ASGE Honorary Award Recipients

Our honorary awards recognize the highest levels of achievement in gastroenterology and endoscopy. Honorees advance the field through groundbreaking research, compassionate patient care and innovative education that inspires the next generation. These awards celebrate the trailblazers whose dedication and leadership continue to shape the future of our profession.

Rudolf Schindler Award

Rudolf Schindler Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	Gregory B. Haber, MD, MASGE	NYU Grossman
2024	Martin L. Freeman, MD, MASGE	University of Minnesota
2023	Todd H. Baron, MD, MASGE	University of North Carolina
2023	Stuart Sherman, MD, MASGE	Indiana University Health Physicians
2022	John L. Petrini, MD, MASGE	Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
2021	D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, MASGE	Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
2020	Kenneth K. Wang, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2019	Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD, MASGE	University of Pennsylvania
2018	Grace H. Elta, MD, MASGE	University of Michigan
2017	Robert A. Ganz, MD, MASGE	Minnesota Gastroenterology
2016	M. Brian Fennerty, MD, MASGE	Oregon Health & Science University
2015	Robert H. Hawes, MD, MASGE	Florida Hospital Orlando
2014	Jerome H. Siegel, MD, MASGE	Beth Israel Medical Center
2013	Douglas K. Rex, MD, MASGE	Indiana University Medical Center
2012	Dennis M. Jensen, MD, MASGE	UCLA & West Los Angeles VA
2011	David J. Bjorkman, MD, MASGE	University of Utah School of Medicine
2010	C. Paul Swain, MD, MASGE	Royal London Hospital
2009	Christopher J. Gostout, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2008	David A. Lieberman, MD, MASGE	Oregon Health & Science University
2007	David L. Carr-Locke, MD, MASGE, FRCP	Weill Cornell Medicine
2006	Michael B. Kimmey, MD, MASGE	Franciscan Digestive Care Associates
2005	Richard A. Kozarek, MD, MASGE	Virginia Mason Clinic
2004	Peter B. Cotton, MD, MASGE	MUSC, Digestive Disease Center
2003	Wilfred M. Weinstein, MD	UCLA Medical Center
2002	Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, MASGE	Cleveland Clinic
2001	Robert A. Sanowski, MD	University of Arizona College of Medicine
2000	David E. Fleischer, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale
1999	Charles J. Lightdale, MD, MASGE	Columbia University Medical Center
1998	John H. Bond, MD, FASGE	VA Medical Center, Minneapolis
1997	Michael V. Sivak Jr., MD, MASGE	University Hospitals of Cleveland
1996	Glen A. Lehman, MD, MASGE	Indiana University Medical Center
1995	Walter J. Hogan, MD, MASGE	Medical College of Wisconsin
1994	Sidney F. Winawer, MD, MASGE	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
1993	Francis J. Tedesco, MD, MASGE	Medical College of Georgia
1992	J. Loren Pitcher, MD	University of New Mexico School of Medicine
1991	Joel F. Panish, MD, MASGE	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
1990	Melvin Schapiro, MD, MASGE	UCLA Medical Center
1989	Joseph E. Geenen, MD, MASGE	GI Associates
1988	Bernard M. Schuman, MD, MASGE	Medical College of Georgia
1987	Stephen E. Silvis, MD	VA Medical Center, Minneapolis
1986	Jerome D. Waye, MD, MASGE	Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
1985	William S. Haubrich, MD	Scripps Clinical Research Foundation
1984	Joseph B. Kirsner, MD, PhD, FASGE	University of Chicago Hospital
1983	John F. Morrissey, MD, FASGE	University of Wisconsin Medical School
1982	H. Worth Boyce, MD, FASGE	University of Southern Florida College of Medicine
1981	Angel E. Dagradi, MD	Torrance, CA
1980	Cyrus E. Rubin, MD	University of Washington Medical Center
1979	Charles A. Flood, MD	Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital
1978	Jack A. Vennes, MD	University of Minnesota Medical School
1977	Leonidas H. Berry, MD	Cook County Hospital
1976	Marvin Pollard, MD	Univeristy of Michigan Medical School
1975	Bergein F. Overholt, MD, MASGE	Gastrointestinal Associates, PC
1974	Benjamin H. Sullivan, MD, FASGE	Naples, FL
1973	Basil I. Hirschowitz, MD	University of Alabama at Birmingham
1972	Joseph P. Belber, MD	UC Davis School of Medicine
1971	Frank E. McGlone, MD	Medical Care and Research Foundation
1970	G. Gordon McHardy, MD
1969	Horace P. Marvin, MD	Newport, AR
1968	Paul H. Hollinger, MD	Children's Memorial Hospital
1967	Clifford Barborka, MD
1966	J. Edward Berk, MD, FASGE	University of California Irvine Medical Center
1965	John Howard, MD	Johns Hopkins
1964	Donovan C. Browne, MD
1963	Henry Colcher, MD	Columbia University Division, Goldwater Memorial Hospital
1962	Rudolf Schindler, MD	VA Hospital, Long Beach
1961	Charles Debray, MD	Chevigny Saint-Sauveur, France
1961	Pierre Houssett, MD	University Hospitals of Paris
1960	Harry Segal, MD	University of Rochester
1960	Robert S. Nelson, MD	Houston, TX
1959	Herman J. Moersch, MD	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
1958	Norbert Henning, MD
1957	Herman Taylor, MD
1956	Marie Ortmayer, MD
1955	Eddy D. Palmer, MD
1954	Edward B. Benedict, MD

