We continue the Innovation series where I will speak with physicians, executives, entrepreneurs and leaders who are spearheading us into the next frontier of medicine and gastroenterology. Torrey Smith, an aerospace engineer by training, fits that description completely. He is CEO and co-founder of Endiatx which is pioneering the PillBot - a remotely controlled, motorized pill camera that can look at the stomach. Listen in and if you want to learn more, visit https://www.endiatx.com/mission.

This is the inaugural episode in the new Innovation series. In this series of the Gut Doctor Podcast, I will speak with physicians, executives, entrepreneurs and leaders who are spearheading us into the next frontier of medicine and gastroenterology. In this episode we discuss physician burnout with Parastoo Jangouk, MD. Parastoo is a gastroenterologist, certified mindfulness business coach and the co-founder of SOULpreneurMD (https://www.soulpreneurmd.com/).

In the GI 101 series, Dr. Parikh interviews one of the training physicians to get their perspective on a variety of gastrointestinal topics. In today's episode, he speaks with Dr. Neil Khoury, a gastroenterology fellow at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Khoury discusses the new guidelines for management of acute pancreatitis.

March is colon cancer awareness month so in today's episode, I discuss oncologic treatment options for colorectal cancer with Dr. Hardeep Phull. Dr. Phull is Medical Director of Oncology at Palomar Health and Clinical Instructor at the University of California San Diego. He gives a bird's-eye perspective on the steps from colon cancer diagnosis to potential therapy as well as discusses chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

The doctor becomes the patient in this episode of the Gut Doctor podcast when Dr. Parikh's partner, Dr. John Wysocki- a fellow gastroenterologist- comes to the endoscopy center for his first screening colonoscopy.

In this episode of the Gut Doctor podcast, Dr. Michael Wallace, Professor of Medicine and Director of Digestive Research and Innovation at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, discusses current and future applications of artificial intelligence in the field of GI endoscopy.

In the GI 101 series, Dr. Parikh interviews one of the training physicians to get their perspective on a variety of gastrointestinal topics. In this episode, Dr. Kevin Groudan, a gastroenterology fellow at Baystate Health, discusses one of the most commonly used first line agents for constipation: polyethylene glycol.

Does wine have health benefits? In this episode of the Food as Medicine series, Dr. Parikh interviews Dhavan Parikh, an interventional gastroenterologist who practices in the Pacific Northwest, a burgeoning wine region in America. They discuss all things wine and health including polyphenols, resveratrol, and the "French paradox."