Frontline IBD: Hot Topics

Thank you for listening to this podcast, where Frontline Gastroenterology Trainee Editor Dr Philip Smith talks to Professor Edward Loftus, Professor of Gastroenterology and IBD at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. The podcast is an accompaniment to the Frontline Gastroenterology Twitter Debate (#FGDebate) held on Monday 11th May 2015, at 9-10pm GMT entitled, 'Frontline IBD: Hot topics in IBD’. For a summary of the debate please visit the storify page: https://storify.com/FrontGastro_BMJ/frontline-ibd-hot-topics-in-ibd The purpose of the podcast is to 'fill any gaps' the #FGDebate may have left. Professor Loftus has also provided the slides he used in #FGDebate to help those interested in the hot topics he covered. We hope you enjoy this and that it is informative. View the slides: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2aZuY6foZ0wSEprMkdQQVB2Qzg&usp=sharing Don't miss the next Special DDW Twitter #FGDebate with Dr Andreas Cardenas, Staff Member of the Institute of Digestive Diseases and Metabolism at the Hospital Clinic and University of Barcelona and Associate Editor for Frontline Gastroenterology, on Tuesday 9th June 2015, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, "Frontline Hepatology: complications with cirrhosis focusing on portal hypertension"