💡A shift in practice — rotavirus vaccine may be given to infants exposed to anti-TNF in utero. 💉 Live vaccines can be given to infants whose mothers are breastfeeding on biologics. 👏🏻 PIANO group for compiling these data + forming these expert consensus recs. #DDW2024

A tremendous effort from Uma Mahadevan and Millie Long consolidating pregnancy data from around the 🌎 -rotavirus💉should be given on schedule in infants with in utero TNF -active flare=teratogen -breastfeeding safe with mAb use -preeclampsia is a major risk, start low dose asa

So proud of all our UCSF Gastroenterology Fellowship and huge congrats to all our UCSF Health faculty presenting at #DDW2024 this weekend!

✅Wound healing after delivery among IBD pts delayed by immunomodulator use (episiotomy) but not anti-TNF use ✅44% rate of c section, half elective. Room for improvement ✅great presentation by ⁦Sara Lewin, MD⁩ ⁦PIANO⁩ ⁦Digestive Disease Week⁩

Always grateful for mentorship from Uma Mahadevan and KattahLab 🙏🏻 This isn’t possible without them.

Incredible and momentous event InternationalBowelUS and iUSCAN joint reception with members from all continents across the globe! #DDW2024

🍇#GIReconnect24 Gi Health Foundation 📡 #IUS accelerates & simplify #IBD care Rishika Chugh ⏰No time wasted waiting for CT/MR or colonoscopy to be scheduled & on cumbersome logistics 📸Crash course on IUS parameters & indications & future utility 👇🏽

A subject near and dear to me—intestinal ultrasound for #IBD. Great intro to IUS value by ⁦Rishika Chugh⁩ ⁦⁦Gi Health Foundation⁩ #GIReconnect ⁦Mariangela Allocca⁩ ⁦Michael Todd Dolinger, MD MBA⁩ ⁦American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)⁩ ⁦Uma Mahadevan⁩

⭐️Panel discussion #GIReconnect24 Maria T. Abreu: How do you define #IBD severity to pts? ✅Current symptoms & endo findings ✅Longitudinal assessment: prior Rx/response, time to LOR, 🏥✂️steroids use & response ✅Dis burden on QOL & daily living (urgency, depression, disability..)

🍇#GIReconnect24 Sara Horst MD, MPH, FACG stresses the importance of Early Effective therapy after #Crohns dx 💎#PROFILE Early IFX+IMM ✅80 % steroid-free remission at week48 ✅70% Endo remission wk48 ! #EarlyTherapyDoesIt 🚫Stop wasting time w ineffective 5ASA, steroids courses etc..

🍇#GIReconnect24 Gi Health Foundation breaking the therapeutic glass ceiling Maria T. Abreu ✅Early Dx & prognostication ✅Effective Rx early ✅Combo Rx: TNFi or JAKi + IL12/23 or IL23 or Vedo + “ a side of #microbiota therapy (Choice per 🎯: Treat severe/refractory dis; treat IBD+EIM)

We are so proud of our 2024 UCSF Gastroenterology graduates & newly minted GI attendings 🎊🍾🎓. They all have bright 🌟 futures ahead! UCSF Health UCSFIBD UC San Francisco

Hot of the press: Upadacitinib safety in pregnancy. 128 maternal pregnacies all exposed in the first trimester primarily. MotherToBaby Mette Julsgaard Millie Long link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Celebrating life’s milestones with ⁦Rishika Chugh⁩ and the ⁦UC San Francisco⁩ fam. ⁦Arushi Kohli⁩ ⁦Justin Field, MD⁩ ⁦Priya Kathpalia⁩ ⁦Myung Ko⁩ #waseemahmed

Sharing our case report on the use of IUS in a patient with microscopic colitis - from initial diagnosis to treatment response. IUS may be a useful tool for monitoring response to treatment in patients with microscopic colitis. InternationalBowelUS academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/adv…

Celebrating our newest GI mama ⁦Rishika Chugh⁩ with some fabulous Indian at TIYA SF. ⁦Priya Kathpalia⁩ ⁦Kendall Beck⁩ ⁦Sara Lewin, MD⁩ ⁦Myung Ko⁩ ⁦Arushi Kohli⁩ Connie Wang. ⁦UC San Francisco⁩

It was such a pleasure to have Sanket Patel this past week UCSFIBD for InternationalBowelUS module 2 training! He is changing the way IBD is practiced Virtua Health, and there is now an IUS option available in the Philadelphia/ NJ area!

The APP bootcamp is open to all and a great refresher before the intense learning of the 4-day meeting. Fernando Velayos MD MPH Jami Kinnucan, MD, FACG, AGAF, FCCF Rishika Chugh Norah Terrault