Distinguished Mentor Award
Recognition Award nominations are under review. AGA will announce the 2025 recipients by press release in Spring 2025.
Recognition Award nominations are under review. AGA will announce the 2024 recipients by press release in Spring 2024.
Description
Established in 2004, the Distinguished Mentor Award recognizes one individual for their achievements as an outstanding mentor.
Eligibility
- Nominees have dedicated long-term efforts to the mentoring of others in in digestive disease fields. Mentees may range from students and trainees, to fellows, junior faculty or those in practice.
- Nominees must have a current AGA membership.
- Recipients of the Distinguished Mentor Award become ineligible to receive other AGA recognition prizes for a period of three years subsequent to their receipt of the award.
Selection process
- The recipient is selected by the AGA Recognition Prizes Panel constituting members of the AGA Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, AGA Institute Clinical Guidelines Committee, AGA Institute Education and Training Committee and AGA Institute Research Policy Committee.
- The AGA Governing Board ratifies the recipient.
- 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:
- Have demonstrated exemplary service to AGA through service or leadership on AGA committees, journal editorial boards and/or the governing board. Recognition as an AGA Fellow is also considered.
- Have fostered the utmost, ethical and inclusive academic standards in classroom, clinical and research environments, including a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Have positively influenced the professional pursuits of mentees, through for example, inclusion as co-authors on publications or co-investigators on grants, by providing opportunities for presentations at extramural research conferences, and/or through sponsorship in other professional pursuits related to digestive health.
- Have numerous former mentees who have gone on to clinical practices or faculty appointments, and to success in securing professional appointments, leadership positions, research discoveries, honors and awards, and/or grant funding. Irrespective of the mentoring focus, the nomination should quantify and describe the impact of the mentorship on the development of others.
Current members of the AGA Recognition Prizes Panel and AGA Governing Board are prohibited from submitting or supporting nominations.
Recognition
The recipient is 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).
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 (2005-2024)
| 2024 | John Pandolfino, MD |
| 2023 | Satish S.C. Rao, MD, PhD, AGAF |
| 2022 | Anna Lok, MD, AGAF |
| 2021 | Vay Liang W. Go, MD, AGAF |
| 2020 | Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD |
| 2019 | Fred S. Gorelick, MD |
| 2018 | Mary K. Estes, PhD, AGAF |
| 2017 | John Carethers, MD, AGAF; Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD |
| 2016 | Pauline K. Lund, PhD; Anil K. Rustgi, MD, AGAF |
| 2015 | Susan J. Henning, PhD; M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD |
| 2014 | Gregory J. Gores, MD, AGAF; Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF |
| 2013 | John T. LaMont, MD, AGAF |
| 2012 | Michael Camilleri, MD, AGAF |
| 2011 | Chung Owyang, MD |
| 2010 | Tadataka Yamada, MD, AGAF |
| 2009 | Jerry S. Trier, MD, AGAF |
| 2008 | Michael Field, MD |
| 2007 | Henry J. Binder, MD |
| 2006 | Young S. Kim, MD |
| 2005 | Nicholas F. La Russo, MD, AGAF |
