Bashar Attar
Cook County Health and Hospitals System, USA
Biography
Bashar M Attar is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Rush University Medical 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.
Abstract
Abstract : Subclinical exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI): A disease that merits treatment