Update on gastroenterology and liver disease. Serial lectures - invitation by the United Nations Tokten Program. Istanbul University Medical School, Istanbul and Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey 1988.

Gallstones and biliary lithotripsy. Annual National Meeting of Knights of Columbus, Physicians Division, New Orleans, LA 1988.

Coordinator in gastroenterology section's postgraduate course by American College of Physicians, 10th. Annual New Orleans Internal Medicine Board Review Course. Lectures: (1) Peptic ulcer and its complications, (2) Endocrine tumors of the pancreas, New Orleans, LA, 1988.

Nonsurgical treatment of gallstone disease. Surgery grand rounds by invitation. Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA, 1988.

Endoscopic therapeutic modalities. Invitation by Fort Worth Medical Association as a Christmas dinner speaker, Ft. Worth, TX, 1988.

Biliary lithotripsy - Tulane Experience. Baton Rouge Medical Association's Annual Meeting. Lecture by invitation. Baton Rouge, LA, 1989.

Postgraduate course on gastroenterology and liver disease. Course director and serial lectures. 1) Vascular malformations of the GI tract, 2) Gay bowel syndrome, 3) Chronic pancreatitis, 4) Endoscopic sphincterotomy and biliary lithotripsy. New Orleans, LA, 1989.

Medstone 1050 - ST; Evaluation of ESBL results. Invitation by the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania. Gallstone lithotripsy and litholysis symposium. Philadelphia, PA, 1989.

Efficacy and safety of external shock-wave lithotripsy for treatment of gallstones. Invited speaker to FDA panel. Bethesda, MD, 1989.

The National and Tulane's experience with efficacy and safety of external shock-wave lithotripsy and adjuvant ursodiol for treatment of radiolucent gallstones. Medical Advisory Committee Meeting of Medstone, International, Indianapolis, IN, 1989.

Non-surgical treatment of gallstone disease. Invitation by the Istanbul University Medical School, and external shock-wave biliary lithotripsy for gallstones and common bile duct stones. Invitation by the Turkish Gastroenterological Society and Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey 1989.

Annual meeting of the Southern American Federation for Clinical Research, papers for oral presentation session: 1) Effect of LEU13 (GH2NH)LEU14- bombesin on bombesin-stimulated gastric acid and amylase secretion in vivo, 2) Effects of stress on gastric and duodenal somatostatin-like immunoreactivity in rats, 3) Hydrochloric acid stimulated regional differences in prostaglandin E2 formation by gastroduodenal mucosa, 4) Preventive action of galanin on aspirin plus hydrochloric acid induced gastric ulcer formation in rats, 5) Shockwave lithotripsy of gallbladder stones with a second generation machine, 6) Preventive effect of a potent bombesin receptor antagonist analogue on aspirin plus hydrochloric acid-induced gastric ulcer formation in rats, and for poster presentation: 7) Neurotensin (NT) elevates portal venous somatostatin (SS) concentration doses that inhibit acid secretion in anesthetized rats. New Orleans, LA, 1989.

Preventive action of galanin on aspirin plus hydrochloric acid-induced gastric ulcer formation in rats. Annual Meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association, Washington, D.C., 1989.

Shock-wave lithotripsy of gallstones with the Medstone Lithotripter. 17th. International Congress of Radiology, Paris, France, 1989.

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