SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025
8:50 am – 9:10 am

Personalized Care for Achalasia in 2025

Learning Objectives:

• Select diagnostic tests for a patient with suspected achalasia.
• Understand the differences between various achalasia management options.
• Formulate a management plan for a patient with achalasia based on their subtype.

Speaker:

Adriana Lazarescu, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine
University of Alberta Hospital
Edmonton, Alberta

Dr. Adriana Lazarescu is a gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.  She received her MD degree at the University of Toronto, followed by internal medicine residency at the University of Western Ontario and gastroenterology subspecialty training at Queen’s University.  She then completed a CIHR-funded fellowship in esophageal motility at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium with Dr. Daniel Sifrim.  

Dr. Lazarescu is the director of the GI Motility Lab at the University of Alberta Hospital.  She is the founder and director of the Advanced Neurogastroenterology and Motility Fellowship program and a former director of the GI Residency Training Program at the University of Alberta.  Dr. Lazarescu is the former president of the Canadian Neurogastroenterology and Motility Network. Her clinical and research interests are in GI motility and medical education.