Providing Noteworthy Speakers for Training in Your Communities
The goal of the ACG Edgar Achkar Visiting Professorship Program, which honors former ACG Institute Director, Edgar Achkar, MD, MACG, is to enable GI fellowship programs to have high-quality visiting professors to bolster the training program by providing lectures, small group discussions, panel discussions, and one-on-one visits with trainees and faculty. You choose the speaker, the Institute covers the travel costs and honorarium.
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 10, 2021
I enjoyed the opportunity to meet with the fellows who were very engaging and asked great questions related to IBD and career development. This is an outstanding opportunity to bring in a speaker from outside one’s institution allowing exchange of ideas, professional and career development.Dr. Laura E. Raffals
How It Works:
The purpose of these visits is to reach a diverse number of programs while aiming to maximize the impact of each visit by targeting GI training programs, which could also leverage an additional community event with local ACG member physicians, sometimes in conjunction with a local gut club. The programs offer expertise for a specific area of need at each institution.
Since the program’s inception in 2014, the Institute has supported more than 78 visits in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada.
New! ACG Visiting Scholar in Equity, Diversity, and Ethical Care
The Visiting Scholar in Equity, Diversity, and Ethical Care will provide lectures to create awareness around the issues and challenges related to delivering equitable care, respecting diversity, and instilling ethical decision making. A section of the EAVP application will allow institutions to include a focus on equity, diversity, and/or ethical care. These topics can be offered as stand alone lectures or in conjunction with a disease state topic driven visit (i.e. Endoscopic Considerations in Underserved Populations). Learn more about the application process here: gi.org/acg-institute/acg-visiting-scholar
Program Details
Evaluation Criteria
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Previous Visit Topics
Past Speakers
Locations of Previous EAVP Visits
2021 ACG Edgar Achkar
Visiting Professorships
Carol A. Burke, MD, FACG
Atrium Health
March 11
Mohamed O. Othman, MD
University of Miami
March 24
Satish Rao, MD, PhD, FACG
University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester
April 27-28
Douglas Rex, MD, MACP, MACG
Westchester Medical Center
May 19
Brian E. Lacy, MD, PhD, FACG
Allegheny General Hospital
May 27-28
Corey Siegel, MD, MS
William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
June 2 and July 20
John E. Pandolfino, MD, MSCI, FACG
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
August 19-20
Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG
VA Caribbean Healthcare System
September 22
Edward V. Loftus, Jr., MD, FACG
Brooke Army Medical Center
October 14
Sunanda V. Kane, MD, MSPH, FACG
St. Luke’s University Hospital
November 2
Millie D. Long MD, MPH
UT Southwestern
November 10
Christina Ha, MD
University of New Mexico
Postponed until later in 2021