Becker's ASC Review

38 GI & ENDOSCOPY SECTION: GI Leaders in the Spotlight • Jacques Van Dam, MD, USC Medical Center, Los Angeles • Karen L. Woods, MD, Methodist Hospital, Houston • David L. Jaffe, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia • Klaus Mergener, MD, Digestive Health Special- ists, Tacoma, Wash. • Michael L. Kochman, MD, University of Penn- sylvania Health System, Philadelphia • Christopher J. Gostout, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. • Hironori Yamamoto, MD, Jichi Medical Uni- versity, Tochigi, Japan • M. Brian Fennerty, MD, Oregon Health & Sci- ence University, Portland • Jonathan M. Buscaglia, MD, Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Medical Center Endoscopy Unit • Sachin B. Wani, MD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora • Robin Mendelsohn, MD, Memorial Kettering Cancer Center, New York • Aziz Aadam, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago • Vincent Dusabejambo, MD, Kigali University Teaching Hospital, Rwanda • Salvatore Francesco Vadala di Prampero, MD, University Hospital of Udine, Italy • Yuichi Mori, MD, Showa University Yokohama Northern Hospital, Japan • Salvatore Oliva, MD, Sapienza-Univesity of Rome, Italy • Nikhil Vergis, BMBCH, St. Mary's Hospital, Imperial College, London • Ananya Das, MD, Arizona Digestive Health PC, Gilbert. • Jennifer H. Lai, MD, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco • Wajeeh Salah, MD, Mayo Clinic, Eau Claire, Wis. • Shou-Jiang Tang, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson. • Vinay Dhir, MD, Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, India • Yamile Haito Chavez, MD, e Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore • Sarah Flores, MD, UC Irvine Medical Center • Sameer Siddique, MD, University of Missouri, Columbia e American Gastroenterological Association honored Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, with the 2015 Julius Friedenwald Medal. Richard Peek, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Di- gestive Disease Research Center in Nashville, was named editor-in-chief of the American Gastroen- terological Association's Gastroenterology journal. e American Society of Gastrointestinal Endos- copy honored two gastroenterologists with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia at its Crystal Award — David Jaffe, MD, and Michael Kochman, MD. e American Society for Gastrointestinal Endos- copy Consultant Expert Program selected nine gastroenterologists to lead programs at the ASGE Institute for Training and Technology in Downers Grove, Ill.: • Amitabh Chak, MD, MS, FASGE, University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland • Jose-Guillermo de la Mora-Levy, MD, MSc, FASGE, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología in Mexico City • Kulwinder S. Dua, MD, FASGE, FACP, FRCP, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee • Lauren B. Gerson, MD, MSc, FASGE, Califor- nia Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco • Christopher J. Gostout, MD, FASGE, Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minn.) • Linda S. Lee, MD, Brigham and Women's Hos- pital in Boston • Simon K. Lo, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles • James M. Scheiman, MD, FASGE, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor • Paul R. Tarnasky, MD, Methodist Dallas Medi- cal Center in Dallas Christopher Andrews, MD, MSc, FRCPC, a gas- troenterologist with the University of Calgary in Canada, joined the M Pharmaceutical board of directors. The American College of Gastroenterology announced the new co-editors-in-chief of The American Journal of Gastroenterology — Bri- an E. Lacy, MD, PhD, FACG, of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, FACG, of Cedars-Sinai Health System in West Holly- wood, Calif. David Bernstein, MD, chief of hepatology for North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., and Long Island Jewish Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., was named the medical advisor of pharmaceutical company PAION. Kerri Gosselin, MD, joined Worcester, Mass.- based UMass Memorial Medical Group. Afsar Waraich, MD, opened Palmetto Gastroen- terology & Hepatology in Aiken, S.C. Mouen Khashab, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of therapeutic endoscopy, performed the first Medigus Ultrasonic Surgical Endostapler procedure at Baltimore-based e Johns Hopkins Hospital. Douglas A. Corley, MD, PhD, MPH, and Detlef Schuppan, MD, PhD, served as guest editors for the special issue released by the American Gas- troenterological Association's official journal Gas- troenterology. April La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company named four physicians to its LJPC-401 advisory board, in- cluding gastroenterologist Paul Adams, MD. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Gastro- enterology in Bennington added gastroenter- ologist Alexandra Shustina, DO, to its medical team. Mutare Health named gastroenterologist Law- rence Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF, its chief med- ical officer. INTEGRIS Colon and Rectal Surgery in Okla- homa City added Steven Carter, MD. Global nutrition company Herbalife added Czech gastroenterologist Dr. Pavel Kohout to its nutri- tion advisory board. e CDPHP Physicians' Academy inducted four New York physicians, including William Notis, MD, the founder of Albany (N.Y.) Gastroenterol- ogy Consultants. Medical device company BioSig Technologies named Jerome Zeldis, MD, PhD, to its board of directors. e University of Minnesota in Minneapolis es- tablished a team that will lead the reform of its research program, and the team will be chaired by William Tremaine, MD. Christopher Meyer, DO, was named CEO and chairman of the board of Gallipolis, Ohio-based Holzer Health System, effective Jan. 1. Noufal Jajeh, MD, joined the practice Gastroen- terology of West Central Ohio in Lima. Peter Brennan, MD; Brent Lemberg, MD; Steve Rogers, MD; and Carl West, MD, of Gastroen- terology Associates of Ithaca (N.Y.) collaborated with Cayuga Medical Center in Cortland, N.Y., to open the Cayuga Endoscopy Center in Ithaca. March Charlevoix (Mich.) Area Hospital added gastroen- terologist omas Tietjen, MD, to its medical team. Alan Maltbie, MD, Kirk Mullins, MD, and Douglas Walsh, MD, of Baton Rouge, La.-based Gastroenterology Associates, will start seeing pa- tients at the new office location in the Lane Re- gional Medical Center campus in Zachary, La. Daniel Podolsky, MD, president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, will join the Agilent Technologies board of direc- tors, effective in July.

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