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ASGE Past President's Address
John J. Vargo, MD, MPH, MASGE (author photos 1-6), is an associate professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University. He is a member of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in the Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute at the Cleveland Clinic.Christopher B. Williams
Christopher Williams (Author photos 1-12; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ), of St Mark’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom, had a successful and fulfilling career in colonoscopy and its teaching from 1970 to 2011.Bennett Roth, MD
Dr Bennett Roth (Author photos 1-13; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is professor of clinical, emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Muhlenberg College and his medical degree from Hahnemann University. He completed his internship at Hahnemann Hospital and his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After serving 2 years in the United States Public Health Service hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, he went on to complete his gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA.Hironori Yamamoto
Dr Hironori Yamamoto (Author photos 1-9 and Video 1 available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) serves as the Chairman and Professor of the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, at Jichi Medical University in Tochigi, Japan. He also serves as the Vice President of Jichi Medical University Hospital and the Director of the Endoscopy Center.Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD
Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD, (Author photos 1-9; Videos 1-3, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, where he is a member of the Gastroenterology Division and its Abramson Cancer Center. Dr Ginsberg received his medical degree from the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at Georgetown University Medical Center. He completed his Gastroenterology Fellowship at the Georgetown University/Washington DC VAMC/NIH program and formal training in Advanced Endoscopy at Georgetown University Medical Center.Dennis Jensen, MD
Dr Jensen (Author photos 1-12; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) earned his medical degree at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. He completed a medical internship and first-year medical residency at University of Oregon and Affiliated Hospitals. He served as a Major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and was Director of a Preventive Medicine Department. Then he completed a second-year medical residency at Wadsworth Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in Los Angeles and a fellowship in gastroenterology through a joint program at UCLA and Wadsworth VA Hospitals.David Fleischer, MD
Dr Fleischer (Author photos 1-12; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is currently an emeritus physician at Mayo Clinic Arizona and a Professor of Medicine at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. He graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and did his residency at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital/Case Western Reserve University and at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand. He completed his GI Fellowship at Harbor General UCLA.Hiroshi Ichikawa
Hiroshi Ichikawa (Author photos 1-10; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) joined Olympus Optical Company in 1964 as a microscope-design engineer, after studying precision mechanical engineering at Chuo University in Tokyo.Lawrence J. Brandt, MD
Dr Lawrence J. Brandt (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from The College of the City of New York and his medical degree from The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He then did his postgraduate medical education, including a fellowship in Gastroenterology, at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, after which he served in the Army as a gastroenterologist stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. After his military discharge, Dr Brandt joined the staff of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, where he is currently the Emeritus Chief of Gastroenterology and Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Gregory B. Haber, MD
Gregory B. Haber, MD (Author photos 1-13; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ), is Professor of Medicine, Chief of Endoscopy, and Director of Advanced Therapeutics and Innovation in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, New York.Jang Dilawari, MD
Dr Jang Dilawari (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) has had a very illustrious career, professionally as well as socially. He started his medical education in Germany, where he was taught by famous scientists and clinicians, such as Nobel Laureate Professor Butenandt and Professor Wiskott (who gave his name to Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome).Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, FACS
Jeffrey L. Ponsky (Author photos 1-7; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) completed his surgical training at University Hospitals of Cleveland in 1976 and joined the faculty of University Hospitals of Cleveland, where he was the Director of Surgical Endoscopy. In 1979, he became the Director of the Department of Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, where he remained through 1997. During that time, Dr Ponsky was Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery at CWRU.George Triadafilopoulos, MD, DSc
