Advocacy & Policy
Advocacy & Policy
AGA PAC 2023 Annual Report
Thank you to the 432 AGA members who collectively contributed $83,678 to AGA PAC. Together we supported pro-GI, pro-patient candidates who work to advance critical issues impacting gastroenterology, our patients and our research.
Candidates we supported
AGA PAC prioritizes support for physician candidates and members who serve on on key committees and subcommittees with health oversight:
- Senate Finance Committee
- Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee
- Senate Appropriations Committee
- House Ways and Means Committee
- House Energy and Commerce Committee House Appropriations Committee
The AGA PAC Board of Advisors, a non-partisan group of GI clinicians and researchers appointed by the AGA Governing Board, decide which candidates receive donations from AGA PAC. The PAC supports candidates who support AGA’s policy priorities.
View the list of candidates supported in the 2024 cycle updated in real-time.
Senate
- Sen. Roger W. Marshall (R-KS)
- Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) gastroenterologist
- Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Sen. John Barrasso, MD (R-WY) orthopedic surgeon
House of Representatives
- Rep. Ami Bera, MD (D-CA-06) internist
- Rep. Raul Ruiz, MD (D-CA-36) emergency physician
- Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03)
- Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16)
- Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26)
- Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA-01)
- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-01) ophthalmologist
- Rep. Robyn Kelly (D-IL-02)
- Rep. Larry Bucshon, MD (R-IN-8) cardiothoracic surgeon
- Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY-02)
- Rep. Richard “Richie” Neal (D-MA-01)
- Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA-02)
- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08)
- Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ-10)
- Rep. Brad R. Wenstrup, DPM (R-OH-02) podiatric surgeon
- Rep. John Joyce, MD (R-PA-13) dermatologist
- Rep. Mark Green, MD (R-TN-07) emergency physician
- Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX-12)
- Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01)
- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-05)
- Rep. Kim Schrier, MD (D-WA-08) pediatrician
National Party Committees
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
- National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)
Thank you, AGA PAC donors!
Your contribution gives GIs a seat at the table when critical health policy decisions are made and helps ensure we have the resources to support our champions.
- Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF
- Joel V. Brill, MD, AGAF
- Steven L. Carpenter, MD, AGAF
- Laurel R. Fisher, MD, AGAF
- James W. Freston, MD, PhD, AGAF
- Lisa M. Gangarosa, MD, AGAF
- Rajeev Jain, MD, AGAF
- Peter Scott Margolis, MD, AGAF
- Suzette Rivera MacMurray, MD
- F. Taylor Wootton, MD, AGAF
- Sadeea Abbasi, MD, PhD
- John I. Allen MD, MBA, AGAF
- Nadeem A. Baig, MD
- Emil J. Blanco, MD
- Donald R. Campbell, MD, AGAF
- Karen A. Chachu, MD, PhD
- Victor Chedid, MD, MS
- Ravi S. Chittajallu, MD
- Jeffrey S. Crippin, MD
- Byron L. Cryer, MD
