ACG Edgar Achkar Visiting Professorship Program THE ACG INSTITUTE’S EDGAR ACHKAR VISITING PROFESSORSHIP PROGRAM represents the exemplary educational offerings of the ACG Institute and its ongoing mission to provide quality educational opportunities for members. As fewer resources are available for visiting speakers, the ACG Institute continues to create opportunities for speakers to serve as faculty for medical grand rounds presentations and to enhance the educational experience for GI fellows-in-training while providing objective, timely, and clinically relevant presentations to ACG member physicians in the community. The purpose of these visits is to reach a diverse number of programs while aiming to maximize the impact of each visit by targeting GI training programs, which could also leverage an additional community event with local ACG member physicians, sometimes in conjunction with a local gut club. The programs offer expertise for a specific area of need at each institution. This year marks the seventh year of the ACG Edgar Achkar Visiting Professorship Program’s offerings, featuring 16 visits with GI fellows-in-training and faculty. Due to COVID-19, the ACG Institute has now started facilitating virtual visits for institutions to help accommodate visiting professors.
THIS PROGRAM BEARS THE NAME OF EDGAR ACHKAR, MD, MACG, ACG Institute Director Emeritus, honoring him for his dedication to the ACG Institute and its aim to provide high quality educational programs to the members of the College.
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