Honor Your Mentor

David L. Jaffe, MD, FASGE
“I am thankful to have so many teachers, mentors, colleagues and friends within the ASGE who have nurtured and encouraged me over the years, with special thanks to Greg Ginsberg for his unstinting support.”

Brian C. Jacobson, MD, MPH, FASGE
“Dr. Colleen Schmitt is an exemplary mentor, colleague and friend. I can think of no one more deserving of recognition through a donation to support the ASGE, an organization so close to her heart. Thank you, Colleen, for personifying strength, wit, grace, humility and compassion.”

Michael B. Wallace, MD, MPH, FASGE
"Mentoring is not only important to the growth of our field, it is essential. I have been the recipient of great mentoring by many leaders in the field of endoscopy including Jacques  Van Dam, David Carr-Locke, Robert Hawes, and Peter Cotton, and countless others. Ultimately it is really our mentees and students that are our teachers as they challenge us   to think critically about what we know and what we do. I thank the ASGE for recognizing the importance of mentoring and thank all of those, mentors and mentees for being part of the great advancement of endoscopy.”

Richard C.K. Wong, MD, FASGE
“I want to thank my outstanding mentors, exceptional teachers, and great leaders in the ASGE and in the field of GI endoscopy, David L. Carr-Locke, Jacques Van Dam and Michael V. Sivak, Jr. I would also like to thank the many mentees who have allowed me to mentor them – mentoring is an important and distinct privilege that has to be earned – I am proud of what they have accomplished and I wish them the very best in their future careers.”