
Umer Farooq
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Chief GI Fellow @SLUgastro | #EBGI Ambassador @AmCollegeGastro | Associate Editor @ACGCRJ | #CurbsideGI | Alumni @LoyolaMedicine/@ROCregional /KEMU | 🏠🇵🇰
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Umer Farooq #ScopingSundays Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication (EBGI) Camille Lupiáñez-Merly, MD ACG Mohammad Bilal, MD Ahmad N. Bazarbashi أحمد بازارباشي Roberto Simons-Linares, MD Vaibhav Wadhwa Ramzi Mulki, MD Lizzie Aby, MD Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM Aimen Farooq Mouhand Mohamed, MD, MSc Again, if patient has commercial insurance, then order through BlinkRx (in Boise, Idaho) and they will take care of step-edits or prior auths with insurance. if insurance refuses, then they will contact patient directly and offer vonoprazan-amox dual therapy for $50.

Umer Farooq #ScopingSundays Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication (EBGI) Camille Lupiáñez-Merly, MD ACG Mohammad Bilal, MD Ahmad N. Bazarbashi أحمد بازارباشي Roberto Simons-Linares, MD Vaibhav Wadhwa Ramzi Mulki, MD Lizzie Aby, MD Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM Aimen Farooq Mouhand Mohamed, MD, MSc Don't forget that you have to test for eradication after completing therapy. Don't test for eradication unless patients is 4 weeks out from COMPLETING antibiotics and has been off PCABs or PPIs for 2 weeks, too. OK to use H2RAs for 2 weeks prior to doing stool antigen for hp.

Umer Farooq #ScopingSundays Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication (EBGI) Camille Lupiáñez-Merly, MD ACG Mohammad Bilal, MD Ahmad N. Bazarbashi أحمد بازارباشي Roberto Simons-Linares, MD Vaibhav Wadhwa Ramzi Mulki, MD Lizzie Aby, MD Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM Aimen Farooq Mouhand Mohamed, MD, MSc BTW-if you live in NY, vonoprazan is actually on formulary for medicaid patients in NY state, so can get this easily for even medicaid patients.

#ScopingSundays Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication (EBGI) Umer Farooq Evidence-Based GI Doc ACG Mohammad Bilal, MD Ahmad N. Bazarbashi أحمد بازارباشي Roberto Simons-Linares, MD Vaibhav Wadhwa Ramzi Mulki, MD Lizzie Aby, MD Rashmi Advani, MD, ABOM Aimen Farooq Mouhand Mohamed, MD, MSc Rena Yadlapati Ashina Singh Joy Liu Abe Khan Swathi Paleti Afrin Kamal MD, MS Sheeva Parbhu Nasim Parsa, M.D. Dr Jennifer Christie Keith Siau Dalbir Sandhu, MD, FACG, FASGE Michelle Kim Kristle Lee Lynch, MD | Gastroenterology @ UPenn | Salih Samo MD, MSci, FACP||Esophagologist Manoj Mehta MD David Leiman, MD, MSHP Vijaya Rao MD Marianny Sulbaran, MSc, PhD Lin Chang EndoCollab™ | GI Endoscopy Community Jason Klapman David Diehl Harshit S. Khara, MD, FACG, FASGE Radhika Sharma, DO Venkata Sandeep Akshintala Syed Hamza Sohail Meir Mizrahi MD, FASGE Raymond E Kim Frank Jesse Lukens, M.D. Victoria Gomez ESGE ACG current guidelines for peptic ulcers: For F1-FIIa → Recommend endoscopic therapy FIIb→ Could not reach consensus FIIc-FIII→ Conservative management #ScopingSundays



🔥A session not to be missed covering 👇 ▪️Screening: 🩸& 💩 Testing ▪️Optimizing Colonoscopy: Timing and Quality ▪️Innovations in Endoscopic Polyp Resection ➰ ▪️Empowering Patients: 🥤for Colonoscopy and CRC Prevention #GITwitter👉Tune in #ScopingSundays @ 2PM🕝EST tomorrow

SAVE THE DATE for our annual WashU Therapeutic Endoscopy and Fellows Course. August 21s and 22nd here at WashU Medicine. Travel grants available for fellows to cover airfare and accommodation. Full details including faculty lineup to follow! Arvind Rengarajan, MD Judy Trieu, MD, MPH Vladimir Kushnir


Missed out on the 🔥🔥 #ScopingSundays & Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication (EBGI) collab session past weekend on “#CRCPrevention - From Screening to Resection” Check out the #ScopingSummary of the discussion by Mohammad Bilal, MD , Umer Farooq & Romy Chamoun, MD Special 🙏 Chidi E. Omaliko to for the summary


📢Attn #IMresidents: Don't miss your opportunity to be the 2025-2026 Social Media Ambassador for ACG Case Reports Journal! Work w/ the Editorial Board to share ACGCRJ cases & podcasts 📅Apply by April 30 🔗bit.ly/acgcrj-sm-25 Prateek Harne MBBS, MD Nadeem Yousaf Inside The Match


We are looking forward to our Annual WashU Advanced Endoscopy Course and Hands-on course for fellows. Delighted to host colleagues for lectures and hands on sessions. See attached itinerary. Fellows travel grants are available. for more info: sites.wustl.edu/washucme/thera… Vladimir Kushnir


Excited to share our publication in JGH, highlighting the implications of obesity on Alcoholic hepatitis. Thanks to Hassam Ali, MD Vinay Jahagirdar Umer Farooq. Grateful to Sushil Ahlawat, MD, FACP for mentoring this project. AASLD American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) ACG #GITwitter


ACGCRJ Editors’ luncheon at Digestive Disease Week! What an honor to have served as EIC with these trailblazers! 🥼🩺 Nadeem Yousaf Daniyal Abbas Dan Marino MD MBA Umer Farooq Rahul Karna, MD Dushyant Singh Dahiya, MD Krystal Mills Himesh Zaver, MD Tina Boortalary Ahmed Telbany MD, MPH


⏰ for #ACGCRJ Tweetorial🧵w/ Rahul Karna, MD & Nadeem Yousaf 🎙️EVT for treatment of a-Fib ablation-induced esophageal perforation👇 🎧Podcast bit.ly/3ymjTvy 📚Article bit.ly/4jQo84X 🙏Ahmad N. Bazarbashi أحمد بازارباشي Larissa Lushniak Prateek Harne MBBS, MD ACG


The ACG #ChiefFellows course now on the way 🔥🔥 Mentoring sessions & informal networking Course directors Adam C. Ehrlich, MD, MPH, FACG Ariel Aday Becky Matro MD kicking it off #FutureOfGI is 🔥🔥




Daniyal Abbas Dushyant Singh Dahiya, MD Welcome, 2025-2026 ACG Case Reports Journal Associate Editors! #GIfellows Hassam Ali, MD Khaled Alsabbagh Zaid Ansari Aastha Bharwad Arjun Chatterjee Umer Farooq Fouad Jaber, MD, MS Abel Joseph Rahul Karna, MD Faisal Nimri Sanjeevani Tomar, MD


🎉 Huge congratulations to our very own Dr. Umer Farooq on matching into Advanced Endoscopy at the Center for Interventional Endoscopy in Orlando, FL! We are incredibly proud of all you’ve accomplished and can’t wait to see the impact you will make in the field. ASGE GI Endoscopy
