Berk/Fise Clinical Achievement Award

2021 Berk/Fise Clinical Achievement Award

 The Berk/Fise Clinical Achievement Award, formerly the ACG Clinical Achievement Award, is presented to not more than one Member/Fellow of the College in any year and is made in recognition of distinguished contributions to clinical gastroenterology over a significant period of time . Specific criteria include, in addition to a career of distinguished clinical practice of gastroenterology, contributions in patient care, clinical science, clinical education, technological innovation, and public and community service .

Nicholas J. Talley AC, MD, PhD, MACG

Distinguished Laureate Professor Nicholas J . Talley, AC, MD, PhD, MACG, is currently the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia . He is a clinician, educator and researcher, with extensive experience as a leader in the medical and University sectors . He holds current formal academic appointments at Mayo Clinic, University of North Carolina and the Karolinska Institute .

Dr . Talley is a neurogastroenterologist and highly successful original investigator funded in the past by NIH and currently by NHMRC . His focus has been on research translation, and in recent years the work has concentrated on subtle intestinal inflammation, the microbiome and unexplained gut symptoms . He has published over 1000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and is considered one of the world’s most influential clinicianresearchers . Dr . Talley’s work in eosinophilic gut diseases and their pathophysiological link to functional gut disorders has been ground-breaking . He is listed on Google Scholar as Australia’s most cited academic with more than 126,000 citations, and has been listed in the past among the top 400 most highly cited living biomedical researchers and is the most cited gastroenterology researcher . Dr . Talley is the Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia (since 2015) . He is also a leading medical educator and the author of the highly regarded textbooks Clinical Examination and Examination Medicine . In June 2014, Dr . Talley was inaugurated as one of the first 15 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) and was elected to the Executive of the Academy . Dr . Talley was Co-Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Gastroenterology from 2004-2009 and served on the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Board of Trustees from 2003-2009 .

Dr . Talley was on the consultant staff at Mayo Clinic for 12 years in Rochester, Minnesota, where he held the rank of Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and was Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, from 2007-2010 .

Dr . Talley previously held an appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Global Research from 2015-2019 and Pro Vice-Chancellor (and Dean) of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Newcastle from 2010-2015 and was seconded to be the Deputy Vice-Chancellor-Research (Acting) at the University of Newcastle from June 2013 to March 2014 .

Dr . Talley is a Senior Staff Specialist and gastroenterologist at John Hunter Hospital and attends clinic and endoscopy lists on a weekly basis . He is a Master of the ACG, and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (and Past President 2014-2016), the Royal College of Physicians (both London and Edinburgh), the American College of Physicians, and the American Gastroenterological Association . He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland . Dr . Talley was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for his contributions to medicine in 2018 .