Distinguished Educator Award

Distinguished Educator Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	Gerard A. Isenberg, MD, MBA, FASGE	University Hospitals Cleveland
2025	James H. Tabibian, MD, PhD, FASGE	Adventist Health Glendale
2024	Thomas E. Kowalski, MD	Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
2024	Catharine Walsh, MD, MEd, PhD, FRCPC	Hospital for Sick Children
2023	Victor Fox, MD, FASGE	Children's Hospital Boston
2023	Vanessa M. Shami, MD, FASGE	University of Virginia Health System
2022	William M. Tierney, MD, FASGE	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
2022	Simon K. Lo, MD, FASGE	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2021	Nalini Guda, MD, FASGE	Medical Consultants
2021	Shelby A. Sullivan, MD, FASGE	University of Colorado Denver
2020	Brenna W. Casey, MD, FASGE	Massachusetts General Hospital
2019	Amitabh Chak, MD, FASGE	University Hospitals Medical Group INC
2018	Frank G. Gress, MD, FASGE	Columbia University Medical Center
2017	Brenda J. Hoffman, MD, FASGE	Medical University of South Carolina
2016	Robert E. Sedlack, MD, MHPE, FASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2015	David L. Jaffe, MD, FASGE	University of Pennsylvania
2015	Klaus Mergener, MD, PhD, MBA, FASGE	Digestive Health Specialists
2014	Ashley L. Faulx, MD, FASGE	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
2014	Tonya R. Kaltenbach, MD, FASGE	VA Palo Alto
2013	Grace Elta, MD, MASGE	University of Michigan
2012	Douglas A. Howell, MD, FASGE	Portland Gastroenterology Center

