The Hirshberg Foundation is excited to announce that Dr. Muthusamy will be joining us at the 20th Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer to discuss endoscopic approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cysts and tumors.
This presentation will review the role of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) in assessing pancreatic cysts – including EUS imaging characteristics, the role of EUS-guided cyst fluid analysis, and the utility of EUS-guided tissue acquisition techniques. In addition, existing and proposed EUS-guided therapies for cyst ablation will be discussed, including a review of available data.
V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS, is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is the Medical Director of Endoscopy for the UCLA Health System. He holds the Leon J. Tiber, MD, and David S. Alpert, MD Chair in Medicine. His clinical research interests include endoscopic eradication techniques for Barrett’s esophagus, pancreatic diseases, clinical applications of EUS and ERCP, as well as endoscope reprocessing. Dr. Muthusamy has helped develop quality metrics in Barrett’s esophagus and led the initial multi-center evaluation of the first single-use duodenoscope.
Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center, where he served as the director of the GI Fellowship Program, as well as director of Endoscopic Ultrasound at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Muthusamy completed his undergraduate work at Stanford University with distinction and went to medical school at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he graduated with Honors. His residency was undertaken at Duke University Medical Center where he served as assistant chief resident and traveled abroad to study evidence-based medicine under Dr. David Sackett at Oxford University. He completed his GI fellowship at UCSF before undertaking his advanced endoscopy fellowship at UCI, which he completed in 2001.
Dr. Muthusamy is a past-president of the Orange County GI Society and a current Councilor and a Past-President of the Southern California Society of Gastroenterology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), and the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA). He served two three-year terms as the ACG Governor for Southern California and is a past Chair of the AGA’s Center for GI Innovation and Technology. He has served as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Gastroenterology and previously Co-Directed the ASGE’s Improving Quality and Safety in Your Endoscopy Unit courses for several years. Currently, he is Chair of the AGA Council’s Pancreas Section and is the Educational Affairs Chair for the ACG.
This is a valuable presentation for our pancreatic cancer community, and we are happy to welcome Dr. Muthusamy to the 20th Annual Symposium to discuss Endoscopic Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Cysts and Tumors.
