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Volume 8
Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
ISSN: 2161-069X
Gastro Congress 2018
August 20-21, 2018
Page 58
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August 20-21, 2018 | Rome, Italy
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Gastroenterology Conference
Biography
Bashar MAttar is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Rush UniversityMedical Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is also the system-wide Chairman of Gastroenterology
and Hepatology at Cook County Health and Hospitals System. He has special interest acute and chronic pancreatitis as well as potential mechanisms contributing to
pancreatic cancer. He has an avid interest in viral hepatitis, metabolic and cholestatic liver disorders including bile transport. He is the Recipient of the President Diversity
Award by the ASGE (2010); Recipient of the prestigious National “Parker J Palmer Courage to Teach Award” by the ACGME (2015) which was granted in recognition of
extraordinary accomplishment in Graduate Medical Education. He has been recently elected (2017) to the Humanism Honor Society in recognition of exemplary service,
integrity, clinical excellence and compassion.
battar@rush.edu