- W. Kern Deschner, MD
- Naresh T. Gunaratnam, MD, AGAF
- Stephen Peter Holland, MD
- Jesse P. Houghton, MD
- Joel R. Judah, MD
- Barbara H. Jung, MD, AGAF
- Scott R. Ketover, MD, AGAF
- Lawrence S. Kim, MD, AGAF
- Michelle K. Kim, MD, MSc, AGAF
- Sonia S. Kupfer, MD
- Lenkala R. Mallaiah, MD
- William Mayoral, MD
- Lawrence McCormack, MD
- Michael Mendoza, MD
- Linda Anh B. Nguyen, MD
- Robert A. Nussbaum, MD
- Ibironke Oduyebo, MD
- Amit Patel, MD
- Arpan A. Patel, MD
- Mark D. Prince, MD
- Maged Rizk, MD
- Richard Robbins, MD
- Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF
- Michael I. Schulman, DO
- Brijen J. Shah, MD
- Nihar N. Shah, MD
- Siddharth Singh, MD
- Michael W. Stavinoha, MD
- Ellen M. Stein, MD
- Harold L. Sussewell, MD
- Vaibhav Wadhwa, MD
- Michael L. Weinstein, MD
- Cynthia M. Yoshida, MD, AGAF
- Megan A. Adams, MD
- Bahar Adeli, MD
- Samer H. Al-Shurieki, MD
- Ghazaleh Aram, MD
- Mark S. Avila, MD
- Muyiwa Awoniyi, MD
- Dale R. Bachwich, MD
- George L. Barrett, MD
- Kim E. Barrett, PhD, AGAF
- Charles Bigajer, MD
- Elisa Katherine Boden, MD
- Steven R. Brant, MD
- Gregory Brennan, MD
- Michael D. Brown, MD
- Ronald J. Brzana, MD
- Norman M. Callahan, DO
- Michael Camilleri, MD, AGAF
- John M. Carethers, MD
- Rotonya M. Carr, MD, FACP
- Fernando S. Carreira, MD
- Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, AGAF
- Sreekanth R. Chandrupatla, MD
- Sreenivas Chintalapani, MD
- Tusar Kishore Desai, MD
- Wael M. El-Rifai MD, PhD
- Rosemarie L. Fisher, PhD, AGA
- Susan E. Fleet, MD
- Jeffrey Mark Fox, MD, AGAF
- Ziad F. Gellad, MD
- Bryan T. Green, MD
- Katarina B. Greer, MD, MPH
- Sushovan Guha, MD, PhD
- Nadim G, Haddad, MD
- Robert J. Hally, MD
- Shirley Ann Harris, MD
- Wendy A. Henderson, PhD, FAASLD
- Marwan Iskandarani, MD
- Laith H. Jamil, MD
- Bradford W. Joseph, MD
- Charles J. Kahi, MD
- Jeffrie L. Kamean, MD
- David Harris Kerman, MD
- Steven R. Klein, DO
- Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF
- Kevin M. Kolendich, MD
- Anna M. Korkis, MD
- Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF
- Ronald P. Kotfila, MD
- David P. Lee, MD, MPH
- Joseph Losurdo, MD
- Anuj P. Manocha, MD
- David Farra Martin, MD
- Lisa Kaiser Mathew, MD, MSPH
- Kenneth R. Mauer, MD
- Richard W. McCallum, MD
- Daniel Megna, MD
- Luis S. Nasiff, MD
- Mark R. Nyce, MD
- Heather M. Patton, MD, MSPH
- Vonda Reeves-Darby, MD
- Ricardo Esteban Rodriguez, MD
- Brian Patrick Rutledge, MD
- George Saffouri, MD
- Jeffrey S. Sams, MD, FASGE, AGAF
- Zaifi Shanavas, MD
- Shazia M. Siddique, MD
- Sundeep Singh, MD
- George B. Smallfield, MD
- Richard K. Sterling, MD
- Sarah E. Streett, MD
- David B. Sutherland, MD
- Laurie-Anne Camiel Swaby, MD
- Radha A. Tamerisa, MD
- Phillip I. Tarr, MD
- Nice Bertha E. Toriz, MD
- Tu V. Tran, MD
- Ramsey K. Umar, MD
- Matthew James Whitson, MD
- Roy K. Wong MD, FACG
- Richard Kevin Wood, MD
AGA PAC in action
AGA PAC VIP Donors at the annual reception at DDW. (L-R: Nicé Toriz, MD, AGAF; Karen A. Chachu, MD, PhD; Laurel R. Fisher, MD, AGAF; Rotonya M. Carr, MD, FACP; Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF; and Shazia M. Siddique, MD.)
AGA PAC donors, September 2023
Rep. Kim Schrier, MD (D-WA) and Rotonya M. Carr, MD, FACP during AGA PAC’s Catch up with Congress donor event.
