Maria T. Abreu

I am an IBDologist & current president of @AmerGastroAssn. Specializing in #Crohns & #Colitis. In my spare time, I enjoy🏃🏻‍♀️, 🚴🏻‍♀️, & 🏊🏻‍♀️. Tweets mine

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Mark your calendars! The 2026 Cedars-Sinai Gastroenterology & GI Surgery Symposium is coming to Universal City, CA — October 23–25. Register at the link! https://t.co/x0Mnh8xT8g #GIHealth #Gastroenterology

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Women w/ IBD face unique challenges that are often overlooked. Dr. Puja Khanna shares how hormonal changes throughout a woman's life — from puberty to menopause — can impact #IBD symptoms, fertility, & care. A great read for patients & clinicians alike. https://t.co/613p0oZRWc

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Dr. Gil Melmed (@gym99) & fellow BRIDGe experts break down the landmark 2025 ACG IBD Guidelines on their new podcast — what's changed, what matters, & how clinicians can apply it today. Follow & listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & more! https://t.co/4VdHslR2l0

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Our own Dr. Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin joins the GlycanTrigger Podcast to unpack the connection between diet, the gut microbiome, and IBD. A must-listen for anyone in the IBD space! #IBD #CrohnsDisease #UlerativeColitis #GIHealth

https://t.co/o2MRCywhTH

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Our team joined the annual Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Take Steps Walk to show up for the #IBD community — and we are thrilled to share that we took home the Golden Colon award for the second year in a row! 🏆 So proud of this team and everyone who came out to walk.

[Healio Gastroenterology @HealioGastro]

🗨️ “Combining anti-TNF and anti-IL-23 was safe and showed superiority in the toughest to treat #UlcerativeColitis patients,” said Dr. @ibddocmaria

❗@JNJNews’ co-antibody combination also helped treat #Crohns, parallel studies at #DDW2026 found. https://t.co/ZL2CgAmeNk

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Our very own Dr. Puja Khanna joined Connecting to Cure's live podcast event 'A Body Owner's Guide to IBD' on May 16th. An incredible evening of education, advocacy, & community. So proud of Dr. Khanna for sharing her expertise & time with the #IBD community!

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

Honored to be recognized as one of Becker's 5 GI Power Players ❤️ This work is only possible because of the patients who inspire us every day & trust us with their care. Grateful to be part of such a passionate community pushing IBD research forward. #IBD https://t.co/Oh8SJPVYax

[VoiceForIBD @VoiceForIBD]

Exciting news for #IBD patients with both the #CD and #UC trials! 👏🏼 Thank you @ibddocmaria and @bruce_sands1 for your commitment to these trials!

[Maria T. Abreu @ibddocmaria]

I was proud to present Phase 2b results from the DUET-UC trial at @DDWMeeting 2026, showing that a novel dual-antibody therapy targeting IL-23 & TNF produced stronger outcomes than either drug alone in patients with treatment-resistant #UlcerativeColitis. https://t.co/aPcEWaWeza

[American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @AmerGastroAssn]

Thank you to @LarryKimMD for his leadership as AGA's 120th president! As a community practitioner and longtime AGA leader, Dr. Kim understood what GIs face and positioned AGA to lead GI into the future.

Join us in thanking him for his contributions!

[Mariam Naveed, MD @MN_GIMD]

Design thinking isn't just for tech. It's a framework for solving complex problems - including the ones that hold women back in medicine.

Join us at @DDWMeeting for the @AmerGastroAssn Women's Committee Symposium: Applying Design Thinking to Advancing Equity for Women

@MccutchenDr @IBD_Afzali #CuckooChoudhary #SarahBlutt

📅 Sunday, May 3 · 10–11:30 am
📍 Room W184bc, McCormick Place

And stay for the full weekend of Women in GI programming:

🔹 8 am — Gastroenterology Women's Coalition
🔹 1 pm — WExLC Alumni Network (RSVP)
🔹 Mon May 4, 11:45 am — Beacon of Hope Luncheon (RSVP)

👊

#DDW2026 #WomenInGI #AGAWomenInGI #WomenInMedicine

[Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF @DCharabaty]

⏳Counting down the days to #DDW2026

🚨Don’t miss the #IBD 🌟 EduSocial event Sat May 2nd !

🤝Join 💎 Faculty, Advocates & Supporters to collaborate & improve patient-centered IBD care !

📲Places limited, Register👉🏽https://t.co/SWG7OAQPwQ

[Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF @DCharabaty]

🌸Go @AmCollegeGastro #ACGFamily IBD team “Inflamed But Determined”

🏁Finishing strong the #CherryBlossom 10milers!

TY @AmyOxentenkoMD & #KathrynDriggers for organizing
#JudyTrieu for the cool tattoo
& @ReezwanaCMD Happy Run-iversary, our 1st half marathon together was in 2014!

[Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS @BrennanSpiegel]

AI came up with a diagnosis in under a minute that the students missed.

That’s powerful.

But if the machine thinks for us…
how do the next generation of doctors learn to think at all?

This is the tension we need to solve.

More in the video below 👇

[American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) @AmerGastroAssn]

#APPs: Apply or nominate yourself or a deserving colleague for the AGA-@Pfizer Beacon of Hope Awards for Gender and Health #Equity!

🔗 Applications due Feb. 9. https://t.co/EvO7BPYh7Z

@AmyStewartNP

[Mariam Naveed, MD @MN_GIMD]

This year marks the 5th anniversary of @ScrubsNHeels Women’s Leadership Conference.

Yes, it’s about leadership.
But it’s also about so much more.

It’s a weekend that belongs to us.
Permission to show up fully.
Space to learn, reflect, and grow, without performing.
A setting designed to inspire, not exhaust.

Every year I learn something new.
But what stays with me are the women.
The conversations.
The shared experiences.
The reminder that none of us are doing this alone.

If you’ve never attended, this is the year.
Come see what the fuss is about.
Come for the leadership.
Stay for the community.

All women in GI.
You belong here.

And yes it’s AI & I’m learning so cut me some slack 🫠

[Mark Pimentel MD @MarkPimentelMD]

Happy New Year from @MASTprogram! We are looking forward to 2026. Exciting treatments and discoveries in #SIBO, #IMO, #ISO, #IBS and the #microbiome
1. Phase IIB study on new drug for IBS-D that specifically treats hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide on breath test. Starting in 2 weeks.
2. Advancement of anti-methanogen program to hopefully be able to start human trials of new drug in early 2027.
3. Development of drug to treat anti-vinculin #IBS patients. Great progress here!
4. Further understanding of #SIBO in multi-omics approach. Other treatment approaches possible.
5. Publish the studies showing the critical importance of measuring three gases on breath testing. That's coming out soon.
6. Data from the pediatric #REIMAGINE study will begin to emerge.
7. New bacterial relationships in obesity, liver disease and metabolic disorders (just wait and see) from #REIMAGINE and possibly new drug here.
8. Many others...stay tuned.

[Elliot Tapper @ebtapper]

We will celebrate all year
And at ACG 2026 in Nashville, I have been promised celebratory hot chicken

[Mariam Naveed, MD @MN_GIMD]

Kicking off our virtual @AmerGastroAssn Regional Workshop with @barbarahjung discussing “Leading from Within”

Big takeaways:
✨ Lead yourself first
✨ Listen before you lead
✨ Influence > authority
✨ Find alignment, not control
✨ Shared goals > “us vs them”

Leadership starts with self-awareness and grows through connection.

@LorenRabinowitz