Distinguished Service Award

Distinguished Service Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	David A. Greenwald, MD, MASGE	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2025	Steven A. Edmundowicz, MD, MASGE	UCHealth Digestive Health Center Anschutz
2024	Jason A. Dominitz, MD, MHS, MASGE	University of Washington
2023	John J. Bosco, MD, FASGE	Aurora Gastroenterology
2023	Barbara Tauscher, MHA, FACMPE	Oregon Clinic PC
2022	Lukejohn Day, MD, FASGE	University of California
2021	Douglas G. Adler, MD, FASGE	University of Utah School of Medicine
2020	Michelle A. Anderson, MD, MSc, FASGE	University of Michigan
2020	Jerome D. Waye, MD, MASGE	Greenwich, Connecticut
2019	Colleen M. Schmitt, MD, MHS, MASGE	Galen Medical Group
2018	Frank J. Chapman, MBA	Ohio Gastroenterology Group, Columbus
2017	Irving M. Pike, MD, FASGE	John Muir Health
2016	Jonathan Cohen, MD, FASGE	New York University School of Medicine
2015	Robert A. Ganz, MD, MASGE	Minnesota Gastroenterology
2015	Karen L. Woods, MD, MASGE	Houston Methodist Gastroenterology
2015	Jacques Van Dam, MD, PhD, FASGE	USC Medical Center
2014	Gottumukkala S. Raju, MD, FASGE	MD Anderson Cancer Center
2013	John J. Vargo II, MD, MPH, MASGE	Cleveland Clinic
2012	Glenn D. Littenberg, MD	Pasadena, CA
2011	John Martin, MD, FASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2010	Bret T. Petersen, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2009	George Triadafilopoulos, MD, DSc, FASGE	Stanford University
2007	James T. Frakes, MD, FASGE	Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd.
2006	Maurits J. Wiersema, MD	Indiana Medical Associates
2005	Douglas B. Nelson, MD, FASGE	VA Medical Center, Minneapolis
2004	Maurice A. Cerulli, MD, FASGE	Long Island Jewish Medical Center
2003	Thomas H. Browning, MD, FASGE	University of Wisconsin
2001	Lawrence S. Friedman, MD, FASGE	Newton Wellesley Hospital
1999	Bennett E. Roth, MD, MASGE	UCLA
1998	Michael S. Obstfeld	American Municipal Securities
1998	Mark K. Donohue	American Municipal Securities
1997	Donald A. O'Kieffe, MD, FASGE	Metropolitan Gastroenterology Group, PC
1996	James L. Borland, Jr., MD, FASGE	Jacksonville, FL
1995	Charles J. Lightdale, MD, MASGE	Columbia University Medical Center
1993	William F. Allyn, MD	SUNY Upstate Medical University
1992	Paul A. Kantrowitz, MD, FASGE	Mount Auburn Hospital
1991	Bernard M. Schuman, MD, FASGE	Medical College of Georgia
1990	William T. Maloney	Manchester, MA
1989	H. Worth Boyce, Jr., MD, FASGE	University of Southern Florida
1987	John F. Morrissey, MD, FASGE	Bend, OR
1984	Reinhold Wappler, MD	Quinnipiac University