George Triadafilopoulos (Author photos 1-11; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is a senior member of the faculty in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division at Stanford University and serves as the Fellowship Program Co-Director and Chair of the Clinical Competence Committee that evaluates the clinical performance of the Gastroenterology trainees. In addition, he is responsible for organization, content development, and execution of the weekly educational activities of the Division, which include board review sessions, journal club, research talks, and clinical case presentations in the context of the Digestive Diseases Clinical Conferences.Prof Dr med Nib Soehendra
Nib Soehendra (Author photos 1-7; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia. He relocated from Jakarta to Hamburg, Germany, in October 1961 for medical study. He graduated from the University of Hamburg in January 1968 and obtained his MD in the same year. He then did a 6-year residency in general surgery at the Catholic Marien-Hospital Hamburg and at the University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, under the guidance of Prof Dr Hans-Wilhelm Schreiber.Joseph E. Geenen, MD, FASGE
Dr Joseph Geenen (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) was born in Freedom, Wisconsin. He attended Marquette University for his undergraduate medical education and was accepted into the Marquette Medical School in 1956.Jerome D. Waye, MD
Dr Jerome D. Waye (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) was born in Shanghai, China, and came to live in Kankakee, Illinois, when he was 5 years old. He later moved to New Jersey until attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While at MIT he was the coxswain of the crew team, which won every race in his senior year and then won their event at the Henley Royal Regatta in England. After graduating from MIT, he attended Boston University Medical School, where he was on scholarship and worked 3 jobs, 1 of which was drawing blood on the Third Surgical Service at Boston City Hospital, where he arose at 4:30 each morning to draw blood from 60 surgical patients.Sidney J. Winawer, MD, Dr Sc (Hon), FASGE, MACG, AGAF
Dr Sidney J. Winawer (Author photos 1-18; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is internationally recognized for his contributions to the prevention and diagnosis of colorectal cancer, describing the developmental stages of colorectal cancer, defining familial high-risk groups, promoting screening, and demonstrating the reduction in incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer by the removal of adenomatous polyps through his leadership of the National Polyp Study. This led to the concept of screening colonoscopy, which was introduced by the 1997 U.S.David Carr-Locke, MA, MB BChir (Cantab), DRCOG, FRCP, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, NYSGEF
David Carr-Locke (Author photos 1-13; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) grew up in Wiltshire, England; was educated at Chippenham Grammar School; and received his medical degree in 1972 from Cambridge University and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London, United Kingdom. He completed his internship at Kettering General Hospital, UK; his residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Leicester, UK; and a research fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Walter Hogan, MD
Dr Walter Hogan (Author photos 1-6; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is Professor of Medicine and Radiology in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He is a cofounder of the Medical College of Wisconsin Dysphagia Institute, located at Froedtert Lutheran Hospital, and a charter member of the “Milwaukee Group,” which has pioneered research in GI motor function for over 3 decades. Dr Hogan has a special interest in the pathophysiology and management of biliary motor disorders, especially those involving the sphincter of Oddi.Paulo Sakai
Paulo Sakai, MD, PhD, FASGE, was born in the small city of Maringá in the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil, and graduated from the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Paraná in 1970 (Author photos 1 and 2; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ). He decided to specialize in general surgery, and in 1973 he also started a fellowship in GI endoscopy at the University of Sao Paulo Medical School, where the most important unit of endoscopy was being installed in Brazil under the direction of Dr Shinichi Ishioka.Charles J. Lightdale
Dr Charles J. Lightdale (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) developed an early interest in medicine that was unfortunately sparked by the unexpected death of his father at age 50. At the time, young Lightdale was 13 years old and intently observed the doctors trying to help. In high school, he pursued science and also developed a love for literature and writing, guided by memorable teachers in both English and physics. These 2 passions came together in 2 national writing contests that he entered and won (1 for a short story called “The Center of Gravity”).Jerome H. Siegel, MD
Jerry Siegel (Author photos 1-15; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ), a native of Atlanta, Georgia, graduated as a pharmacist and then received a degree in chemistry from the University of Georgia. Jerry graduated as Alpha Omega Alpha from the Medical College of Georgia in 1960. He completed his internship in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and followed that experience by serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. After completing his military service, Jerry began his residency in medicine and gastroenterology at the VA Hospital in the Bronx and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York.Glen A. Lehman, MD
