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2022 Crystal Awards
Sunday May 22, 2022 U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, CA
John L. Petrini MD, MASGE
For the last 35 years, I have proudly supported the ASGE and its mission through committee work, task forces, leadership, building campaigns and Foundation growth. I believe in the Society, its staff and its mission. I believe that the best minds in Gastroenterology work in our Society. I believe the members bring the finest endoscopic care to our patients and we continuously work to improve patient outcomes. I am grateful to have been able to participate in the growth and improvement of the ASGE and am honored and humbled to have been given the Rudolf Schindler award.
Master Endoscopist Award
Marcia Irene Canto, MD, MHS, FASGE
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
The ASGE is the one professional society that supported me throughout my entire career as a gastroenterology fellow at Johns Hopkins. In my early career, I received the 1993 ASGE Advanced Endoscopic Training Scholarship, which supported my advanced endoscopy fellowship training with Mike Sivak in Cleveland. This was instrumental in initiating my career in therapeutic endoscopy and EUS and led to numerous opportunities to continue developing my endoscopic skills and collaborate with endoscopy colleagues around the world.
Kenneth J. Chang, MD, FASGE
University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California
I am truly honored to be named a 2022 ASGE Master Endoscopist award recipient and doubly privileged to stand next to my fellow awardees, Mimi Canto and Tonya Kaltenbach, who I deeply respect. As an active member of ASGE for 34 years, this society has my utmost regard and loyalty.
Tonya Kaltenbach, MD, FASGE
San Francisco VA Health System, San Francisco, California
I am honored to receive the distinguished Master Endoscopist recognition by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and inspired to continue efforts to advance the training and practice to impact the field.
Distinguished Service Award
Lukejohn Day, MD, FASGE
University of California, San Francisco, California
I am incredibly honored and humbled to receive the ASGE Distinguished Service Award this year! ASGE has been a guiding force in my career and development since I was a fellow; the society has helped to shape and enhance the gastroenterologist I am today. It has been a privilege to work, collaborate, and learn from all the staff and my colleagues with whom I have met through my time at ASGE and it means so much to me to be honored by the society.
Distinguished Educator Award
Simon K. Lo, MD, FASGE
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, California
It is a great honor to receive this year’s ASGE Distinguished Educator Award. Fittingly, I have been in education my entire adult life starting as a schoolteacher in Hong Kong, then a health educator in a community health center in New York’s Lower Eastside, and for the past 35 years as an attending in GI fellowships in Southern California.
William M. Tierney, MD FASGE
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
I am deeply honored to receive the ASGE Distinguished Educator Award. I share this recognition with my mentors and all of the ASGE members and University of Oklahoma faculty and fellows with whom I have had the privilege to work. I am consistently humbled by the impact these interactions have on my own learning and professional development. Receiving the Distinguished Educator Award is an honor I will cherish throughout my career and I am extremely grateful for this recognition.
Distinguished Endoscopic Research Mentoring Award
Sachin Wani, MD, FASGE
University Of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
I am humbled to receive the ASGE Distinguished Endoscopic Research Mentoring Award and would like to express my sincere gratitude to the ASGE for this career milestone award. I am extremely grateful for the outstanding mentorship I have received throughout my career. The unwavering support of my mentors inspires me every single day to ‘pay it forward’ and pave the path for the next generation of endoscopists.
International Service Award
Chandrasekar Thoguluva Seshadri, MD, FASGE
MedIndia Hospitals, Chennai, India
This International Service Award from the ASGE, an organization of 80 years standing with over 14,000 members, is prestigious and adds responsibility to me to pass on the mission of the ASGE to the next generation. I am humbled and immensely grateful to the ASGE.
Congressional Service Award
U.S. Representative Ami Bera
(D - CA-07)
Thanks to everyone at the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy for this significant recognition -- it is truly an honor. This organization is the pinnacle of advancement and innovation in medicine and as a member of Congress and the Bipartisan Health Care Innovation Caucus I will strive to influence health care policy that can increase access to affordable, high-value, sustainable health care.
President’s Award
Ashley L. Faulx, MD, FASGE
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
I am so honored to receive this award. I am thankful for the friends, mentors and colleagues I have met through the ASGE. My service to the Society has enriched my life and my career and I look forward to many more years of work. The ASGE’s undying focus on education in endoscopy and improvement in the care of patients with GI disease is truly inspiring!
Thomas McCourt
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts
I am honored and humbled to accept the 2022 ASGE President's Award. It has been a pleasure working with Doug Rex and the ASGE for so many years and I am proud to be part of the ongoing efforts to advance innovation and care in GI endoscopy. My collaboration with the ASGE spans over 30 years and I have had the great fortune to be involved in so many meaningful programs including the ASGE Young Investigator and Practice Management Conferences, the Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative and the ASGE Board of Trustees. I truly believe that when industry and professional organizations work collaboratively, we can provide even more value to the GI community.
Patrice G. Pickering
Braintree, A Part of Sebela Pharmaceuticals, Braintree, Massachusetts
It is an honor to be recognized as the ASGE President’s Award recipient. I am truly fortunate to work in the specialty of Gastroenterology and with industry professionals for over 30 years. It has been a wonderful and rewarding experience. The relationships and friendships established along the way are invaluable and will last a lifetime. I have worked side by side with the society on several projects, one steppingstone at a time, building a solid partnership. Society and industry together. I have become enamored by the specialty of Gastroenterology, its healthcare professionals and industry partners.
ACG/ASGE Epidemiologic Research Award in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH, FASGE
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
I am honored to receive this prestigious award along with team members Rajesh Keswani and Audrey Calderwood. This award will allow us to use GIQuIC data to explore a critically important yet understudied area of endoscopic practice: polypectomy quality. We are grateful to the ACG and the ASGE for their support of our research.
ASGE Research Award
Samuel Han, MD
The Ohio State University, Cleveland, Ohio
I am deeply humbled by this award and grateful to the ASGE for its support of our research. Our team will be performing a micro-longitudinal pain assessment of patients with chronic pancreatitis who are being treated with pancreatic endotherapy. In capturing baseline and post-procedure pain trajectories, we are hoping to determine whether a patient's response to endotherapy can be predicted. We believe this will help our understanding of how endotherapy affects these patients and most importantly, help tailor an individualized treatment approach to chronic pancreatitis patients.
Heiko Pohl, MD, FASGE
VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont
By providing care we impact the environment and contribute to the climate crisis. The healthcare sector in the US is responsible for 8.5% of greenhouse gas emission. As a procedure intense subspecialty and as the third highest waste generator in a hospital, endoscopy very likely is a major contributor to the healthcare’s carbon footprint. This study represents an important first step in assessing the carbon footprint of performing routine upper endoscopies or colonoscopies. Such measure will provide the basis to understand the impact of any practice intervention to lower the carbon footprint and how such interventions may affect clinically care.
Jonathan Xia, MD
McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
“It is an incredible honor to receive the 2022 ASGE Research Award as a young investigator. This has solidified my desire to become an academic endoscopist and will allow me to develop a research program studying biliary diseases from a microbiome perspective.”
GIE Outstanding Manuscript Award
Yuting Huang, MD
University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Baltimore, Maryland
“I share this prestigious recognition with my mentor Dr. Vivek Kumbhari, co-investigator Dr. Robert Kruse, and the other members of our research team. This award recognized our endeavor in using ERCP to achieve clinically relevant levels of gene delivery into the liver in a human-sized large animal model. I hope this is the very beginning of a career of contributing to furthering the field of gastroenterology and endoscopy.”
Endoscopic Training Award
Stella-Maris Chinma Egboh, MD, MSc
Federal Medical Center, Yenagoa, Nigeria
“I am really elated to be honored with this prestigious ASGE endoscopic training Award. I am optimistic that this award will give me the foremost exposure on the pattern of endoscopic practices and management of various gastro-intestinal disorders in a developed country and its comparison with the existing protocol in Nigeria.”
