Guide to AGA Institute and Digestive Disease Week Program Pages

Guide to AGA Institute and Digestive Disease Week Program Pages ORAL SESSIONS The pages in this section contain information about DDW oral sessions. How the Oral Session Listings are organized: • Date • Postgraduate courses and special courses (these are listed before all other sessions) • Session start time • Sponsoring society (alphabetically) • Speaker type (Invited speaker sessions then abstract sessions • Session Title What do all those numbers mean? All presentations within each session are numbered. There are three different types of numbering within the book. 1. Speaker with the prefix “Sp” are invited speakers 2. Speakers with # followed by numbers are oral abstract presenters Key to Icons Ticket Icon—designates a session for which an additional fee is required. * An author of an abstract with an asterisk (*) is the presenting author. POSTER SESSIONS The pages in this section contain information about DDW poster sessions. Presentations are numbered starting with an “S”, “M”, “T” or a “W” denoting the day the abstract will be displayed. (S=Sunday; M=Monday; T=Tuesday; W= Wednesday) How the Poster Session Listings are organized: • Date • Specialty Track (Clinical, Basic or Combined) • Society (AASLD, AGA Institute, ASGE & SSAT) • Sponsor (AGA Institute only – Section Sponsor) • Session Title Key to Icons  Poster of Distinction – designates a poster that has been selected by the DDW Societies (except ASGE) as noteworthy. Posters with this designation will have ribbons on their poster boards.