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Chomp chomp from San Diego! The Gators showed up and showed out at #DDW2025 — science, sunshine, and serious Gator spirit!

Honored to represent the University of Florida at #DDW2025. Please reach out for questions regarding our research on #IBD using a robust novel dataset #EpicCosmos Digestive Disease Week

Dr. Kleehammer discussing our experience, diagnosing and treating imdeterminate biliary strictures! Digestive Disease Week UF Gastroenterology & Hepatology UF Surgery

Our residents, fellows and faculty at Digestive Disease Week 🐊 🐊 🐊

Liver team 🤝 Luminal team Big shoutout to our inpatient consult teams for holding down the fort during Digestive Disease Week week 🐊 🐊 🐊

At #DDW2025, Tomas Potlach identified demographic predictors of opioid exposure in IBD patients with history of bowel obstructions. Hispanic ethnicity, male sex, Crohn’s disease, and age >=65 were independent risk factors for opioid exposure.

At #DDW2025, Chelsea Salmon shared how UF IBD health liaisons are able to capture information on patients’ occupational function and social lives— which is sometimes missed in routine clinical visits.

Just Tomas Potlach at it again at #DDW2025! For the first time, researchers at the University of Florida explored access to advanced IBD therapies in Epic Cosmos, a national electronic health record dataset covering 277 million lives in the United States.

#DDW2025 Dr. Ali Aalam: Using representative data from the NEDS database (2012–2021), our study quantifies the growing burden of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis patients presenting to EDs, highlighting how major complications and comorbidities impact admission rates.

At #DDW2025, Nofel Iftikhar shared findings on disparities in pain management for IBD patients who underwent bowel resection. Hispanic patients were less likely than NHW patients to receive opioids, gabapentinoids, and antispasmodics, despite similar surgery rates.

#DDW2025 “My research studied the association between resistant infections and patients with a history of IBD and long-term antibiotic use. Our results showed increased odds of various infection types based on steroid use, select antibiotic use, IBD treatment, and demographics.”

At #DDW2025 UF peds GI, Dr. Heba Kamal, presented her research “Using Artificial Intelligence in the Identification of Active Crohn’s Disease On Cross Sectional Imaging in Pediatric Patients.”

.Christy Shao presenting her research on endoscopic education for new GI fellows! Big thanks to Dr. Aleksey Novikov and Dr. Jennifer Fieber for their mentorship! Digestive Disease Week #DDW2025

#ddw2025 Celebrating our group’s work with the world. The UF IBD and Celiac group presented on a wide range from basic science, AI, big data including Epic COSMOS, and patient centered projects. UF Inflammatory Bowel and Celiac Disease Program UF Gastroenterology & Hepatology Ellen Zimmermann Tomas Potlach Chelsea Salmon

Congrats to Chelsea Salmon for giving an oral presentation at #DDW2025 on a humanized mouse model from the Zimmermann and Sahay labs demonstrating the therapeutic effects of SlpA, a surface layer protein found on lactobacillus acidophilus, for a potential microbial IBD therapy.

Aniruddh Setya, MD will be leading our next UF IBD webinar! See flyer for more info. When: May 21st 6-7pm EST Where: Zoom Register here: ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🚨Gator Gut Buster: Myth or Fact? 🐊 This month’s Fact✅: We should test patients with autoimmune hepatitis for celiac disease! Post by our IM resident Lindsey Creech