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2024 ASGE Crystal Awards

Watergate Hotel, Washington, D.C. | May 19, 2024

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Master Endoscopist Award

Frank G. Gress, MD, FASGE

“I am very grateful and honored to be recognized for the Master Endoscopist Award. This is not only very special to me but is also a significant highlight of my career. But I share this award with the many colleagues that I have had the privilege to work with over the course of my career, especially my mentors (Maurice Cerulli, Rob Hawes, and Glen Lehman) whose guidance and advice over the years has been so invaluable to me and for which I will forever be grateful to for training me and helping me shape my career, and to my fellows, and the many advanced fellows and all my colleagues who I have had the privilege to work with over the years. My career has been successful because of you, and I hope you have learned as much from me as I have from all of you. Lastly, I thank my wife Debbie and my family for their understanding and support throughout my career.”


Dr. Gress is an academic interventional gastroenterologist practicing in New York. He completed medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and his internal medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. This was followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology at The Brooklyn Hospital and the State University of New York, Health Sciences Center & Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn under the direction of Dr. Maurice Cerulli. After completing his GI fellowship, Dr. Gress went on to complete an advanced endoscopy fellowship at the Indiana University Medical Center under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Hawes. It was at IU that Dr. Gress developed his interest in the emerging technology of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) – during its early days of clinical development. He contributed to the early research that solidified the important role EUS plays in the management of many gastrointestinal disorders and advancing EUS technology from a diagnostic modality to an interventional platform, including describing techniques for fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy (FNB) for sampling, pancreaticobiliary access and Celiac Plexus Block.

Dr. Gress has conducted important clinical endoscopic research, including studies addressing emerging techniques and clinical applications for interventional endoscopy. He has also contributed to developing training guidelines and training programs for advanced endoscopy. Dr. Gress has written over 100 original research articles for peer review journals, invited book chapters and editorials. He has edited two highly regarded EUS textbooks – Endoscopic Ultrasonography 4e and the Atlas of Endoscopic Ultrasonography 3e – to support those seeking EUS training or wishing to learn more about interventional endosonography. These texts are recognized as important teaching resources for many trainees and advanced/interventional fellowships. In addition, Dr. Gress has mentored over 60 interventional endoscopy fellows who have gone on to successful careers in interventional/advanced endoscopy. What’s more, his institution’s advanced/interventional fellowship is a highly sought after opportunity for fellows desiring to learn advanced endoscopy. Dr. Gress has also served as faculty and co-director for many courses nationally and internationally, including as faculty for numerous ASGE courses. 

Dr. Gress has been involved in the field of interventional endoscopy for almost 30 years – having held leadership roles at prestigious GI centers of excellence, including Indiana University Hospital, Duke University Hospital, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Mount Sinai, where he is a professor of medicine and the vice chair of the Department of Medicine and the chief of the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Mount Sinai South Nassau. 

Dr. Gress’ clinical practice is focused on advanced endoscopy procedures that are related to pancreaticobiliary disease and gastrointestinal oncology (EUS, ERCP, EMR, ablation), and his research interests include interventional endoscopy, pancreatic disease and the endoscopic diagnosis and management of GI malignancies. Dr. Gress has participated in numerous multicenter and collaborative studies involving EUS, interventional EUS and ERCP, endoscopic ablation and resection techniques, and he has authored papers and reviews on these topics. 

Dr. Gress has been very active in the ASGE. He was chair of the ASGE Training Committee, he has served on the Postgraduate Education, Nominations, Publications, Member Engagement and Diversity committees, and he served as the chair of the ASGE Trainee Engagement Task Force. Dr. Gress is also a member of the editorial review board for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and he is a member of the ASGE DDW Executive Planning Committee. Finally, Dr. Gress is a past president of the New York Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 

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