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  1. Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Gretchen C. Edwards MD, MPH

  2. Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Sandra L. Wong MD, MS

  3. Department of Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Maria C. Russell MD & Virginia O. Shaffer MD

  4. Department of Surgery, Medstar Georgetown Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Emily R. Winslow MD

  5. Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, 395 W. 12th Ave., Suite 670, Columbus, OH, USA

    Timothy M. Pawlik MD, MPH, MTS, PhD

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Edwards, G.C., Wong, S.L., Russell, M.C. et al. Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Health Care Quality and Outcomes Committee Webinar: Addressing Disparities. J Gastrointest Surg 26, 997–1005 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-022-05300-5

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