#GITwitter

The 4th🗞️of the #GenderEquity series I had the privilege to lead w ⭐️#WomenInGI⭐️ is out

@LancetGastroHep doi.org/10.1016/S2468-…

🎯Closing the #GenderGap in #GILeadership: The need for effective & comprehensive #Allyship @SiwanTG @AmyOxentenkoMD

A🧵& a 📣to action 1/ Let’s talk numbers #GenderDisparity in #GILeadership

#WomenInGI make up
⚠️19% of fellowship PD or Division chair

⚠️20% of Editorial boards of journals

⚠️5 or less Presidents of 🇺🇸 #GI societies founded >70 yrs; @BritSocGastro founded in 1937 had 2 & @my_ueg (‘1992) one

1/ Excellent update on #COVID19 by @SaraElOualiMD @ibdlive

🔺Despite the rumors-There is NO current treatment for COVID9 - trials on going

🔺#SocialDistancing needed to prevent /delay transmission & #FlattenTheCurve = Not be sick & go to the hospital when it’s beyond capacity 2/ #COVID19 @SaraElOualiMD @ibdlive
Beyond URI #COVID19 can
🔺Cause GI symptoms 50% pts
• ⬆️ w dis severity
•Can preceed fever/URI
🔺Persist in stool up to 47days
•Implications to #GI endoscopy
•?Implication using public BR
🔺Cause Loss of taste/smell
🔺Cause conjunctivitis

@stevenbollipo @GutGirlMD @KapuriaMd @renumathyd @BilalMohammadMD @DrDeborahFisher @rodriguezparra_ 1/ Couldn’t agree more with these tips for good colonoscopy ! My top tips: 1- take your time in the sigmoid, put enough air/ water to see where you are going (the more air you put, the further the cecum will be, just like inflating a balloon); @stevenbollipo @GutGirlMD @KapuriaMd @renumathyd @BilalMohammadMD @DrDeborahFisher @rodriguezparra_ 2/ Reduce Reduce Reduce: Reduce when you reach the splenic flexure, your scope should be at 50; Reduce at turns: hook the tip at the turn and straighten your scope; For a big loop in addition to torquing, flip the scope to make that alpha loop outside the colon on the stretcher