Announcing Our 2024 AGA Council Chair and Section Leaders

Meet Our New Chair

Douglas J. Robertson, MD, MPH, AGAFAGA Institute Council Chair

VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire

Dr. Robertson will serve as council chair for 3 years (May 2024-May 2027; DDW 2025, 2026 and 2027).

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Dr. Douglas J. Robertson

Section Leadership

We are pleased to announce the results of the elections held recently by the AGA Institute Council, the driving force behind AGA’s programming at Digestive Disease Week (DDW). We welcome 8 members into their new roles as section vice chairs, joining the existing 17 Council members. Each new vice chair will serve a 2-year term that began immediately following this year’s DDW meeting and extends through DDW 2026. Following their term as vice chair, they will move into the role of section chair for an additional 2 years through DDW 2028.

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The 2024 AGA Council chair and section leaders include (L to R, starting top left) Douglas J. Robertson, Uma Sundaram, Linda Anh Nguyen, Vivek Kaul, Florian Rieder, Don Rockey, Jessica Allegretti, Berkeley M. Limketkai, and Kelli L. VanDussen.

We are also pleased to announce the members joining nominating committees during the 2026 nomination/election cycle. The chairs of the nominating committee will be the immediate past section chairs, whom we also recognize and thank for their service and dedication to the section and the council.

Basic & Clinical Intestinal Disorders (BCID)

Uma Sundaram, MDVice chair

Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia

Nominating committee members

• Colleen Renee Kelly, MD, AGAF, Chair
• Amy C. Engevik, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
• Ravinder Gill, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Madhusudan Grover, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Lisa L. Strate, MD, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle

Clinical Practice (CP)

Linda Anh Nguyen, MDVice Chair

Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine

Nominating committee members

• Gary W. Falk, MD, MS, AGAF, Chair
• Megan Adams, MD, JD, MSc, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Endoscopy Unit
• Mohammad Bilal, MD, Minneapolis VA Health Care System
• Carolyn Newberry, MD, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York
• Adam Weizman, MD, MSc, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Endoscopy, Technology & Imaging (ETI)

Vivek Kaul, MD, AGAFVice Chair

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center

Nominating committee members

• Irving Waxman, MD, Chair
• Sushovan Guha, MD, PhD, University of Texas at Houston
• Pichamol Jirapinyo, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
• Vladimir Kushnir, MD, Washington University St. Louis Barnes–Jewish West County Hospital
• Andrew C. Storm, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota