AGA Leadership
AGA Leadership
AGA Institute Governing Board
The AGA Institute Governing Board guides the organization in implementing its strategic plan. Get to know our 2020-2021 board members.
President
John M. Inadomi, MD, AGAF
University of Utah School of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
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John M. Inadomi, MD, AGAF, received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), followed by an internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at UCSF. Dr. Inadomi has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico, the University of Michigan, UCSF, the University of Washington, and the University of Utah where he is the Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair and Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Inadomi’s research interests include comparative effectiveness analysis and health services/outcomes research. His current focus is optimizing management of Barrett’s esophagus, and improving screening to reduce mortality from colorectal cancer. His NIH research portfolio includes CISNET, a consortium of computer simulation scientists who conduct comparative effectiveness studies of competing management strategies to reduce cancer mortality; a collaboration between basic, translational and clinical investigators to reduce mortality from esophageal adenocarcinoma; and a project to test innovative interventions to improve adherence to cancer screening tests.
John has been an active member of AGA for more than 25 years and has served as the chair of the Clinical Practice and Quality Management Committee, chair of the Clinical Practice section of the AGA Council, Director of the AGA/AASLD Academic Skills Workshop, and Co-Director of the AGA Post-Graduate Course. He is currently an associate editor for Gastroenterology. He served on the governing board as the clinical research councilor from 2015 to 2018 and in 2019 was elected to the AGA governing board as vice president. Dr. Inadomi become president of AGA in May 2021 at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW).
President-Elect
John M. Carethers, MD, AGAF
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
John M. Carethers, MD, AGAF, received his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Carethers completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston followed by his gastroenterology fellowship at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After establishing his career at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Carethers returned to the University of Michigan Health System in 2009 to take on his current position as the John G. Searle professor of internal medicine and chair of the department of internal medicine.
Dr. Carethers’ research programs focus on familial colon cancer and polyposis syndromes including familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). These research activities have also focused on hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), juvenile polyposis, hyperplastic polyposis, and colorectal cancer.
An active member of AGA for more than 20 years, Dr. Carethers was the recipient of the AGA Gastrointestinal Oncology Section Research Mentor Award as well as the AGA Distinguished Mentor Award in 2017. Dr. Carethers has served on several AGA committees, including the AGA Nominating Committee, AGA Underrepresented Minorities Committee, AGA Research Policy Committee, AGA Institute Council and early in his career on the AGA Trainee & Young GI Committee. He has also served as section editor of Gastroenterology. Dr. Carethers joined the AGA Governing Board in June 2020 as vice president and now serves as president-elect before taking over as president in 2022.
Vice President
Barbara Jung, MD, AGAF
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Barbara Jung, MD, AGAF, is a professor and chair of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. As a practicing gastroenterologist and physician-scientist, her expertise in gastrointestinal disease is extensive, and her research interests range from basic to clinical science. She completed her medical degree with thesis at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. She then moved to the U. S. and completed post-doctoral studies in colon cancer at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in San Diego, California under the mentorship of Dr. Michael McClelland. She completed both her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the University of California in San Diego in 2004 under the mentorship of Dr. John Carethers.
Dr. Jung’s research interests are far ranging and include both clinical and basic research. Her clinical focus is in hereditary GI diseases, and she leads a multidisciplinary, personalized high-risk GI cancer clinic with an associated registry. Her NIH-funded laboratory centers on TGF family member signaling in GI disease, including colorectal cancer and pancreatitis. Her research centers on the mechanisms of GI epithelial cell growth and motility and specifically the modulation of growth suppressive and pro-migratory signaling by TGF family members, primarily activin. Her work in pancreatitis focuses on the relationship between activin signaling and inflammation. Dr. Jung has a strong record of fostering research collaboration between basic, translational and clinical research. Her passion for training the next generation of clinicians is evidenced by her participation in mentoring events including acting as an Invited Mentor for the AGA Task Force on Mentoring; she was the co-chair/chair of the AGA Academic Skills Workshops in 2016 and 2018.
Dr. Jung has a diverse history of service within AGA. She has volunteered for terms on multiple committees including finance and operations, nominating and research policy, among others. She has chaired the ethics committee and the audit committee, and has been an associate editor or on the editorial board of multiple AGA publications.
Secretary/Treasurer
Lawrence S. Kim, MD, AGAF
South Denver Gastroenterology, P.C.
Littleton, Colorado
Lawrence S. Kim, MD, AGAF, pursued his undergraduate education at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, and then completed internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He went on to gastroenterology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, where he completed advanced training in outcomes research and endoscopic ultrasound.
Dr. Kim has dedicated his career to the clinical practice of gastroenterology. After fellowship, he joined South Denver Gastroenterology in Lone Tree, Colorado. He has served as medical director as well as a member of the executive committee and has contributed to the growth of this organization to 22 physicians currently. He serves on the medical staff of Sky Ridge Medical Center, Lone Tree, Colorado, and at Swedish Medical Center, Englewood, Colorado. His areas of focus include practice management and advanced endoscopy.
An active member of AGA for over 20 years, Dr. Kim served on the AGA Institute Governing Board as the community private practice councillor from 2011 to 2014. He was the editor for AGA eDigest from 2012 to 2014 and has directed the AGA Winter Postgraduate Course as well as the AGA NP/PA Course. He has represented AGA on the board of directors of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare since 2004. In addition, he has served on the Finance & Operations Committee, Digestive Health Outcomes Registry, Practice Management and Economics Committee, and Clinical Practice Updates Committee, among other AGA committees and task forces. In May 2017, Dr. Kim rejoined the governing board as the new secretary/treasurer-elect.
Secretary/Treasurer-Elect
John Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan
John I. Allen MD, MBA, AGAF, received his bachelor’s degree from Rice University. He obtained his medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine and gastroenterology training at the University of Minnesota and spent ten years on its academic faculty, serving at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center as a grant-funded researcher in colorectal cancer. In 1991, he joined a Twin-Cities-based private gastroenterology practice and, over the ensuing 20 years, helped build Minnesota Gastroenterology into one of the largest GI practices in the country. As Medical Director and Director of Quality, he led the development of their nationally known quality program. In 2001, he returned to school and obtained an MBA in Medical Group Management from the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis. In 2013, he left private practice to become clinical chief of digestive diseases and professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. In 2016, he moved to the University of Michigan School of Medicine (Ann Arbor, Michigan) as a clinical professor of medicine and clinical chief of gastroenterology. The following year, he became the chief clinical officer of the University of Michigan Medical Group, helping oversee the $2 billion ambulatory care infrastructure at Michigan Medicine.
John also has been a leader at Allina Health, a large non-profit health system in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He has served as chair of both the Quality and Population Health Committee and system-wide Credentialing Committee, sits on the Audit and Finance Committee and the Board of Directors (both ending in 2021). From 2006-2009, he chaired the Board of Directors of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement in Minnesota.
John has been an active member of AGA for over 40 years. He has served in multiple leadership roles, including Community Practice Councillor, chair of the Clinical Practice and Quality Management Committee, Foundation Board member, and several guideline committees. Dr. Allen was president of AGA from 2014-2015 and now has returned to the AGA Governing Board as secretary/treasurer (2022-26). He is current editor in chief of GI and Hepatology News (ending 2021) and was awarded the Julius Friedenwald Medal in 2019 — AGA’s highest award for lifetime achievement in gastroenterology.
Past President
M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, AGAF
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, AGAF, received his undergraduate degree from George Mason University, his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and his MD from the University of Miami. After internal medicine residency at the University of California, Irvine, and fellowship in gastroenterology at UCSD, he moved to Stanford University where he was for 19 years. While at Stanford, he served as chief of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology and director of its NIH funded P30 digestive disease center and its T32 training program.
In 2008, Dr. Omary moved to the University of Michigan Medical School where he served in several capacities chair of its Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and as Executive Vice Dean for Research and Chief Scientific Officer. In August 2019, he began a new role as Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers University. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received several mentoring and teaching awards from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and AGA. He is an internationally recognized biomedical investigator and his currently active laboratory studies the pathogenesis, therapeutic approaches and biomarkers related to intermediate filament proteins and their associated diseases and to porphyrias.
Dr. Omary has been involved with AGA in several capacities. He has served as member of several committees, including chairing the AGA Institute Research Awards Panel, and served as associate editor (2006-2011) then editor-in-chief (2011-2016) of Gastroenterology. Dr. Omary is a member of the AGA Institute Governing Board and served as president of AGA in May 2020-2021.
At-Large Councillor
Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF, received her medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida. She then completed her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and her gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA School of Medicine, where she also completed her post-doctoral fellowship in molecular and cancer biology. In 2008, Dr. Abreu returned to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, serving as chief of gastroenterology from 2008-2016. She currently serves as the director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center as well as the vice chair for research for the department of medicine.
Dr. Abreu’s research focuses on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer. She has also operationalized the “University of Miami IBD Center Clinical Phenotype Database and Tissue Repository,” which includes one of the largest numbers of Hispanic samples in the U.S. She has more than 100 publications and has received numerous honors, such as the Distinguished Clinician Award in the department of medicine for the University of Miami.
Dr. Abreu has made numerous contributions to AGA, most notably serving as the former chair of the AGA Institute Council, which plans AGA’s programming for Digestive Disease Week® (DDW). She has served on many AGA committees, including the nominating committee, public affairs and advocacy committee, and the committee for under-represented minorities.
At-Large Councillor for Development and Growth
Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF, is the Wilmott Family Professor of Medicine and professor of medicine in surgery in the gastroenterology division at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kochman is a graduate of Northwestern University (BA, Economics, 1982) and the University of Illinois Medical School at Chicago (MD, 1986). He served his residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was Chief Resident at West Side VA under Dr. Clifford Pilz from 1989-90. Subsequently Dr. Kochman completed his fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Clinics in Ann Arbor in 1993 under the direction of Drs. Chung Owyang and Tadataka Yamada. During that time Dr. Kochman also underwent training in interventional endoscopy and had specialized training in endoscopic ultrasound at Indiana University under the auspices of Drs. Robert Hawes and Maurits Wiersema. Subsequently he was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Peter Traber, were he rose through the ranks from assistant professor.
While at the University of Pennsylvania he served in various capacities including as vice-chair for Clinical Services and as development officer for the Department of Medicine, on the School of Medicine Committee of Appointments and Promotions (COAP), the Physicians Billing Oversight Committee and numerous departmental review and search committees. Within the GI division he has served as fellowship chairman and runs the regular endoscopy and advanced endoscopy training programs and directs the Wilmott Center for Endoscopic Innovation, Research, and Training. He has received a number of awards including the Luigi Mastroianni Clinical Innovator and Special Recognition Patient Advocacy Awards from the Health System as well as the Sid Cohen, MD, and Donald Martin, MD, awards for the education of fellows and residents.
Dr. Kochman has served many local and national societies in a variety of positions. He was honored and inducted as a fellow into the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The ASGE recognized him as the ‘Master Endoscopist’ in 2015 and AGA recognized him as the ‘Distinguished Academic Clinician’ in 2018. His current major national commitments are to AGA as a Governing Board Councillor, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and to the Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR). He has served AGA on the Education Committee, the Public Affairs Committee, was chair of the Regulatory Workgroup and is past chair of the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology. Dr. Kochman served as chair of the GIE Editorial Board, treasurer of the ASGE Foundation, and was a councilor of the ASGE Governing Board. Also, for the ASGE Dr. Kochman has served on the Post-Graduate Education Committee, the EUS SIG, the Research Committee, the Program Committees and has directed numerous post-graduate courses. He is a past president of the Delaware Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and was the program chairman for the Pennsylvania State Gastroenterology Society.
Dr. Kochman regularly speaks for various local GI societies and at SGNA meetings. He is frequently at national and international meetings as a lecturer, moderator and at Meet the Professor sessions on various topics including management of neoplasia, maintenance of luminal patency, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). He also serves as faculty for hands-on training courses held both nationally and internationally for EUS, ERCP, endoprosthetics and hemostasis.
Dr. Kochman is editor for Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Dr. Kochman has published over 250 articles, chapters and videos. He has edited 19 published books, among them: the Clinicians Guide to Gastrointestinal Oncology (ed Kochman), Advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (eds Ginsberg, Gostout, Kochman and Norton) and Endoscopic Oncology: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Cancer Management (eds Faigel and Kochman).
Basic Research Councillor
Nicholas O. Davidson, MD, DSc, AGAF
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Nicholas Davidson, MD, DSc, AGAF, received his medical degree from King’s College, University of London in England. Dr. Davidson completed his internship at King’s College Hospital and residency at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, England. He then undertook research training at Rockefeller University, New York and completed his gastroenterology fellowship training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (New York Presbyterian Medical Center).
Dr. Davidson is currently the John E. and Adaline Simon professor of medicine and division director of gastroenterology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He also serves as the PI/director of the P30 Digestive Disease Research Core Center and the T-32 training grant in academic gastroenterology at Washington University in which he oversees and directs strategic allocation of resources and enabling technology in advancing studies of host environmental interactions in digestive and liver disease.
Prior to his recruitment to Washington University, he served as director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program at the University of Chicago and was co-director of the University of Chicago Medical Scientist Training Program.
His long standing basic-translational research program focuses on the role of gatekeeper genes that regulate intestinal and hepatic lipoprotein assembly and secretion, including apoB and microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (Mttp). These research activities have focused on the molecular genetics of intestinal lipid transport, enterohepatic bile acid signaling and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Dr. Davidson’s clinical-translational interests have focused on various aspects of colorectal cancer, including inherited and familial syndromes. These studies aim to advance understanding of disparities and poverty in outcomes of colorectal cancer patients, looking specifically at neighborhood and geographic impact.
Dr. Davidson is an active member of AGA, previously serving as chair of the AGA Institute Council Section for Basic and Clinical Intestinal Disorders and the AGA Research Policy Committee and Research Awards Panel. AGA has honored Dr. Davidson with the AGA Institute Council Section Research Mentor Award and AGA Research Foundation Scholar Award funded by GlaxoSmithKline. This is Dr. Davidson’s second time on the governing board; he previously served on the AGA Institute Governing Board 2002-2004.
Clinical Research Councillor
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, AGAF
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, AGAF received his ScB from Brown University, medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and master of public health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). He did his internal medicine residency and chief residency, followed by gastroenterology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he remains on faculty. He is professor of medicine at HMS, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at HSPH, chief of the clinical and translational epidemiology unit at MGH and the director of epidemiology at the MGH Cancer Center. He is the former program director of the MGH GI Fellowship Program. Dr. Chan is a gastroenterologist and a leading investigator in cancer prevention, supported as an Outstanding Investigator of the National Cancer Institute, Team Leader for the Stand Up to Cancer Gastric Cancer Interception Team, and by grants from the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute on Aging.
An elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, he has published over 500 papers in the field of colorectal cancer and other chronic digestive diseases in leading journals, including the NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Science, Nature Medicine, Gastroenterology and Gut.
