The American Gastroenterological Association has named its inaugural class of the Future Leaders Program.
The class members include:
• Rotonya M. Carr, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvaniain Philadelphia
• Neelendu Dey, MD, instructor of medicine, division of gastroenterology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Nelson Garcia, Jr., MD, associate gastroenterologist, GastroHealth in Miami
• Avlin B. Imaeda, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, section of digestive diseases, Yale University School of Medicine in Guilford, Conn.
• Gilaad G. Kaplan, MD, assistant professor, University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada
• Sonia S. Kupfer, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
• Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, instructor in clinical medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital
• David J. Levinthal, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Kara Gross Margolis, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics, Columbia University in New York
• Silvio de Melo, Jr., MD, director of endoscopy; program director GI fellowship, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville
• Walter G. Park, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Stanford University Medical Center in Los Altos, Calif.
• Andrew D. Rhim, MD, assistant professor, internal medicine, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
• Jatin Roper, MD, gastroenterologist; assistant professor, Tufts Medical Center in Boston
• Brijen J. Shah, MD, assistant professor of medicine, gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York
• Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, associate professor, department of medicine, gastroenterology division, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
• Savita Srivastava, MD, gastroenterologist, University of Virginia Physician's Group in Culpeper
• Tram T. Tran, MD, medical director, liver transplantation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
• Elizabeth C Verna, MD, MS, associate program director, New York Presbyterian Hospital
The Future Leaders Program is designed to identify GI physicians who will lead their specialty and provide a pathway for career development.