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.

ASGE Research Award

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.

ASGE Research Award

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.”

Endoscopic Training Award

Margaret G. Keane MBBS, MSc

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

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

Heiko Pohl, MD, FASGE

VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont

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.