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NOTICESThe Notices section of GASTROENTEROLOGY publishes announcements of activities that are of interest to our readership. All Noticesare limited to 100 words and must contain the following information: title of meeting, date, place, and the address of the contactperson. Send announcements and your list of desired publication dates to: GASTROENTEROLOGY Notices, 7910 Woodmont Avenue,7th Floor, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. We cannot publish Notices received less than 3 months before the desired publicationdate. The AGA reserves the right to reject any advertisement.
REGULATORY PEPTIDES 2002
The 14th International Symposium on Regulatory Peptides will beheld August 31–September 3, 2002, in Boston, Massachusetts. Theprogram will feature state-of-the-art lectures as well as oral and posterpresentations selected from submitted abstracts. Topics include pep-tides and development/differentiation, peptides and inflammation,growth factors and cell proliferation, regulation of energy homeosta-sis, food intake, and integrative biology of GI peptides. Program andregistration are available at the website (www.regpep2002.com).Contact: Joyce M. Fried, UCLA School of Medicine, Office of the
Dean, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095-1722;call (310) 794-1958; fax (818) 368-9243; or e-mail [email protected].
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOLDIVISION OF COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY COURSE:
ENDORECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY
This course, “Endorectal Ultrasonography,” will be held September10, 2002, at Radisson Riverfront St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota.Accreditation is 7 hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMAPhysician’s Recognition Award.Contact: Continuing Medical Education, University of Minnesota,
Suite 190, 200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455; call(612) 626-7600; toll free 1-800-776-8636; fax (612) 626-7766; orvisit CME Home Page Location of the Internet at http://www.med.umn.edu/cme.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOLDIVISION OF COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY
WORKSHOP: PELVIC FLOOR WORKSHOP: TESTING,PATIENT SIMULATION AND EVALUATION
This workshop, “Pelvic Floor Workshop: Testing, Patient Simu-lation and Evaluation,” will be held September 11, 2002, at RadissonRiverfront St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. Accreditation is 6 hours inCategory 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.Contact: Continuing Medical Education, University of Minnesota,
Suite 190, 200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455; call(612) 626-7600; toll free 1-800-776-8636; fax (612) 626-7766; orvisit CME Home Page Location of the Internet at http://www.med.umn.edu/cme.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOLDIVISION OF COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY COURSE:
COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY: PRINCIPLES ANDPRACTICE 2002
This course, “Colon and Rectal Surgery: Principles and Practice2002,” will be held September 12–14, 2002, at the Radisson River-front St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. Accreditation is 18 hours in
Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.Contact Continuing Medical Education, University of Minnesota,
Suite 190, 200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455; call(612) 626-7600; toll free 1-800-776-8636; fax (612) 626-7766; orvisit CME Home Page Location of the Internet at http://www.med.umn.edu/cme.
4TH ANNUAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGYUPDATE
Presented by The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,Office of Continuing Medical Education in conjunction with theDivision of Gastroenterology, this meeting will be held September19–21, 2002, at the Rittenhouse Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.This course is designed for academic and community-based gastro-enterologists, hepatologists, surgeons, pathologists, internists, fel-lows, and allied health professionals. The conference will provide anupdate and review of important topics in subdisciplines of gastroen-terology and hepatology (EGB, IBD, cancer, hepatology, pancreati-cobiliary disease, and endoscopy). Each module will consist of 3lectures on general topics of clinical and practical importance, astate-of-the-art lecture on a major topic of current interest, and casediscussions with opportunities for discussion. A maximum of 21hours in AMA Category 1 credit hours will be awarded.Contact: The Office of Continuing Medical Education, University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 333 Blockley Hall, 423 GuardianDrive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6021; call (215) 898-6400;fax (215) 898-1888; or e-mail [email protected].
AMERICAN MOTILITY SOCIETY 12TH BIENNIAL MEETING
The American Motility Society will hold its 12th biennial meetingon September 19–22, 2002, at the Moody Gardens Hotel and Con-vention Center in Galveston, Texas. This meeting will bring togetherbasic scientists and clinical investigators to discuss the newest devel-opments in the fields of gastrointestinal motility, neurogastroenter-ology, and functional bowel disorders. The meeting will consist ofeducational symposia that will present a balanced view of basic andclinical research in the form of oral/poster presentations and in-depthscientific workshops.Contact: Jiande Chen, Ph.D., The University of Texas Medical
Branch, Division of Gastroenterology, 301 University Boulevard,4.106 McCullough Building, Galveston, Texas 77555-0764; call(409) 747-3071; fax (409) 747-3084; or visit www2.utmb.edu/gipacing/AMS2002.
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ERCP FORNURSES WITH HANDS-ON LABORATORY
This is an interactive course for nurses and assistants, which will beheld September 26–27, 2002. Didactic sessions will be presented by
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