Meetings are always FREE for SGNA members and $10 for non-members (please see our Treasurer on your arrival for payment).
NNJSGNA Members: Remember, your 2026/2027 attendance to the business meetings will enter you in the raffle to attend the2026 SGNA National Conference at the end of the year.
PAST MEETINGS MINUTES:
NNJSGNA 2026
2nd meeting 4/22/2026: Chilton Medical Center-Board Room-Sponsored by Boston Scientific-topic presented: Current Treatment Modalities for GI Bleeding. Update to policies; Discussed Tri-regional Conference planning is ongoing with the committee; SGNA Annual Conference to take place next month (May) in Atlanta, GA, 7 members from our chapter will be in attendance; Need to get more GI nurses & techs involved in our chapter, on-going discussion on how to get more people on board; Next chapter meeting to take place in June at Valley Hospital. Winner of our door prize: Riz C. (gift card).
1st meeting: February 24, 2026: Hackensack University Medical Center - Hekemian Conference Room - Steris - Surveying the Colon & Advances in Polypectomy; Discussed Oct 3, 2026 Tri-regional conf. preparations necessary to attend most/if not all, planning committee mtgs; Winner of our raffle to this year's National Conf in Atlanta: Susan O.; 2nd runner-up: Jennifer M.
NNJSGNA 2025
1st February 12, 2025 Hackensack University Medical Center - Hekemian Conference Room - Endoscopic Cryotherapy - Sponsored by STERIS
2nd Meeting April 9, 2025, at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston)- GI It's Stuck- Sponsored by Olympus
3rd Meeting June 11, 2025 at Valley Hospital Ridgewood Campus- ERBE
4th Meeting Sept. 29, 2025 at Morristown Outpatient Endoscopy: Cook Medical GI Bleed Management
5th Meeting Dec 8, 2025 at St, Joseph's Medical Center; Olympus: Stenting in the GI Tract. At this meeting, ballots were tallied & congratulations to our newly elected board members: Treasurer (2026/2027), Debra Castro & President-Elect 2026/President 2027, Joan Meechee
NNJSGNA 2024:
5th December 4, 2024 - St Joseph University Hospital, Paterson, NJ - Updates in ERCP procedure - Olympus
4rd September 30, 2024 - Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ - "Endoscopy Submucossa Dissection (ESD) with Dr Matthew Grossman - Steris
3rd June 26, 2024 - The Valley Hospital, Ridgdale, NJ - "Use of Electrosurgery and APC: Therapeutic Tools in GI Endoscopy - ERBE
2nd April 9 2024 - Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ - "ERCP Procedure" - Olympus America Inc. -
1st February 15 2024 - Hackensack University Medical Center - "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Endoscopy Ultrasound" - Boston Scientific - The 2024 NNJ SGNA Officers and our scholarship winner for 2022 National scholarship winner to Kentucky announced - congratulations to Kimberly Venturella, winner of the 2023 attendance raffle
NNJSGNA 2023:
5th December 6th St Joseph University Hospital - Barrett's Esophagus and treatments -
4rd September 19th 2023 at Englewood Medical Center - Stenting - Olympus America Inc.
3rd June 27, 2023 Valley Hospital, RIdgewood, NJ - Update in Infection Prevetion - Boston Scientific
2nd April 27th, 2023 - Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ - Back to Basics in Infection Prevention in the GI Endoscipy Unit -
1st February 18th 2023 at Hackensack University Medical Center- Scope Reprocessing Review and updates - ConMed - Introduced the 2023 NNJ SGNA Officers and our scholarship winner for 2022 National scholarship winner to Arizona announced
NNJSGNA 2022:
5th November 15th 2022 - St. Joseph's University Medical Center, Auditorium 1, 703 Main St, Paterson, NJ 07503 - "POEM" / Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy by Dr. Matthew Grossman and Overview of "ENDOFLIP" by Medtronic
4rd June 22, 2022 - Hackensack University Medical Center, Outpatient Endoscopy's Colon Cancer Prevention Center - "Polyp Management" - ERBE USA.
3rd April 26, 2022, Englewood Hospital - Esophageal Manometry 101 will be presented by our own member Kimberly Venturella!
2nd February 15, 2022, at Morristown Medical Center Ambulatory Center; 111 Madison Ave., 4th floor, Morristown: Attention, due to the COVID restriction at Morristown,
1st virtual meeting - "Advances in the Management of Achalasia" - Boston Scientific. Introduced the 2022 NNJ SGNA Officers and our scholarship winner for 2022 National scholarship winner to Utah announced
Members are invited to participate in the business meeting immediately following the presentations.
*** For updates in our Northern N.J. In the region, we encourage you to please stay after each presentation for a brief business meeting. Attendance will increase your chance at door prizes and a scholarship to attend the National SGNA Conference!
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Restrictions could affect meeting in person, however, we will try our best to keep our commitment to provide educational opportunities and conduct business meetings for our regional members!