Women's Leadership Conference

Empower your career and refine your skills with guidance from other GI women leaders. 

The application window has closed and the participants for the 2019 event have been chosen. The Women’s Leadership Conference is an invite-only event.  

Women’s Leadership Conference Roster

Early career

  • Ghadah Al Ismail, MD
  • Shazia Ali, MD
  • Elizabeth Blaney, MD
  • Blaire Burman, MD
  • Alexis Calloway, MD
  • Alejandra Castillo-Roth, MD
  • Joan Chen, MD
  • Suma Chennubhotla, MD
  • Reezwana Chowdhury, MD
  • Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, MD
  • Kathleen Corey, MD
  • Robin Dalal, MD
  • Amy Engevik, PhD
  • Melinda Engevik, PhD
  • Julia Ganz, PhD
  • Aparna Goel, MD
  • Alison Goldin, MD
  • Edith Ho, MD
  • Jennifer Horsley-Silva, MD
  • Jennifer Maratt, MD
  • Fazia Mir, MD
  • Michelle Nazareth, MD
  • Camilla Richmond, MD
  • Shailja Shah, MD
  • Richa Shukla, MD
  • Kelly Whelan, MD
  • Victoria Yung, MD

Experienced

  • Sarah Canavan, MD
  • Aline Charabaty Pishvaian, MD
  • Cuckoo Choudhary, MD
  • Lucinda Harris, MD, AGAF
  • Dominique Howard, MD
  • Mary Ann Huang, MD
  • Michelle Kim, MD, PhD, AGAF
  • Iona Monteiro, MD
  • Swati Pawa, MD, FASGE
  • Lesley Smith, MBA, MD
  • Laura Targownik, MD

Program schedule

Program Chairs

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Latha Alaparthi, MD, AGAF

Managing Partner
Gastroenterology Center of CT, PC

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Sharmila Anandasabapathy, MD, AGAF

Professor of Medicine; Director, Baylor Global Health; Vice President
Baylor College of Medicine