One Meeting: Two Options
You choose how you want to be a part of DDW — in person in Washington, D.C. or online with access to a variety of content. Once registration is open in January 2024, you’ll be able to select whether you’ll be attending in person or online during the registration process.
The Breakdown
Here’s what you can expect with each registration type for DDW 2024. Registration rates are the same for in-person and online attendees.

In Person
Original Sessions
Credentials to attend 400+ original scientific sessions.
CME
Ability to claim CME for sessions attended.
Poster Hall
View 4,000 oral abstract and poster presentations.
Exhibit Hall
See the latest GI innovations and discuss your specific needs with trusted industry partners.
DDW Online Platform
Continued access to the DDW Online Platform through May 2025 (see right column).
Online
Original Sessions
Watch four channels with 64 key scientific sessions (livestreamed). All in-person sessions will also be available on demand after 24 hours after each session ends, with continued access for one year.
CME
Ability to claim CME for sessions attended.
ePosters
Access to all full-text abstracts and digital posters (if submitted). Interact with select authors in virtual meeting rooms to ask your questions in real-time.
Industry Supporter Directory
See the latest GI innovations and discuss your specific needs with trusted industry partners.
Explore the DDW Online Schedule
Four channels will livestream 64 key scientific sessions during the meeting.
Additional Resources
- May 6
- May 7
- May 8
- May 9
Saturday, May 6, 2023
8 a.m. | AGA The Public Health Crisis in Nutrition: Enteral and Parenteral |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
ASGE Staying Out of Trouble During Colonoscopy | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
DDW Multimodal GERD Management: Gastroenterologist and Surgeons Optimizing Treatment Together | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
9 a.m. | ASGE Presidential Plenary |
9 a.m.–Noon | |
10 a.m. | AGA Best Practices in Eosinophilic Esophagitis |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
ASGE Advanced Bariatric and Metabolic Endoscopy | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
DDW Women's Health and Liver Disease | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
2 p.m. | AASLD Deciphering the Alphabet Soup of Non-Invasive Tests for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
AGA A Busy Day of Liver Consults | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
ASGE ERCP 201 | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Practical Application of Recent ASGE Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Case-Based Approach (Video Session) | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
4 p.m. | AGA State-of-the-Art Management of Acute Pancreatitis and Its Complications |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Endoscopy 911: Managing Adverse Events During Endoscopy | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE EUS Approaches to the Biliary Tree | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Third Space for the Referring Endoscopist | |
4–5:30 p.m. |
Sunday, May 7, 2023
8 a.m. | AASLD Liver Plenary Session: Novel Insights and Advances in Liver Disease |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
AGA Challenging Cases: Managing Common Gastrointestinal Sensorimotor Disorders | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
DDW Does Endoscopy Have a Role in the Management of NAFLD? | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
SSAT Presidential Plenary I | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
10 a.m. | AASLD Noninvasive Approaches for Diagnosing Fibrosis/Cirrhosis |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
AGA Current Status of Artificial Intelligence in Gastroenterology | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
11 a.m. | SSAT Presidential Plenary II |
11–11:45 a.m. | |
2 p.m. | AGA Charles S. Lieber Lecture — New Frontiers: Alcohol Associated Liver Disease |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
AASLD Microbiome and Liver Disease: The Gut Actually Matters | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
DDW The Evolving Role of the Gastroenterologist for Detecting, Managing and Preventing IBD-Related Dysplasia and CRC | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
SSAT Legends of GI Surgery | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
4 p.m. | AGA Josephine and Michael Camilleri, MD, Lecture — Multidisciplinary Approaches for IBS: Miracle Therapy or Glorified Placebo? |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Esophageal Dilemmas: A Case-Based Session | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Pills, Scopes and Scalpels: Approaches to Managing Obesity | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
DDW Portal Hypertension: Shifting Paradigms | |
4–5:30 p.m. |
Monday, May 8, 2023
8 a.m. | AASLD Hepatology for Gastroenterologists Symposium |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
AGA Clinical Plenary | |
8–9:45 a.m. | |
AGA Debates in Colon Cancer Screening and Surveillance | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
DDW Pancreatic Cancer Screening in 2023 — A Multidisciplinary Approach | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
10 a.m. | AGA Presidential Plenary |
10 a.m.–noon | |
DDW Liver Disease in Underserved Populations | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
11 a.m. | SSAT Maja and Frank G. Moody State-of-the-Art Lecture |
11–11:45 a.m. | |
1:30 p.m. | SSAT Kelly and Carlos Pellegrini SSAT-SAGES Joint Symposium: How We Educate our Fellows in Robotic, Laparoscopy and Endoscopy, and the Intersection of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery |
1–3:30 p.m. | |
2 p.m. | AASLD Contemporary Hepatology for Gastroenterologists |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
AGA Morton I. Grossman Distinguished Lectureship — Brain-Gut Interactions in IBS: Novel Applications for Clinical Practice | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
DDW Saving the Planet: Reducing the Carbon Footprint in Gastroenterology and Hepatology | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
4 p.m. | AASLD Stump the Hepatologist |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
AGA Optimizing Outcomes in Patients with Refractory GERD | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Evolving ERCP Techniques | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
DDW Let's Debate! Conventional Therapy vs. Progressive Interventional Endoscopy | |
4–5:30 p.m. |
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
8 a.m. | AASLD Primary Prevention and Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Best Practices in 2023 |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
AGA Chronic Abdominal Pain: How to Differentiate the Look-Alikes | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
ASGE Video Plenary-Session I | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
DDW Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy with Postoperative Weight Loss Failure | |
8–9:30 a.m. | |
9 a.m. | ASGE Video Plenary-Session II |
9–10 a.m. | |
10 a.m. | AASLD Alcohol Associated Liver Disease: Controversies and Consensus |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
AGA Controversies in Therapeutic Endoscopy | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
ASGE Video Plenary-Session III | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
DDW Advances in the Endoscopic Diagnosis and Management of Gastric Neoplasia and Premalignancy | |
10–11:30 a.m. | |
11 a.m. | ASGE Video Plenary-Session IV |
11–Noon | |
1 p.m. | ASGE World Cup of Endoscopy |
1–3 p.m. | |
2 p.m. | AGA Emerging GI Cancer Screening Tests |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Debating Complex Colorectal Polyps: ASGE Choosing from EMR, ESD and Surgery | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
DDW Multidisciplinary Management of Cholecystitis — When Surgery is Not Straightforward | |
2–3:30 p.m. | |
4 p.m. | AGA Barry Marshall (Nobel Laureate 2005) and Adrienne Marshall Lecture: Helicobacter Pylori Management: The Ongoing Uncertainties |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
ASGE Non-Bleeding Upper GI Emergencies — Or Are They? (Video Session) | |
4–5:30 p.m. | |
Best of DDW | |
4–5:30 p.m. |
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