Xiang Yu \u201cVincent\u201d Gao, a third-year medical student at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, presented in Chicago at Digestive Disease Week 2026, the world\u2019s largest and most prestigious conference in gastroenterology and hepatology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He presented two research abstracts, including a highly competitive oral presentation reserved for top-ranked submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working with collaborators at Providence, the University of Washington, and Stanford University, Gao examined risk prediction for hepatocellular carcinoma following hepatitis C cure<\/a> and real-world outcomes in pancreatic cyst management<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These achievements highlight Gao\u2019s early impact in academic medicine and his commitment to advancing gastrointestinal cancer prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Xiang Yu \u201cVincent\u201d Gao, a third-year medical student at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, presented in Chicago at Digestive Disease Week 2026, the world\u2019s largest and most prestigious conference in gastroenterology and hepatology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25158,"featured_media":36524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[74],"tags":[32,73],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36525,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36523\/revisions\/36525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36523"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=36523"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=36523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}