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INTRODUCING
NEW LEADERS ACG’S BOARD OF GOVERNORS ELECTED NEIL H. STOLLMAN, MD, FACG, AS CHAIR AND PATRICK E. YOUNG, MD, FACG, AS VICE CHAIR. The pair took the reins from
Costas H. Kefalas, MD, MMM, FACG, Chair, and Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, Vice Chair. The ACG Governors are state and regional elected representatives whose role in the College is in part to serve as a conduit at a grassroots level for ACG members to share their needs and insights for clinical matters and other issues affecting the practice of medicine. ACG MAGAZINE invited Dr. Stollman and Dr. Young to introduce themselves and to share their vision for the work of the Governors going forward.
DR. NEIL H. STOLLMAN, CHAIR, ACG BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Tell us about your practice and clinical interests. My GI career has been a bit, well, non-linear! After my GI Fellowship, my first job was at the Miami VA Medical Center. I loved working at the VA and still miss those Vets. I then came out to California to join the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and to run the GI Division at San Francisco General, our county/teaching hospital. I’ve subsequently joined a single-specialty GI practice in Oakland where I now have a fulltime private practice. In addition, however, I still teach at UCSF and elsewhere, still take shifts and night call at our county facility, and have also maintained my academic interests and continue to do clinical research and
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