han, MD Dr. Han received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and then attended medical school at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York where he received his MD degree. Following a residency in internal medicine at…
Find out more »August 22, 2018 OCGI Educational Dinner Program
OCGI’s August 22, 2018 Monthly Educational Dinner is sponsored by UCLA Health. Fady M. Kaldas, MD of UCLA Health will be speaking on Surgical Management of Liver Disease. Fady M. Kaldas, MD Fady M. Kaldas, MD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at The Dumont- UCLA Transplant Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Service, and the Associate Director of the Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Fellowship Program at UCLA. His…
Find out more »September 26, 2018 OCGI Monthly Educational Dinner Program
OCGI’s September 26, 2018 Monthly Educational Dinner Program will be part one of a two part IBD Alliance/CME qualifying presentation by the GI Health Foundation. This program is essential given the rapidly evolving treatment/management of IBD and the realization that the number of patients diagnosed and treated remains low. As a participant, you and a small group of peers will be asked to participate in two (2) CME case study review sessions. This first presentation is worth 1.5 CME credits…
Find out more »October 24, 2018 Educational Dinner Program
OCGI's October 24, 2018 Monthly Educational Dinner Program is sponsored by Practice Point Communications. Advances in NASH:Disease Burden, Diagnostic/Management Considerations and Emerging Therapies is a CME qualifying event presented by Juan Frias, MD. Dr. Frias, a native of Chile, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida and received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. After serving 5 years as a General Medical Officer in the US Navy, he completed his training in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University and…
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