Course
Course
Faculty
Faculty
Course Directors
/ Shyam Thakkar, MD, FASGE
Professor of Medicine & Director of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
/ Shailendra Singh, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Director of Bariatric Endoscopy
Hands-On Workshop Director
/ Matthew “Skip” Krafft, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Program Director of WVU Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship
International Faculty
/ Nageshwar Reddy, MD, DM, D.Sc, FAMS, FRCP, FASGE, FACG, MWGO, FAGA, FJGES
Chairman of Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and AIG Hospitals – Hyderabad, India
/ Anand Sahai, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Medical Director, Clinique 1037 Montreal – Montreal, Quebec
National Faculty
/ Shyam S. Varadarajulu, MD
President Digestive Health Institute, Orlando Health – Orlando, FL
/ Peter Draganov, MD, FASGE
Director of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, University of Florida – Gainesville, FL
/ Vivek Kumbhari, MB, ChB, PhD
Chair Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Mayo Clinic – Jacksonville, FL
/ Ji Young Bang, MD
Director of Clinical Research Digestive Health Institute Orlando Health – Orlando, FL
/ Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc, FASGE, FACG, AGAF
Director of Endoscopy Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
/ Neil Sharma, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF
Chief Operating Officer, Foundation for Interventional and Therapeutic Endoscopy (FITE)
/ Pichamol Jirapinyo, MD, MPH
Director of Bariatric Endoscopy Fellowship Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA
/ Carl Schmidt, MD
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, West Virginia University
/ Mohammad Bilal, MD, FACP, FACG, FASGE
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – Aurora, CO
/ Christopher G. Chapman, MD, FASGE
Interventional Gastroenterologist and Obesity Medicine Specialist, Rush Medical Group – Chicago, IL
/ Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS
Medical Director of Endoscopy, UCLA Health – Los Angeles, CA
/ Raj Shah, MD
Director, Pancreas and Biliary Endoscopy, University of Colorado – Aurora, CO
/ Shifa Umar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine – Houston, TX
/ David Loren, MD, FASGE
Chief of Gastroenterology, Temple Health System – Philadelphia, PA
/ Martin Freeman, MD
Associate Program Director, Advanced Pancreaticobiliary Endoscopy Fellowship, University of Minnesota Medical School – Minneapolis, MN
/ Girish Mishra, MD
Executive Director, Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist – Winston-Salem, NC
WVU Alumni Faculty
/ Moiz Ahmed, MD, MBBS
Advanced Endoscopist, Community Health Network – Indianapolis, IN
/ Yousaf Hadi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
/ Rohit Agrawal, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Loyola University – Chicago, IL
/ Monica Chowdhry, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
/ Vibhu Chittajallu, MD
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/ Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH