Distinguished Clinician Awards
Recognition Award nominations are under review. AGA will announce the 2024 recipients by press release in Spring 2024.
Recognition Award nominations are under review. AGA will announce the 2025 recipients by press release in Spring 2025.
Description
Established in 1996, the Distinguished Clinician Awards recognize two members of the practicing community who combine the art of medicine with the skills demanded by the scientific body of knowledge in service to their patients. One prize is awarded to an individual in private practice and the other to an individual in an academic setting.
Eligibility
- Nominees spend the majority (i.e., greater than 50 percent) of their effort in the delivery of patient care in private practice or an academic setting.
- Nominees must have a current AGA membership.
- Recipients of the Distinguished Clinician Awards become ineligible to receive other AGA recognition prizes for a period of three years subsequent to their receipt of the award.
Selection process
- The recipients are selected by the AGA Recognition Prizes Panel constituting members of the AGA Diversity Committee, AGA Institute Clinical Guidelines Committee, AGA Institute Education and Training Committee, AGA Institute Practice Management and Economics Committee, and AGA Institute Research Policy Committee.
- The AGA Governing Board ratifies the recipients.
- An individual may only receive one AGA recognition prize per year.
Nominations are reviewed according to the eligibility criteria listed above and the following review and selection criteria. Nominees:
- Exemplify leadership and excellence in the practice of gastroenterology.
- Have an exemplary record with AGA through service or leadership on AGA committees and/or the governing board. Recognition as an AGA Fellow is also considered.
- Demonstrate outstanding medical proficiency through their:
- Patient advocacy efforts.
- Degree of direct impact on, and enhancement of, patient care.
- Innovation in patient care, including for example, development of novel technologies that directly impact care, novel value-based payment models, or remote monitoring strategies.
- Degree of demonstrated leadership in national, regional or local organizations.
- Development of patient-centered educational programs.
- Development of clinical programs, for example, the creation of multi-disciplinary clinics, niche population clinics, and/or clinics in underserved communities.
- Volunteer efforts related to clinical care.
- National or regional reputation for excellence in clinical care.
- Impact on the mentorship and development of other clinicians.
Recognition
The recipients are recognized at the AGA Awards Ceremony during Digestive Disease Week®.
Nomination process
All nominations are submitted online by a primary nominator who is an AGA member. The names of additional AGA members who support the nomination should be listed on the nomination form and included as signatories in the nomination letter.
Complete nomination packages include the following supporting materials:
- A nomination letter, not to exceed three pages (1,800 words), copied directly into the nomination form. The primary nominator will sign the letter in the nomination system and can identify additional AGA members to endorse the nomination.
- The nominee’s curriculum vitae. Please upload the file as a PDF titled with the nominee’s last name and first initial (e.g., DoeJ_CV.pdf). Nominations for the private practice award may include a curriculum vitae, resume, or a list of the nominee’s professional accomplishments.
Current members of the AGA Recognition Prizes Panel and AGA Governing Board are prohibited from submitting or supporting nominations.
CONTACT
Please direct all questions about this and other AGA recognition prizes to 301-941-2619 or via email at [email protected].
Recipients (1996-2024)
| 2024 | Scott Ketover, MD, AGAF, FASGE; Shiv Kumar Sarin, MD |
| 2023 | Bo Shen, MD, AGAF; Kadirawel Iswara, MD |
| 2022 | Peter Higgins, MD; George Triadafilopoulos, MD, AGAF, FASGE, FACG, FACP, DSc |
| 2021 | Peter H. R. Green, MD; Nimish B. Vakil, MD, AGAF, FASGE |
| 2020 | Kimberly Persley, MD, AGAF; Gary Lichtenstein, MD, AGAF |
| 2019 | Naresh T. Gunaratnam, MD, AGAF; Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, AGAF |
| 2018 | Bertha (Nice’) E. Toriz, MD; Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF |
| 2017 | Steven Burdick, MD; David Metz, MD, AGAF |
| 2016 | Robert S. Bartolomeo, MD, AGAF; Kim L. Isaacs, MD, PhD, AGAF |
| 2015 | William D. Chey, MD, AGAF; Louis Y. Korman, MD |
| 2014 | Howard L. Taubin, MD; Gary W. Falk, MD, MS, AGAF |
| 2013 | Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF; Lawrence R. Schiller, MD |
| 2012 | John I. Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF; Timothy T. Nostrant, MD, AGAF |
| 2011 | Ioannis C. Danielides, MD; William J. Tremaine, MD, AGAF |
| 2010 | David A. Katzka, MD; James F. Martin, MD, AGAF |
| 2009 | Damian H. Augustyn, MD, AGAF; Lin Chang, MD, AGAF; Robert M. Craig, MD; Stephen Goldfinger, MD |
| 2008 | Charles J. Lightdale, MD, AGAF; Ronald J. Vender, MD, AGAF |
| 2007 | Carla H. Ginsburg, MD; Albert J. Czaja, MD |
| 2006 | Alroy A. Chow, MD; Kenneth R. McQuaid, MD |
| 2005 | Simmy Bank, MD; George F. Longstreth, MD |
| 2004 | James E. Allison, MD; Theodore M. Bayless, MD; John H. Bond, Jr., MD; Cecil H. Chally, MD; William Y. Chey, MD; Julius J. Deren, MD; Thomas D. McCaffery, Jr., MD; Richard E. Sampliner, MD |
| 2003 | Atila Ertan, MD; Joseph F. Fitzgerald, MD; John C. Fletcher, MD; Michael R. Fogel, MD; Stanley B. Goldberg, MD; Paul A. Kantrowitz, MD; Mark A. Peppercorn, MD; Satish S. C. Rao, MD; Caroline A. Riely, MD; Charles S. Winans, MD. |
| 2002 | Marshall S. Bedine, MD, LLC; Ira S. Goldman, MD; Martin L. Greene, MD; John C. McKechnie, MD |
| 2001 | Richard R. Babb, MD; Charles M. Bliss, MD; Stuart H. Danovitch, MD |
| 2000 | Eugene M. Bozymski, MD; Douglas McGill, MD; Bergein Overholt, MD; John Singleton, MD; Frank Troncale, MD, MS |
| 1999 | James J. Cerda, MD; Joseph E. Geenen, MD; Stanley S. Shimoda, MD; Walter R. Thayer, Jr., MD; Alvin M. Zfass, MD |
| 1998 | Edgar Achkar, MD; James L. Borland, Jr., MD; Horacio H. Jinich, MD; Burton I. Korelitz, MD; Robert H. Schapiro, MD |
| 1997 | Alan J. Cameron, MD; Harvey J. Dworken, MD; L. Frederick Fenster, MD; David E. Langdon, MD; Joseph G. Sweeting, MD |
| 1996 | Arnold P. Kaplan, MD; C. Michael Knauer, MD; Daniel E. Polter, MD; Daniel H. Present, MD; Burton A. Shatz, MD |
