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2025-26 CAG Visiting Clinical Professor

Adriana Lazarescu, MD, FRCPC

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Director, Neurogastroenterology and Motility Fellowship Program
Director, GI Motility Lab

 

Dr. Adriana Lazarescu is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. She received her medical degree from the University of Toronto. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Western Ontario and her Gastroenterology residency at Queen’s University. She went on to complete a CIHR-funded clinical research fellowship in Esophageal Motility at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Dr. Lazarescu is the director of the GI Motility Lab at the University of Alberta Hospital and the director of the Advanced Neurogastroenterology and Motility fellowship program at the University of Alberta. She is the founder of the Achalasia Clinic which focuses on evidence-based multidisciplinary care for patients with achalasia. She is a former president of the Canadian Neurogastroenterology and Motility Network and a co-founder and co-director of the Annual National Motility Course of GI Residents. Dr. Lazarescu is a former director of the GI Residency Training Program, current competence committee chair and former clerkship coordinator at the University of Alberta. She is a member of the Royal College GI Examination Committee.

Her main clinical and research interests are in GI motility and medical education.

Potential Topics of Presentation:

  • Evidence-based management of achalasia
  • The Chicago 4.0 framework for esophageal motility disorders
  • Approach to GERD refractory to PPI
  • Esophageal spasm and non-cardiac chest pain
  • New advances in the diagnosis and management of eosinophilic esophagitis
  • Challenges and opportunities in GI education in the era of competency based medical education

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Selected Publications (trainees underlined):

Management of Patients With Refractory Reflux-Like Symptoms Despite Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy: Evidence-Based Consensus Statements.
Armstrong D, Hungin AP, Kahrilas PJ, Sifrim D, Moayyedi P, Vaezi MF, Al-Awadhi S, Anvari S, Bell R, Delaney B, Emura F, Gyawali CP, Katelaris P, Lazarescu A, Lee YY, Repici A, Roman S, Rooker CT, Savarino EV, Sinclair P, Sugano K, Yadlapati R, Yuan Y, Zerbib F, Sharma P, the International Working Group for the Classification of Oesophagitis (IWGCO)
Aliment Pharmacol Ther (2024) 0:1-15. doi.org/10.1111/apt.18420

Esophageal motility disorders on high-resolution manometry: Chicago classification version 4.0
Yadlapati R, Kahrilas PJ, Fox MR, Bredenoord AJ, Gyawali CP, Roman S, Babaei A, Mittal RK, Rommel N, Savarino E, Sifrim D, Smout A, Vaezi MF, Zerbib F, Akiyama J, Bhatia S, Bor S, Carlson DA, Chen JW, Cisternas D, Cock C, Coss-Adame E, de Bortoli N, Defilippi C, Fass R, Ghoshal UC, Gonlachanvit S, Hani A, Hebbard GS, Jung KW, Katz P, Katzka DA, Khan A, Kohn GP, Lazarescu A, Lengliner J, Mittal SK, Omari T, Park MI, Penagini R, Pohl D, Richter JE, Serra J, Sweis R, Tack J, Tatum RP, Tutuian R, Vela MF, Wong RK, Wu JC, Xiao Y, Pandolfino JE
Neurogastroenterol Motil (2020) 33:e14058 doi.org/10.1111/nmo.14058

Chicago classification update (V4.0): Technical review on diagnostic criteria for ineffective esophageal contractility and absent contractility

Gyawali CP, Zerbib F, Bhatia S, Cisternas D, Coss-Adame E, Lazarescu A, Pohl D, Yadlapati R, Penagini R, Pandolfino J.
Neurogastroenterol Motil (2021) 33:e14134. doi.org/10.1111/nmo.14134

Meeting the motility educational requirements of the gastroenterology trainee in the 21st century
Lazarescu A, Andrews, CA, Liu LWC, Reed D, Paterson WG, Vanner SJ, Sadowski DC.
J Can Assoc Gastroenterol (2020) 3(6):e28-e31 doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwz015

Updates on diagnostic modalities for esophageal dysphagia
Lazarescu A, Chan WW, Gyawali CP, Lee YY, Xiao Y, Wu P.
Ann NY Acad Sci (2020) 1481:108-16

Curriculum for neurogastroenterology and motility training: A report from the joint ANMS-ESNM task force
Gyawali CP, Savarino E, Lazarescu A, Bor S, Patel A, Dickman R, Pressman A, Drewes AM, Rosen J, Drug V, Saps M, Novais L, Vazquez-Roque M, Pohl D, van Tilburg MAL, Smout A, Yoon S, Pandolfino J, Farrugia G, Barbara G, Roman S.
Neurogastroenterol Motil (2018) doi.org/10.1111/nmo.13341

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology clinical practice guideline for the management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Moayyedi P, Andrews CN, MacQueen G, Korownyk C, Marsiglio M, Graff L, Kvern B, Lazarescu A, Liu L, Paterson WG, Sidani S, Vanner S.
J Can Assoc of Gastroenterol (2019) doi.10.1093/jcag/gwy071