2025 ACG/VGS/MASGNA Postgraduate Course in Gastroenterology A Great Success!

The Virginia Gastroenterological Society co-hosted the 26th annual ACG/VGS/ODSGNA meeting September 5–7, 2025 at the Williamsburg Lodge. The 2025 course directors brought together regional and national thought leaders in the field of gastroenterology for a comprehensive learning weekend:

  • Patty T. Wang, MD
  • Dennis Kumral, MD, FACG
  • Eileen Dauz, BSN, RN, CGRN, CFER, CER
  • Catherine Bauman, RNBS, MBA, CGRN, CFER

The three-day course kicked off Friday with the ACG Esophagus School (8.25 CME/MOC Credits). On Saturday and Sunday, the ACG/VGS/MASGNA Regional Postgraduate Course in Gastroenterology offered sessions on Upper GI/Motility, Liver, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Functional GI, Fellows’ Presentations, Pancreaticobiliary Disease, Lower GI, and Endoscopy (11.25 CME/MOC pts). The Alvin M. Zfass, MD, MACG Lecture was delivered on Sunday morning by Dr. Vivek Kaul, University of Rochester Medical Center: Difficult Bile Duct Stones: How I Do It.

The 2026 meeting will be held on a *SPECIAL EARLY DATE* August 28–30, 2026 at the Williamsburg Lodge. We invite all attendees and their families to visit historic Colonial Williamsburg during the meeting — where “the future may learn from the past.”

For more information on the course, including registration links, visit the Annual Meeting page this spring.

Please follow the VGS on @X at @VirginiaGastro. Thank you for your continued support of the Virginia Gastroenterological Society. We look forward to seeing you next September in Williamsburg!

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