ACG Scholars: Meet in San Antonio

ACG 2019 Scholars Event in San Antonio (front row L to R: Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, FACG, Millie D. Long, MD, MPH, FACG, Chair, ACG Research Committee, Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, FACG, Director, ACG Institute, second row L to R: Amit Singal, MD, MS, Walter G. Park, MD, MS, Elena M. Stoffel, MD, MPH, Christopher V. Almario, MD, MSHPM, Rena Yadlapati, MD, MSHS, Naim Alkhouri, MD, Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH, Megan Adams, MD, JD, MSc, Yuri A. Saito-Loftus, MD, MPH, FACG, Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS, Girish Hiremath, MD, MPH)

SUPPORTING INVESTIGATIVE SCIENCE: ACG Scholars Meeting in San Antonio, TX

THE ACG SCHOLARS ARE A COHORT OF 64 CURRENT AND FORMER RECIPIENTS OF THE ACG JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AWARD.

As recipients of this prestigious award, they represent the highest level of achievement and further new research to benefit the delivery of care.

Established in 1997, the ACG Scholars Cohort meets each year at the ACG Annual Meeting to network and attend a presentation on the research progress of the previous year’s Junior Development Award recipients.

ACG 2019 SCHOLARS EVENT IN SAN ANTONIO

On October 28, 2019, at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, TX, the ACG Scholars met for the annual luncheon and networking event. This gathering has become an annual tradition, bringing together past Junior Faculty Development Award recipients with the previous year’s awardees.

ACG Institute Director, Dr. Nicholas Shaheen, welcomed everyone, including current and former members of the ACG Institute Board of Directors to the luncheon. Dr. Shaheen encouraged everyone to remain engaged in the work of the Institute and provided a summary of the Institute’s current projects.

The Junior Faculty Award recipients from 2018 made impressive presentations on the progress of their research. Megan Adams, MD, JD, MsC of the Univeristy of Michigan provided an update on her project Promoting High-Value Use of Endoscopic Sedation, Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine presented on Triangular Phenotyping and Response Assessment in Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease Using MRe and Novel Proteomic Biomarkers, Girish Hiremath, MD, MPH of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt offered an update on his project Label Free Determination of Biomolecular and Biochemical Signatures in Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Bench to Bedside Application of Raman Spectroscopy, and Rena Yadlapati, MD, MSHS of the University of California San Diego presented on Determining Best Practices for Reflux Associated Laryngeal Symptoms.