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Location: Medical University of South Carolina, 68 President Street, Bioengineering Building, Room 112, Charleston, SC 29403
Time: 5:00 p.m. Patient to patient discussion group
6:00 p.m. Break
6:30 p.m. Lecture
Expert Speaker: Dr. Amol Sharma
Patient Speaker: TBA
Topic: What I, as a Gastroenterologist, have learned from my hEDS patients, interactions with peers, and the limited literature over the past year
Dr. Sharma is the Donald O. Castell Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) with a clinical and translational focus in Neurogastroenterology & Motility (NGM), particularly diabetic gastroparesis and Parkinson’s disease. He obtained his medical degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, completed internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospitals, and GI fellowship at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Sharma’s research focus is understanding the pathophysiology of gut-brain axis in various conditions and developing innovative, non-invasive, and promising neuromodulation therapies through his insights, outstanding mentorship and collaborations, and his engineering background. He currently serves as principal investigator of a NIH-funded multi-center, randomized, sham-controlled study investigating thoracic neuromodulation for diabetic gastroparesis and one of the multiple PIs of one of the 5 centers in the NIDDK-supported Gut-Brain Parkinson’s Disease Consortium.
