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
Invited National & International Speakers
/ 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)
/ Nikhil Kumta, MD, MS
Chief of Endoscopy NYU Grossman School of Medicine – New York City, NY
/ Pichamol Jirapinyo, MD, MPH
Director of Bariatric Endoscopy Fellowship Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA
/ Jessica Widmer, DO
Chief Division of Gastroenterology, NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island, NY
/ Prabhleen Chahal, MD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF
Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, University of Texas Health – San Antonio, TX
/ Allison Schulman, MD, MPH, FASGE
Chief of Endoscopy, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
/ Diogo Turiani Hourneaux De Moura, MD, MSc
Director Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
/ Harshit Khara, MD, FACG, FASGE
Director of Endoscopy, Geisinger Medical Center – Danville, PA
/ Stuart Amateau, MD, PhD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF
Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN
/ Mohammad Bilal, MD
Director of Third Space Endoscopy and Bariatric Endoscopy, University of Colorado – Aurora, CO
/ Amol Bapaye, MD, MSGEI, FISG, FASGE, FJGES
Hands-on Course Director
/ Matthew “Skip” Krafft, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology
WVU Faculty
/ Brian Boone, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology and Surgery
/ Robert Grammer, MD
Division Chief, Interventional Radiology
/ Tariq Hammad, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology
/ Asad Pervez, MD
Director of Endoscopy, Division of Gastroenterology
/ Lawrence Tabone, MD
Chief of Division of General Surgery, Director of Bariatric Surgery
/ Zain Sobani, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology
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