Dr. Chan is a section editor for Gastroenterology, and serves on the editorial board of JNCI, Cancer Prevention Research, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. He is past chair of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Section of the AGA Institute Council, past chair of the AGA Institute Research Policy Committee, is a past member of the GRG Steering Committee and has served as a member of the AGA Institute Clinical Practice and Quality Measures Committee, Training Subcommittee, and AGA Nominating Committee. He also chairs the Molecular Epidemiology Group of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Practice Councillor
Naresh Gunaratnam, MD, AGAF
President and CEO
Huron Gastro Center for Digestive Care
Naresh Gunaratnam, MD, AGAF, completed his GI fellowship at the University of Michigan and an advanced endoscopy fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He has served as president of the Michigan GI society for seven years and currently serves on the executive board of Digestive Health Physician Association as chair of data analytics. He joined Huron Gastro in Ann Arbor Michigan in 1999 and established the EUS program. He has authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and book chapters while in private practice and co-authored an article entitled “Establishing an Effective Weight Loss Program in a Community Practice” (Clinical Gastro August 2019, Volume 17:9:1669-72). He served on the AGA task force to develop obesity treatment as a service line. The Huron Gastro Wellness program addresses nutrition, fitness, sleep and mental health to holistically approach weight loss. He is a strong believer that gastroenterologists should provide obesity management as a service line.
He was awarded the AGA distinguished clinician award (physician in private practice) in 2019 and was elected the president and CEO of Huron Gastro in 2021. Dr. Gunaratnam has been a member of the AGA Institute Practice Management and Economics Committee, Obesity Task Force, AGA Public Affairs and Advocacy Committee and the AGA Trainee and Young GI Committee. His outside interests include being president of the non-profit which runs an orphanage for 40 girls in Sri Lanka (www.gracegirlshome.org). He is married to Dr. Aruna Sarma and they have two college aged children, Nikhil and Sejal.
Practice Councillor
Michael L. Weinstein, MD, AGAF
Capital Digestive Care, LLC
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Michael Weinstein, MD, AGAF, began his career in private practice gastroenterology in 1985. He led the development of one the first ambulatory endoscopy centers to receive Medicare certification in 1986. His interest in the early addition of technology into medical practice includes adoption of video endoscopy in 1989, development of endowriter software with cMore (ProVation) and gMed, and as a former AMA CPT Advisory Panel representative, aided Given Imaging, Medtronics and Ethicon in requesting new CPT codes for technology innovations. In 2009, he spearheaded the merger of seven practices to form Capital Digestive Care and is now president and CEO of a practice of 69 physicians in the Washington, D.C., and suburban Mid-Atlantic region. He has a special interest in independent physician advocacy and is the immediate past president of the Digestive Health Physician Association and the clinical counselor on the AGA Governing Board.
He is an active fundraiser for the AGA Foundation that supports young investigator gastroenterology research and has helped lead Capital Digestive Care to be the principle sponsor for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation’s Greater Washington DC Chapter.
Capital Digestive Care and PE (formerly Physicians Endoscopy) recently launched PE Practice Solutions, a unique, physician-oriented management service organization aligned with the interests of gastroenterologists in independent practice. Dr. Weinstein is serving as the medical director of the new MSO. PE Practice Solutions partners with gastroenterologists in private practice, providing advanced operational support with access to experts, information and tools to grow.
Education & Training Councillor
David A. Katzka, MD, AGAF
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
David A. Katzka, MD, received his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, New York. He then completed his residency in internal medicine at the same institution, and his gastroenterology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Dr. Katzka is a professor of medicine and consultant at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Katzka’s research focuses on eosinophilic esophagitis, esophageal motility disorders, gastroesophageal reflux, Barrett’s esophagus and unusual esophageal diseases. He has many publications and 30 years of experience in the treatment and understanding of esophageal diseases. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work in the field, including AGA’s Distinguished Clinician Award in 2010, and the Mayo Department of Medicine Outstanding Mentorship Award in 2016.
Dr. Katzka has made a lasting impact on AGA’s scientific publications, serving as an editorial board member of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and as a reviewer of Gastroenterology. He has been a member of multiple committees at AGA, including the Clinical Practice Updates Committee, Education & Training Committee, and CME subcommittees, the Digestive Disease Week® council and as a director of the AGA Postgraduate Course. In 2019, he joined the AGA Institute Governing Board as education & training councillor.