Margaret G. Keane MBBS, MSc
I would like to sincerely thank the ASGE International Committee for awarding me the 2022 ASGE Endoscopic Training Award. This award will allow me to visit the Mohak Bariatrics and Robotics Centre in Indore, India to obtain hands on training in Bariatric Endoscopy. The unit is one of the leading bariatric units globally, offering the full range of endoscopic bariatric treatments including endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty and revision, TORe and placement of intragastric balloons, including the latest swallowable gastric balloon, which avoids any need for hospitalization or endoscopy. The skills I acquire in Indore will directly benefit patients in the United States on my return. In addition, the program will allow me to develop relationships, which will form the foundation of future studies which will inform the practice of Bariatric Endoscopy. Thank you ASGE!
Diversity Award-Race/Ethnicity
Robert J. Huang, MD
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California
"I am incredibly honored to receive the ASGE Diversity Award. I am an endoscopist and scientist who seeks to use data science to improve disparities in digestive cancer outcomes. Immigrants and minority racial/ethnic groups in the United States are disproportionately burdened by certain cancers, such as gastric cancer. This Award will help support my work in building precision data analytic tools to identify high-risk individuals who can be targeted with effective endoscopic screening modalities."
Diversity Award-Gender
Nabil El Hage Chehade, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
It is a huge honor for me to be this year's recipient of the ASGE Diversity Award. First of all, I would like to recognize my exceptional mentor Dr. Ronnie Fass for the immense contribution and guidance throughout my journey in residency. As a young physician, researcher, and aspiring gastroenterologist, I believe that it is timely essential to promote gender equity and improve the status of women in the healthcare system and specifically in the field of gastroenterology.
J. Edward Berk, MD, DSc, FASGE Endowed Lecture
Mouen Khashab, MD, MASGE
Johns Hopkins University, Towson, Maryland
I am deeply honored to deliver The ASGE J. Edward Berk, MD, DSc, FASGE Endowed Lecture during the ASGE presidential plenary session at DDW 2022. I am very grateful to the ASGE and its president, my mentor, Dr. Douglas Rex, for this opportunity.
Jack A. Vennes, MD and Stephen E. Silvis, MD Endowed Lecture
I am deeply honored to receive the Jack A. Vennes, MD and Stephen E. Silvis, MD Endowed Lecturer Award. Drs. Vennes and Silvis introduced ERCP in this country and laid the foundation for our current ERCP practice. They were visionaries, not by design, but by their actions. I see them as an inspiration to improve what we do, to share what we have learned, and to expand the horizon of our practice for the good of our patients.
Gene and Lyn Overholt Endowed Lecture
Francis A. Farraye, MD, MSc, FASGE
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
It is truly an honor to present the Gene and Lynn Overholt Lecture entitled “Endoscopic Surveillance and Management of Colorectal Dysplasia in IBD” at the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Annual Post Graduate Course at Digestive Disease Week in San Diego. Dr. Overholt, a former President of the ASGE, Master in the American College of Gastroenterology and recipient of the Rudolf Schindler award was a trailblazer making seminal observations in endoscopy that have had a transformational impact in the practice of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy even to this day. His vision has led to the development of large specialty GI practices that offer outpatient endoscopy services bringing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy to our patient's home community.
Basil I. Hirschowitz, MD Endowed Lecture
Michael J. Bourke, MD, MBBS
Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia
I am delighted and deeply humbled to accept this award on behalf of the many dedicated and talented past and present team members, nurses, doctors and research assistants, at the Westmead Endoscopy Unit in Sydney. Sixty-five years ago, Dr. Hirschowitz assembled the original prototype flexible fiberoptic endoscope. This innovation revolutionised the examination of the GI tract, influenced the communications industry at the time, and ultimately led to our gathering here today as clinicians and researchers dedicated to the practice of gastrointestinal endoscopy. He was a mentor, teacher and critical thinker, all qualities that remain a pivotal component of high-quality endoscopic practice today.
Advancing AI in GI Award
Cesare Hassan, MD
Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
This award represents for me a life-time achievement, and it is the result of an intensive networking with the best worldwide experts in Artificial Intelligence to deliver a clinically effective and validated tool to improve the care of our patients. AI is likely to represent the most solid response to the open issue of quality of diagnostic endoscopy, and for this we must pay tribute to the American Society to be the first to have a dedicated task force and to its continuous leadership.
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