Master Endoscopist Award

Master Endoscopist Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	Prabhleen Chahal, MD, FASGE	University of Texas Health San Antonio
2025	David L. Diehl, MD, FASGE	Geisinger Medical Center
2025	Stuart R. Gordon, MD, FASGE	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
2025	Neil Gupta, MD, FASGE	Midwest Digestive Health and Nutrition
2025	Amit P. Maydeo, MD, FASGE	Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital
2024	M. Stanley Branch, MD, FASGE	Duke University Medical Center
2024	Peter V. Draganov, MD, FASGE	University of Florida Health
2024	Frank G. Gress, MD, FASGE	Mount Sinai Doctors
2024	Priya A. Jamidar, MD, FASGE	Yale University
2024	Reem Z. Sharaiha, MD, MSc	Weill Cornell Medicine
2023	Nalini Guda, MD, FASGE	Medical Consultants
2023	Ibrahim Mostafa, MD	Theodor Bilharz Research Institute
2023	Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, FASGE	University of North Carolina
2023	Uzma D. Siddiqui, MD, FASGE	The University of Chicago
2022	Marcia Irene Canto, MD, MHS, FASGE	Johns Hopkins Hospital
2022	Kenneth J. Chang, MD, FASGE	University of California Irvine Medical Center
2022	Tonya R. Kaltenbach, MD, MS, FASGE	San Francisco VA Health System
2021	Mouen A. Khashab, MD, FASGE	Johns Hopkins University
2021	Carol E. Semrad, MD	The University of Chicago
2021	Raj J. Shah, MD, FASGE	University of Colorado Anschultz Medical Center
2021	Adam Slivka, MD, PhD, FASGE	University of Pittsburgh Physicians
2020	Amrita Sethi, MD, MASGE	Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
2020	Stuart Sherman, MD, MASGE	Indiana University Health Physicians
2019	Thomas J. Savides, MD, MASGE	University of California, San Diego, Div of Gastro
2018	Norio Fukami, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale
2017	Louis M. Wong Kee Song, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2016	Bret T. Petersen, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2015	Michael L. Kochman, MD, MASGE	University of Pennsylvania
2014	Roy M. Soetikno, MD, MASGE	Duke-National University of Singapore
2013	Kenneth F. Binmoeller, MD, MASGE	California Pacific Medical Center
2013	Robert H. Hawes, MD, MASGE	Florida Hospital Orlando
2012	Martin L. Freeman, MD, MASGE	University of Minnesota
2011	Richard E. Sampliner, MD, MASGE	Adobe Gastroenterology
2010	Todd H. Baron, MD, MASGE	University of North Carolina
2009	D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, MASGE	Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
2008	Gregory B. Haber, MD, MASGE	New York University Medical Center
2007	Peter H. R. Green, MD, MASGE	New York Presbyterian Hospital
2006	Firas H. Al-Kawas, MD, MASGE	Sibley Hospital
2006	David A. Greenwald, MD, MASGE	Mount Sinai Hospital
2006	Norman E. Marcon, MD, MASGE	St. Michael's Hospital
2005	Joseph W. Leung, MD, FRCP, MASGE	University of California Davis Medical Center
2005	William B. Long, MD	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2005	Stanley P. Reipe, MD, JD	Emory University School of Medicine
2004	Kulwinder S. Dua, MD, MASGE	Medical College of Wisconsin
2004	Michael W. L. Gauderer, MD	Greenville Hospital system, Children's Hospital
2004	Gustavo A. Machicado, MD, MASGE	Northridge, CA
2003	W. Scott Brooks, MD	Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates
2003	Douglas K. Rex, MD, MASGE	Indiana University Medical Center
2003	Douglas C. Walta, MD, MASGE	The Oregon Clinic
2001	John Baillie, MD, FASGE	Wake Forest University Health Sciences
2001	Eugene M. Bozymski, MD, MASGE	University of North Caroline Medical Center
2001	Jerome H. Siegel, MD, MASGE	Beth Israel Medical Center

Distinguished Endoscopic Research Mentoring Award

Distinguished Endoscopic Research Mentoring Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, FASGE	NYU Langone
2024	Gary W. Falk, MD, MS, MASGE	Univ. of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
2024	Prasad G. Iyer, MD, MS, FASGE	Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
2023	Dayna S. Early, MD, FASGE	Washington University, School of Medicine
2023	Steven A. Edmundowicz, MD, MASGE	University of Colorado School of Medicine
2023	Gerard A. Isenberg, MD, MBA, FASGE	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
2022	Sachin B. Wani, MD, FASGE	University Of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus
2021	David L. Diehl, MD, FASGE	Geisinger Medical Center
2020	Marcia Irene Canto, MD, MHS, FASGE	Johns Hopkins Hospital
2019	Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MHES, MSc	Brigham and Women's Hospital
2018	Peter B. Kelsey, MD, FASGE	Massachusetts General Hospital
2017	Douglas A. Howell, MD, FASGE	Portland Gastroenterology Center
2016	Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD, MASGE	Perelman School of Medicine
2015	Christopher J. Gostout, MD, MASGE	Mayo Clinic, Rochester
2014	Prateek Sharma, MD	University of Kansas Medical Center
2013	Richard C. K. Wong, MD, FASGE	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
2012	Michael B. Wallace, MD, MPH, FASGE	Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
2011	Yang K. Chen, MD, FASGE (posthumously)	University of Colorado, Denver
2010	Amitabh Chak, MD, FASGE	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
2009	Stuart Sherman, MD, MASGE	Indiana University Medical Center
2008	Dennis M. Jensen, MD, MASGE	UCLA & West Los Angeles VA Healthcare Center