AGA Research Foundation Chair
Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF, received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Union College in Schenectady, New York. He received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and his masters of public health from University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. Dr. Sandler has committed his entire professional career to UNC, serving in growing capacities since he first joined the department of medicine as a GI fellow in 1978. He now serves as the Nina C. and John T. Sessions distinguished professor of medicine.
Dr. Sandler can be credited with giving the field of digestive disease epidemiology and outcomes an early boost. He has maintained an extraordinarily productive career over the past 30 years that has focused on research investigating the etiology and prevention of colon cancer; training and mentoring a generation of GI epidemiologists and academic gastroenterologists; directing the UNC’s multidisciplinary NIDDK-funded Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease; developing a national clinical trials data management resource; and leading an outstanding division of gastroenterology and hepatology.
Dr. Sandler has worked selflessly for AGA in many capacities. In May 2015, he was appointed to the AGA Governing Board as AGA Research Foundation chair-elect, and now serves as chair. This will be Dr. Sandler’s third term on the board; notably he served as president of AGA from 2008 to 2009. Before his most recent appointment to the governing board, Dr. Sandler served as chair of the AGA Publications Committee, and has previously served on the Nominating Committee (twice — once as chair), Audit Committee, Executive Committee, Outcomes Research Award Review Panel, Futures Committee, Research Policy Committee, Burden of Disease Task Force, Public Policy Committee and GI Oncology Task Force. Dr. Sandler has also served as an associate editor of Gastroenterology.
Foundation Chair-Elect
Michael Camilleri, MD, AGAF
Consultant, Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Michael Camilleri is a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and is professor of medicine, pharmacology, and physiology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. His research interests include clinical enteric neurosciences, gut neurohormonal control, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, and pharmacology and pharmacogenomics; his work is funded by NIH. He has received numerous awards and honors including the 2012 Ismar Boas Medal from the German Society of Digestive and Metabolic Disease, the 2012 American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Distinguished Mentor Award, the Janssen Research Award, the AGA Joseph B. Kirsner Award, the AGA Julius Friedenwald Medal in 2021, as well as honorary doctorates from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and the University of Malta, and he was elected to the membership of the prestigious Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Camilleri participates in educational and mentorship activities at Mayo Clinic and has mentored more than 80 national and international postdoctoral fellows and scientists. He maintains an active clinical practice in gastroenterology at Mayo Clinic, specializing in gastrointestinal motility disorders, gastroparesis and functional GI disorders.
Dr. Camilleri is past-president of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and AGA, former editor of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Neurogastroenterology and Motility, and is currently an associate editor of American Journal of Physiology.
