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ACGME-I Welcomes James A. Arrighi, MD, as New President and CEO
June 09, 2021 11:12 ET | Source: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Chicago, Illinois, UNITED STATES
Chicago, IL, June 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today ACGME International (ACGME-I) announced James A. Arrighi, MD as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective September 2021. In this role, Dr. Arrighi will focus on expanding the organization globally, forging partnerships with medical educators, and prioritizing opportunities and educational programs in developing countries with limited resources.
“Dr. Arrighi brings a wealth of knowledge in graduate medical education, innovation, and strategic leadership to ACGME-I,” said Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, president and chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and Chair of the ACGME-I
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Bethesda, MD (May 14, 2021) Inpatient consults for alcohol-related gastrointestinal (GI) and liver diseases have surged since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and remained elevated, according to research selected for presentation at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2021. The proportion of patients that required inpatient endoscopic interventions for their alcohol-related GI and liver diseases has also increased, highlighting an apparent worsening trend in the severity of disease. When we went into lockdown, many people experienced significant negative impacts, such as social isolation, job loss and an increase in anxiety and depression, said Waihong Chung, MD, PhD, lead researcher of the study and a research fellow for the Division of Gastroenterology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. These experiences may have led people to increase their alcohol consumption, which could explain why we are seeing a surge in the vo