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
M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, AGAF
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
President-Elect
John M. Inadomi, MD, AGAF
University of Utah School of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Vice President
John M. Carethers, MD, AGAF
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Secretary/Treasurer
Lawrence S. Kim, MD, AGAF
South Denver Gastroenterology, P.C.
Littleton, Colorado
Past President
Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, MPH, AGAF
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
At-Large Councillor
Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
At-Large Councillor for Development and Growth
Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Basic Research Councillor
Nicholas O. Davidson, MD, DSc, AGAF
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Clinical Research Councillor
Lin Chang, MD, AGAF
University of California, Los Angeles
Practice Councillor
Peter S. Margolis, MD, AGAF
University Gastroenterology
Providence, Rhode Island
Practice Councillor
Michael L. Weinstein, MD, AGAF
Capital Digestive Care, LLC
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Education & Training Councillor
David A. Katzka, MD, AGAF
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
AGA Research Foundation Chair
Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
| 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 |