Past AGA Presidents
| 2020 M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, AGAF |
| 2019 Hashem B. El-Serag |
| 2018 David A. Lieberman |
| 2017 Sheila E. Crowe |
| 2016 Timothy C. Wang |
| 2015 Michael Camilleri |
| 2014 John I. Allen |
| 2013 Anil K. Rustgi |
| 2012 Loren Laine |
| 2011 C. Richard Boland |
| 2010 Ian L. Taylor |
| 2009 Gail A. Hecht |
| 2008 Robert S. Sandler |
| 2007 Nicholas F. LaRusso |
| 2006 Mark Donowitz |
| 2005 David A. Peura |
| 2004 Emmet B. Keeffe |
| 2003 Daniel K. Podolsky |
| 2002 Martin Brotman |
| 2001 Jon I. Isenberg |
| 2000 Thomas A. Brasitus |
| 1999 Ralph A. Giannella |
| 1998 Donald O. Castell |
| 1997 Phillip P. Toskes |
| 1996 Tadataka Yamada |
| 1995 James W. Freston |
| 1994 John H. Walsh |
| 1993 Don W. Powell |
| 1992 Walter J. Hogan |
| 1991 Sidney Cohen |
| 1990 David H. Alpers |
| 1989 Eugene D. Jacobson |
| 1988 Robert M. Glickman |
| 1987 John M. Dietschy |
| 1986 Douglas B. McGill |
| 1985 Jerry S. Trier |
| 1984 Norton J. Greenberger |
| 1983 Thomas R. Hendrix |
| 1982 John T. Farrar |
| 1981 Malcolm P. Tyor |
| 1980 Frank P. Brooks |
| 1979 Robert M. Donaldson, Jr. |
| 1978 William Silen |
| 1977 John A. Benson, Jr. |
| 1976 Marvin H. Sleisenger |
| 1975 Fred Kern, Jr. |
| 1974 Kurt J. Isselbacher |
| 1973 Albert I. Mendeloff |
| 1972 Henry D. Janowitz |
| 1971 Nicholas C. Hightower |
| 1970 James A. Clifton |
| 1969 Stewart G. Wolf |
| 1968 Thomas C. Chalmers |
| 1967 Morton I. Grossman |
| 1966 Wade Volwiler |
| 1965 Joseph B. Kirsner |
| 1964 Charles F. Code |
| 1963 Thomas P. Almy |
| 1962 G. Gordon McHardy |
| 1961 Franz J. Ingelfinger |
| 1960 Hugh R. Butt |
| 1959 H. Marvin Pollard |
| 1958 Clifford J. Barborka |
| 1957 Mandred W. Comfort |
| 1956 S. Allen Wilkinson |
| 1955 Robert Elman |
| 1954 Dwight L. Wilbur |
| 1953 Julian M. Ruffin |
| 1952 A.M. Snell |
| 1951 T. Brier Miller |
| 1950 John G. Mateer |
| 1949 J. Arnold Bargen |
| 1948 Albert F.R. Anderson |
| 1947 Henry L. Bockus |
| 1946 Walter L. Palmer |
| 1945 A.H. Aaron |
| 1944 A.H. Aaron |
| 1943 Sara M. Jordon |
| 1942 Sara M. Jordon |
| 1941 Russel S. Boles |
| 1940 Andrew C. Ivy |
| 1939 Irvin Abell |
| 1938 Ernest H. Gaither |
| 1937 Chester M. Jones |
| 1936 Ralph C. Brown |
| 1935 Howard F. Shattuck |
| 1934 B.B. Vincent Lyons |
| 1933 John Bryant |
| 1932 Burrill B. Crohn |
| 1931 Clement R. Jones |
| 1930 Ludwig Kast |
| 1929 Frank Smithies |
| 1928 Walter C. Alvarez |
| 1927 George M. Piersol |
| 1926 Franklin W. White |
| 1925 Charles G. Lucas |
| 1924 A.F. Chace |
| 1923 David Riesman |
| 1923 R.W. Mills, MD (died in office) |
| 1922 G.B. Eusterman |
| 1921 A.A. Jones |
| 1920 Joseph Sailer |
| 1919 T.R. Brown |
| 1918 W.A. Bastedo |
| 1917 J.A. Lichty |
| 1916 W.G. Morgan |
| 1915 C.G. Stockton |
| 1914 W.C. Bloodgood |
| 1913 J. Kaufmann |
| 1912 J. Kaufmann |
| 1911 W.B. Cannon |
| 1910 W.B. Cannon |
| 1909 J. Friedenwald |
| 1908 J. Friedenwald |
| 1907 J.P. Sawyer |
| 1906 H.W. Bettman |
| 1905 H.W. Bettman |
| 1904 S.J. Meltzer |
| 1903 S.J. Meltzer |
| 1902 J.C. Hemmeter |
| 1901 J.C. Hemmeter |
| 1900 Max Einhorn |
| 1899 Max Einhorn |
| 1898 D.D. Stewart |
| 1897 C.G. Stockton |
