Date: Saturday, Feb. 22, 8 am- 3 pm
Location:
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
7200 Cambridge, Houston, Texas 77030
The 2024 symposium theme is "Immune Dysregulation and Digestive Diseases"
Contact Information:
- Dionysia Briscoe, DDC Coordinator, dionysia.briscoe@bcm.edu
- Sara Tristan, DDC Administrator, escamill@bcm.edu
Accreditation/Credit Designation Statements
Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Opportunity for Physician and Physician Assistant QI Poster Authors and Co-Authors to earn Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4 Credits.
Click here for full CME information.
Posters and Abstracts
The DDC is currently accepting any digestive diseases related abstracts and posters for our 16th Annual Frontiers in Digestive Diseases Symposium.
The deadline to submit an abstract is Jan. 17, 2025.
Please note to participate in the poster competition, you must submit a PDF of your poster via our online system by the 11:59 pm deadline on Feb. 3, 2025. If you do not plan on competing, you can bring your printed poster with you to the symposium on Feb. 22, 2025.
Submit your abstract / poster today!
All submission must adhere to the following format guidelines:
For Abstracts:
- Upload a Microsoft Word document (Do not submit PDFs)
- Save the File as Last Name, First Name - DDC 2025
- One page, single-spaced in Arial 11
- 1” margins on all sides
- Title should be centered with only the first word capitalized
- List all authors and institutions, underline presenting author and institution
For Posters:
- Upload a PDF document
- Printed posters should not exceed 4’ x 4’
Judging / Awards:
The DDC is pleased to offer the top three posters with an invitation to the private dinner with DDC leadership and speakers following the Saturday symposium. We will also offer $250-$1,000 vouchers for supplies or travel. Winners will be announced during our 16th Annual Frontiers in Digestive Diseases Symposium on February 22, 2025.
Previous Symposiums
Since 2009, our annual scientific symposium, which is organized in conjunction with the DDC Annual Retreat, has featured cutting-edge thematic topics. This annual event has steadily grown in popularity with both in-person and virtual attendance.
Recent themes of symposia have included:
- (2024) Frontiers in GI Cell Biology: Crosstalk and Communication
- (2023) Metabolic Communication in Digestive Diseases
- (2022) Single Cell Biology
- (2021) Phages, Viruses & Digestive Diseases
- (2020) The Gut as an Endocrine Organ: Implications for GI and Liver Disease
- (2019) Infection and Injury as a Precursor to GI and Liver Cancer
- (2018) Frontiers of the Microbiome Gut-Brain Axis
- (2017) Emerging Significance of Bile Acids in Digestive and Liver Diseases
- (2016) Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine in Digestive and Liver Disease
- (2015) Frontiers in IBD 2015
- (2014) The Gut Microbiome in GI Health & Disease
- (2013) Stem Cells in GI Health & Disease
- (2011) Epigenetics in GI Health and Disease
- (2010) Infection in GI Health and Disease
- (2009) Inflammation and GI Research