91ÊÓƵ2023 Grant and Award Recipients


Research Awards

Daniel Hashimoto, MD
University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jennifer Kolb, MD
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California

Thomas J. Wang, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

ACG/91ÊÓƵEpidemiologic Research Award in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, FASGE
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York

91ÊÓƵDiversity and Inclusion Research Award

Neetika Srivastava, MD
Harbor University of California in Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California

Diversity Award-Gender

Saurabh Chandan, MD
Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
“Pregnancy and Risk of Post Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Complications - A United States Propensity Matched Cohort Analysis”

Diversity Award-Race/Ethnicity

Yukata Tomizawa, MD, FASGE
University of Washington, Seattle Washington
“Social and Environmental Factors Associated with Neoplastic Progression of Gastric Intestinal in a Large Multi-ethnic North American Cohort”

DDW Experience Travel Award

Zainab Aziz, MD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Alexander Conway, MD
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Endoscopic Training Awards

Evaristus Sunday Chukwudike, MD
The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Mohammad Naymul Hasan, MD
Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College & Hospital, Bogura, Bangladesh

GIE Outstanding Manuscript Award

Iris Levink, MD
“Protein biomarkers in pancreatic juice and serum for identification of pancreatic cancer”

VideoGIE Outstanding Manuscript Award

Tala Mahmoud, MD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
“A novel bedside swallowed optical sensor for detection of upper GI bleeding”

Advancing AI in GI Award

Yuichi Mori, MD, PhD, FASGE
University of Oslo, Yokohama, Japan

91ÊÓƵInnovation Award

Venkata S. Akshintala, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
“Sustained Release Epinephrine Hydrogels for Use in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy”

Jared A. Sninsky, MD, MSCR
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“A Blood-based Diagnostic Test to Differentiate Upper from Lower GI Bleeding”

Basil I. Hirschowitz, MD Endowed Lecture

Joseph J. Vicari, MD, MBA, FASGE
“Strategies for Success in the Changing Healthcare Landscape”

J. Edward Berk, MD, DSc, F91ÊÓƵEndowed Lecture

Heiko Pohl, MD, FASGE
VA Medical Center, GI Dept, White River Junction, Vermont
“GI Practices for Climate Sustainability in the 21st Century”

Jack A. Vennes, MD and Stephen E. Silvis, MD Endowed Lecture

Amrita Sethi, MD, MASGE
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York New York
“Acute Cholecystitis - When to Operate, When and How to Palliate”

Gene and Lyn Overholt Endowed Lecture

Rabia De Latour, MD
NYU Langone Health, New York, New York
“What Changes Are Afoot?”

Jerry Waye Endowed Lecture

Roy M. Soetikno, MD, MS, MASGE
San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California
“Maximizing efficiency and success at polypectomy”