ACG Scholars: Past Junior Faculty Awardees

Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology; Chief, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Robert F. and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

G. Richard Locke, III, MD, FACG In Memoriam (1961-2019) Former Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

1999

1999

Sapna Syngal, MD, MPH, FACG Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director, Gastroenterology, DFCI/ BWH Cancer Center; Director, GI Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program; Medical Oncology, DanaFarber Cancer Institute

Zobair M. Younossi, MD, MPH, FACG President, Inova Medical Services; Chairman, Clinical Research, Inova Health System; Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

2000

2000

Naga P. Chalasani, MD, FACG David W. Crabb Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Adjunct Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine Chinyu Su, MD Vice President, Global Product Development, Pfizer, Inc.

2000

Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, MACG Bozymski-Heizer Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

2002

Yvonne Romero, MD, FACG Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2002

John M. Inadomi, MD, FACG Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair; Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine

2003

Deborah A. Fisher, MD, MHS Medical Fellow, US Medical Affairs, Gastroenterology, Eli Lilly and Company

Kirti Shetty, MD Professor of Medicine; Director of Hepatology; Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center

Bo Shen, MD, FACG Director, IBD Center at Columbia University; Vice Chair for Innovation in Medicine and Surgery; Professor of Medicine and Surgical Sciences; The Edelman-Jarislowsky Professor of Surgical Sciences, Columbia University

Yuri A. Saito-Loftus, MD, MPH, FACG Member, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R.) Program; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2004

Yehuda Ringel, MD, FACG Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Meir Medical Center, Affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Sharon, Israel

2005

George N. Ioannou, MD, MS Professor of Gastroenterology, Director of Hepatology, University of Washington Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System

2006

Elena M. Stoffel, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Internal Medicine; Director, Cancer Genetics Clinic, Rogel Cancer Center University of Michigan

2007

Shahnaz Sultan, MD, MHSc, FACG Associate Professor in Medicine; GI Program Director; Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, VAHCS

2007

Albena D. Halpert, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

2008

Brian W. Behm, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Marcelo F. Vela, MD, MSCR, FACG Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale

Jasmohan S. Bajaj, MD, MSc, FACG Professor of Medicine, McGuire VA Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University

Thomas A. Ullman, MD, FACG Chief, Division of Gastroenterology; Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs; Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center

2006

Claudia O. Zein, MD, MSc Director, Clinical Development - Hepatology, R&D - Clinical Sciences, GI & Hepatology, GSK

2008

Alphonso Brown, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

ACG SCHOLARS

Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, FACG Professor of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology; Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing; Director, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Core, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Curtis K. Argo, MD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Virginia

2009

2010

Ajay Bansal, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Medical Director, University of Kansas Medical Center Gastrointestinal Cancers Prevention Clinic, University of Kansas Cancer Center

Prasad G. Iyer, MD, MS, FACG Professor of Medicine; Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Co-Director, Advanced Esophageal Fellowship; Director, PostDoctoral Programs, Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2010

2010

Bechien U. Wu, MD, MPH Professor of Clinical Sciences; Program Director, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellowship Training Program, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

Katherine S. Garman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

2010

2011

David G. Koch, MD, MSCR Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

2011

Alberto Rubio-Tapia, MD Director, Celiac Disease Program; Staff Gastroenterologist; Associate Professor of Medicine Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic Harminder Singh, MD, MPH, FACG Associate Professor; Co-Lead, Manitoba Hereditary GI Cancer Clinics, University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Eric I. Benchimol, MD, PhD Senior Scientist, SickKids Research Institute; Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto

Jason K. Hou, MD, MS, FACG Associate Professor of Medicine; Acting Section Chief, GI & Hepatology Fellowship Program; Director of IBD Research, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine

2011

Ponni V. Perumalswami, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan

Amit Singal, MD, MS Professor of Medicine; Chief of Hepatology; Medical Director of Liver Tumor Program, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2012

Tyler Stevens, MD, MS, FACG Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

2013 2014

2014

Linda C. Cummings, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University

Manish K. Gala, MD Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Ashwani K. Singal, MD, MS, FACG Professor of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD; Director, Hepatology Elective, Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD; Transplant Hepatologist, Avera McKennan University Hospital and Transplant Institute; Chief, Clinical Research Program, Avera Liver Disease and Transplant Institute

Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2013 2014

Tamas A. Gonda, MD Associate Professor of Medicine; Chief of Endoscopy, NYU - Tisch Hospital; Director, Pancreas Disease Program, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA Director of UCSF Hepatology Clinical Research; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

Naim Alkhouri, MD VP of Academic Affairs; Chief of Transplant Hepatology; Director of the Fatty Liver Program, Arizona Liver Health

Walter G. Park, MD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology; Medical Director, Benign Pancreas Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

N. Jewel Samadder, MD, MSc Senior Consultant; Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Clinical Genomics; Associate Medical Director, Department of Development Associate Program Director, GI and Hepatology Fellowship, Mayo Clinic Arizona

2013 2015

Christopher V. Almario, MD, MSHPM Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

ACG SCHOLARS

2015

Cynthia A. Moylan, MD, MHS Associate Professor, Duke University School of Medicine

2017

Alina M. Allen, MD Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2018

Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS, FACG Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Jennifer C. Price, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, UCSF Viral Hepatitis Center, University of California, San Francisco

2017

Renumathy Dhanasekaran, MD Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

2018

Girish Hiremath, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH, FACG Director of Clinical Research; Director, Fecal Microbiota Transplant Program; Associate Director, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2017

Reena Khanna, MD, MSHS Associate Professor of Medicine University of Western Ontario

2018

Rena Yadlapati, MD, MSHS Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, UCSD Center for Esophageal Diseases, University of California San Diego

Siddharth Singh, MD, MS Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego

2018

Megan A. Adams, MD, JD, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan; Investigator, VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research