International Service Award

International Service Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	Randhir Sud, MD, FASGE	Medanta the Medicity
2024	Sundeep Lakhtakia, MD, FASGE	Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
2023	Jacques Bergman, MD, PhD	Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023	Mahesh Goenka, MD, FASGE	Apollo Multispecialty Hospitals, India
2021	Horst Neuhaus, MD	Evangelisches Krankenhaus Duesseldorf
2021	Manu Tandan, MD	Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
2020	Fabian A. Emura, MD, PhD, FASGE	Emura Center, Latino America
2019	Robert A. Enns, MD	Canada
2018	Ajay Kumar, MD	Delhi, India
2017	Hisao Tajiri, MD	Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan
2016	Juergen H. Hochberger, MD, PhD, FASGE	Friedrichshain Hospital, Germany
2016	Zeyad K. Sharaiha, MD	Amman Surgical Hospital, Jordan
2015	Hironori Yamamoto, MD, FASGE	Jichi Medical University, Japan
2014	Khean-Lee (KL) Goh, MD, FASGE	University of Malaya, Malaysia
2013	Haruhiro Inoue, MD, FASGE	Showa University, Japan
2012	Ibrahim Mostafa, MD	Cairo, Egypt
2011	D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, MASGE	Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, India
2008	Joseph R. Armengol-Miro, MD	Vall D'Hebron University Hospital Barcelona, Spain

Industry Service Award

Industry Service Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	John Day	ERBE USA, Inc.
2024	Thomas McCourt	Ironwood
2023	Greg T. Prevatt	Apollo Endosurgery
2021	John E. Abele	Boston Scientific
2020	Giovanni Di Napoli	Medtronic
2020	Patrice Pickering	Braintree Laboratories Inc.
2019	Hiroshi Ichikawa	Olympus (retired)

President's Award

President's Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2023	Joyce A. Peetermans, PhD	Boston Scientific

Honorary Member Award

Honorary Member Award recipients by year, name, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2012	Hirohumi Niwa, MD	Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
2009	Thomas Roesch, MD	Hamburg, Germany
2009	Paulo Sakai, MD	Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009	Joseph J. Y. Sung, MD, PhD	Shatin, Hong Kong
2008	Miquel Munoz-Navas, MD	Pamplona, Spain
2008	Kenjiro Yasuda, MD	Kyoto, Japan
2008	Guido E. Villa-Gomez Roig, MD	La Paz, Bolivia
2008	Takao Sakita, MD	Tokyo, Japan
2008	Guido N. J. Tytgat, MD, PhD	Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007	Carlos F. Gonzalez del Solar, MD	Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007	Friedrich Hagenmuller, MD	Hamburg, Germany
2007	Hisao Tajiri, MD	Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan
2007	Joseph R. Armengol-Miro, MD	Vall D'Hebron University Hospital Barcelona, Spain
2006	Anthony Axon, MD	Leeds, United Kingdom
2006	Ricardo A. Barinaga, MD	Mexico City, Mexico
2006	Gran-Hum Chen, MD	Taichung, Taiwan
2006	Meinhard Classen, MD	Munich, Germany
2006	Henry Cohen, MD	Montevideo, Uruguay
2006	Guido Costamagna, MD	Rome, Italy
2006	Michel Cremer, MD	Brussels, Belgium
2006	Massimo Crespi, MD	Rome, Italy
2006	Haruhiro Inoue, MD, FASGE	Tokohama, Japan
2006	Keiichi Kawai, MD	Osaka, Japan
2006	Glacioma Machado, MD	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006	Ibrahim Mostafa, MD	Cairo, Egypt
2006	Claudio S. Navarrete Garcia, MD	Santiago, Chile
2006	G. Nageshwar Reddy, MD	Andhra Pradesh, India
2006	Chan-Sup Shim, MD, FASGE	Seoul, South Korea
2006	Francisco Vilardell, MD	Barcelona, Spain

Congressional Service Award

Congressional Service Award recipients by year, recipient, and institution
Year	Recipient	Institution
2025	The Honorable Sharice Davids	United States House of Representatives
2017	Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ-7)	United States House of Representatives
2016	Rep. Diane Black (R-TN-6)	United States House of Representatives
2016	Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)	United States Senate
2015	Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)	United States Senate
2015	Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10)	United States House of Representatives
2014	Rep. James McGovern (D-MA-2)	United States House of Representatives
2013	Rep. Charles W. Dent (R-PA-15)	United States House of Representatives