Glen Lehman (Author photos 1-14; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) was born at home on a farm near Geneva, Indiana (named after the Swiss counterpart), to Swiss parents. Crop and dairy farming supported 6 children, who all graduated from college. Glen graduated in the top 1% of his class with his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1968. After completing an internship at Duke University, he returned to Indiana for a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the Indiana University Medical Center.Grace H. Elta, MD, 2018 Rudolf V. Schindler Award Winner
Grace H. Elta (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1951. She attended the University of Michigan for both her bachelor of science and medical degrees, where she was awarded Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies. Her internal medicine residency and GI fellowship were at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. In 1982, she returned to Ann Arbor for a faculty position and was promoted to Professor of Medicine in 1997. In 2015, she was named the H.Richard A. Kozarek
“I was raised Polish and Catholic in a small Wisconsin town and learned early on the meaning of sin and the utility of cow shit.” This was the entirety of the requested 2000-word essay that I submitted to the American Student Medical Association, but it was enough to secure a summer internship in a medically underserved area of Appalachia. A philosophy major at the University of Wisconsin (1969), I also received my MD there (1973). I knew I was from a medical family (my father and 2 younger brothers are also MDs), but it took me by surprise that it was also a sexist family (my mother, a medical technologist, and my 3 sisters, RNs) (Author photo 1).Don W. Powell, MD
Dr Don Powell (Author photos 1-12; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is currently Professor Emeritus, Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he previously served as Chair of Internal Medicine, Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship, and Director of the Institute for Translational Sciences Clinical Research Center.Michael V. Sivak, Jr, MD
Dr Michael V. Sivak, Jr, (Author photos 1-13; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Sivak served as Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Case School of Medicine from 1993 until the end of 2005. Before his appointment at Case, he was Chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1988-1993).David Y. Graham, MD
Excellence is a reflection of the quality of those you allow to surround you.–David Y. Graham, MDD. Nageshwar Reddy
D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, DM, DSc, FAMS, FRCP, FASGE, FACG, MWGO, is currently the chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (Hyderabad, India) and was the past president of the World Endoscopy Organization (Author photos 1-9; Video 1, available online at www.VideoGIE.org ).Bergein F. Overholt
Bergein F. Overholt, MD, (Author photos 1-9; Video 1 available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, at age 2. Lyn Overholt (née Shafer) was born in Knoxville and both were raised there. They grew up a few blocks from each other, and met for the first time at the tender age of 3. They became high school sweethearts and, 18 years after their first encounter, they married in 1958.Meet the Master: Joseph Barnett Kirsner (1909–2012)
Joseph B. Kirsner, MD, PhD, devoted his life to the art and science of medicine, establishing, and then leading, the section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine for over 80 years. That section has been credited as being the first academic GI unit in the world. He served as a mentor to generations of physicians and established a legacy of practical wisdom, personal integrity, rigorous scientific inquiry, and unequaled patient care (Author photos 1-11, Video 1 available online at www.VideoGIE.org ).Sydney Chung
Sydney Chung graduated at the top of his class at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1980. After surgical training in Hong Kong, he joined the then-nascent Department of Surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He learned endoscopy from the legendary Joseph Leung (Author photo 1), and together they established the world-renowned endoscopy unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, where numerous therapeutic techniques were pioneered.Grace H. Elta
Grace H. Elta was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1951. She attended the University of Michigan for both her bachelor of science and medical degrees, where she was awarded Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies. Her Internal Medicine residency and GI fellowship were at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. In 1982, she returned to Ann Arbor for a faculty position and was promoted to Professor of Medicine in 1997 (Author photos 1 and 2). In 2015, she was named the H. Marvin Pollard Collegiate Chair of Gastroenterology (Author photo 3).Robert A. Ganz
Dr Robert A. Ganz (Author photos 1-11, Video 1 available online at www.VideoGIE.org ) was born in Chicago, Illinois. He went to Niles West High School in Niles, Illinois, and then graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois with honors in biology. He attended the University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, where he became interested in GI physiology and acid-related disorders. He then completed his fellowship in gastroenterology at Northwestern University. Shortly thereafter, Dr Ganz moved to Minneapolis, where he went into private practice with Minnesota Gastroenterology, Minneapolis, Minn.Peter Cotton
Dr Peter Cotton is Professor of Medicine in the Digestive Disease Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston (Author photos 1-5, Video 1 available online at www.VideoGIE.org ).
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