Dr. Parikh interviews Noam Kalina, Chief Business Officer for GistMD. GistMD is an AI-driven personalized patient education platform. Noam explains how GistMD is hoping to help GI patients better understand their disease states and have more success with their bowel preparations. 

In today's episode of the Innovation series, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Latha Alaparthi who is associate chief medical officer of Yale New Haven Health's Bridgeport Hospital Milford campus and co-founder of Olvi Health. They discuss digital health, precision medicine and the virtual digestive platform for women's GI disorders, Olvi Health. 

Everyone says breakfast is important. But why? What makes a good breakfast? Does it matter when you eat it? Jamie Allers, a registered dietician and frequent contributor on the show, answers these questions and more. 

In the spirit of World IBD Day,  today's episode in the Innovation series focuses on IBD in the South Asian population. Tina Aswani-Omprakash is President and co-founder of the South Asian IBD Alliance (SAIA) and she discusses the origin and mission of her patient advocacy organization. 

In this episode of the Gut Doctor podcast, Dr. Parikh interviews Dr. Amanda Ayers, a colorectal surgeon. They discuss the surgical perspective and treatment of colorectal cancer.

We continue the Innovation series where I will speak with physicians, executives, entrepreneurs and leaders who are spearheading us into the next frontier of medicine and gastroenterology. Torrey Smith, an aerospace engineer by training, fits that description completely. He is CEO and co-founder of Endiatx which is pioneering the PillBot - a remotely controlled, motorized pill camera that can look at the stomach. Listen in and if you want to learn more, visit https://www.endiatx.com/mission.

This is the inaugural episode in the new Innovation series. In this series of the Gut Doctor Podcast, I will speak with physicians, executives, entrepreneurs and leaders who are spearheading us into the next frontier of medicine and gastroenterology. In this episode we discuss physician burnout with Parastoo Jangouk, MD. Parastoo is a gastroenterologist, certified mindfulness business coach and the co-founder of SOULpreneurMD (https://www.soulpreneurmd.com/). 

In the GI 101 series, Dr. Parikh interviews one of the training physicians to get their perspective on a variety of gastrointestinal topics. In today's episode, he speaks with Dr. Neil Khoury, a gastroenterology fellow at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Khoury discusses the new guidelines for management of acute pancreatitis.  

March is colon cancer awareness month so in today's episode, I discuss oncologic treatment options for colorectal cancer with Dr. Hardeep Phull. Dr. Phull is Medical Director of Oncology at Palomar Health and Clinical Instructor at the University of California San Diego. He gives a bird's-eye perspective on the steps from colon cancer diagnosis to potential therapy as well as discusses chemotherapy and radiation therapy. 

The doctor becomes the patient in this episode of the Gut Doctor podcast when Dr. Parikh's partner, Dr. John Wysocki- a fellow gastroenterologist- comes to the endoscopy center for his first screening colonoscopy.