Providers/Grant Support

This activity is provided by MLI

This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc and Sanofi.

Credits Available

Certification type(s): 1.0AMA, AAPA, ANCC

All other healthcare professionals completing this course will be issued a statement of participation.

Target Audience

Gastroenterology (GIs) physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician associates (PAs).

Program Overview

Stuck on EoE marks the latest installment in the innovative reelCE™ series—a micro-video, social-first CME/CE initiative designed to educate busy healthcare professionals through fast, high-impact content. This activity targets gastroenterologists, emergency medicine physicians, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician associates with specialty-specific tracks focused on the timely recognition and personalized management of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).

This reelCE™ series dives into advanced EoE management for GI specialists, covering insights in EoE pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria, newly approved and late-stage therapies, and the role of T2 inflammation. Through concise, high-yield videos, GI clinicians will explore updated ACG guidelines and learn to integrate novel therapies into personalized, multidisciplinary care plans for improved long-term outcomes.

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

Describe the pathogenesis of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), including the role of Type 2 inflammation
Diagnose EoE using evidence-based guidelines
Assess the mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety of both recently approved agents for the treatment of EoE and those in late-stage development
Develop personalized multidisciplinary care strategies for patients with EoE using current and updated guidelines

Faculty

Supriya Rao MD, DABOM, DABLM

Managing Partner, Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA

Supriya Rao, MD DABOM DABLM is a quadruple board-certified physician in internal medicine, gastroenterology, obesity medicine and lifestyle medicine who focuses on digestive disorders, gut health, the microbiome, and metabolic health. She is a managing partner and heads the Metabolic and Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants in the Greater Boston area. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is passionate about empowering people to improve their health through sustainable changes in their lifestyle and runs an intensive lifestyle medicine curriculum through her office. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Rao is a content creator and spends time educating on social media. She is a well known media expert and helps promote science and evidence as ways to help patients in a more practical setting.

Wendi LeBrett MD

Gastroenterologist
Educator @socalgastrodoc
Founder ModernGut
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dr. Wendi LeBrett is a double board-certified gastroenterologist and internal medicine physician. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University and graduated from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology subspecialty fellowship at UCLA. Her research has been published in several leading gastroenterology journals including Gastroenterology, The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology, and The Lancet Gastroenterology.

Dr. LeBrett is passionate about educating the public about digestive health and fighting medical misinformation on social media. She has over 250K followers on TikTok and Instagram and creates educational content as @socalgastrodoc. She was recognized by her peers in the field of gastroenterology as Healio Gastroenterology’s Social Media Influencer of the Year 2023. She is a trusted voice on gastrointestinal health and has been featured in TIME, SELF, the Huffington Post, Business Insider and Well+Good. She is the founder of ModernGut, a gastroenterology education platform.

James Tabibian MD, PhD, FACP, FASGE, FACG, AGAF

Medical Director of the Advanced Gastroenterology Center
Adventist Health Glendale
Clinical Professor, Western University of Health Sciences
Glendale, CA, USA

Dr. James Tabibian, MD, PhD, FACP, FASGE, FACG, AGAF is a Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist at Adventist Health Glendale. He is the Medical Director of the Advanced Gastroenterology Center and a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine in the Western University of Health Sciences. Prior to joining Adventist Health in 2023, he was a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of Endoscopy at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

Dr. Tabibian attended UC Davis as an undergraduate majoring in International Relations and received his MD degree from UCLA with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He completed Residency training in the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program at Johns Hopkins and went on to become the first ABIM Research Pathway fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic Rochester. While at Mayo Clinic, he was also recruited to be an NIH T32-funded fellow and completed a PhD through Mayo Graduate School, Center for Clinical and Translational Studies. Following his training at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Tabibian joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Instructor of Medicine and Advanced Endoscopy Fellow. At the terminus of his year there, Dr. Tabibian moved back to California to join the faculty at UC Davis Medical Center as an Assistant Professor and Director of Fellow Research.

Family needs brought Dr. Tabibian back to Southern California in 2017, where he’s practiced ever since. Dr. Tabibian is experienced in endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), and luminal stenting, among other advanced procedures. He has over 200 peer-reviewed articles indexed in PubMed and is the author of the book “Digestive Problems Solved: A Patient’s Guide to Expert Insights and Solutions” as well as the invited author of numerous book chapters. He serves as a biomedical consultant nationally and internationally, on the Editorial Board of several journals, and an expert medical reviewer in Gastroenterology for the Medical Board of California.

Accreditation, Support and Credit

In support of improving patient care, Medical Learning Institute Inc is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician Continuing Medical Education
Medical Learning Institute Inc (MLI) designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Medical Learning Institute Inc has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until October 30, 2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nursing Continuing Professional Development
Successful completion of this nursing continuing professional development activity will be awarded 1.0 contact hour and 0.25 contact hour in the area of pharmacology.

Disclosures of Conflict of Interest

Medical Learning Institute Inc is committed to providing high quality continuing education to healthcare professionals, as individuals and teams, with a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from ineligible companies that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education. To that end, MLI requires faculty, presenters, planners, staff, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this CE activity to disclose all financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies as defined by the ACCME, as related to the content of this CE activity, regardless of the amount or their view of the relevance to the education. All identified COI will be thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to MLI policy. These disclosures will be provided to learners prior to the start of the CE activity

Faculty Disclosures

Chair/Planner/Presenter
Supriya Rao, MD, DABOM, DABLM, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.

Planner/Presenter
Wendi LeBrett, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:
Consultant/Advisor: Bellway, Entrinsic Bioscience, Nestlé Health Science, Procter & Gamble
Other: Owner, Shares of Stock: Pico Health Inc.; Owner, Stock Options: Totally Normal Company

Planner/Presenter
James Tabibian, MD, PhD, FACP, FASGE, FACG, AGAF, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.

All of the relevant financial relationships of individuals for this activity have been mitigated.

Planning Committee and Content/Peer Reviewers

The planners and content/peer reviewers from Medical Learning Institute Inc, the accredited provider, do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies unless listed below.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussions of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this CE activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the CE activity are those of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

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