IFFGD's Junior Academicians Program
Program Goal
IFFGD’s Junior Academicians program was created to engage junior clinicians and researchers in order to increase their interest in functional GI and motility disorders. We hope that this will help to invigorate the field, raise awareness of IFFGD resources, and develop thought leaders for the future.
2024 IFFGD Junior Academicians
Dilpesh Agarwal
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Nitin Ahuja
- University of Pennsylvania
- IFFGD 2020 Virtual Advocacy Event: “How to Prepare for Seeing Your Doctor” Presentation
- IBS Education Update Committee
Cara Axelrod
- Nova Southeastern University
Elizabeth Barba Orozco
- Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
- 5 Minutes in GI: Abdomino-phrenic Dyssynergia
Kenneth Barshop
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Justin Brandler
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
- “5 Minutes in GI episode”: Ways that Patients can Improve the Control of their Bowel
- IFFGD 2020 Michigan Norton Education Series, “Living Your BEST IBS Life: Practical Tools to Beat the Battle with your Bowels” Presentation
Sophia Brigstocke
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Helen Burton
- Massachusetts General Hospital
David Cangemi
- Mayo Clinic: Jacksonville, Florida
Soojong Hong Chae
- University of South Florida
Walter Chan
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- IBS Education Update Committee
Bianca Chang
- Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles
- IFFGD Microbiome Fact Sheet Project
Victor Chedid
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Austin Chiang
- Thomas Jefferson University
- IFFGD 2021 Virtual Advocacy Event: “Best Practices for Finding a Facebook Support Group” Presentation
Bruno Chumpitazi
- Duke Health
- Pediatric Education Update Committee
Bryan Curtin
- Mercy Medical Center
Ann Davis
- University of Kansas School of Medicine
Saam Dilmaghani
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- 5 Minutes in GI: Diet for Gastroparesis
- 5 Minutes in GI: Common GI Disorders Associated with the Disruption of GI Motility
Francis Edeani
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Rosita Frazier
- Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale/Phoenix, Arizona
Jeanetta Frye
- University of Virginia Health System
- You and Constipation
Amanda Glinky
- Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
Luis Alcalá González
- Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- 5 Minutes in GI: What Causes Gas in the Intestines?
Kimberly Harer
- Michigan Medicine
- IFFGD 2020 Michigan North Education Series: Diet, Nutrition and Digestive Health “Constipation: Symptoms, evaluation, causes, and treatment” Presentation
- IBS Education Update Committee
John Hollier
- Baylor College of Medicine
Kayla Hopkins
- Atrium Health
Lisa Jones
- University of Wisconsin
Gorav Kalra
- University of Seattle
Kendra Kamp
- University of Washington
Jacqueline Khalil
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Case Western Reserve University/ Metro Health Medical Center
Michael Kingsley
- VA and U Pitt
David Kunkel
- University of California, San Diego
- IBS Education Update Committee
Muriel Larauche
- University of California, Los Angeles
- IFFGD Research Awards Committee
Allen Lee
- Michigan Medicine
- University of California, Los Angeles
Joy Liu
- McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University
- IFFGD “5 Minutes in GI” Series- Diet and Diverticulitis
Benjamin Lui
- Case Western Reserve/ MetroHealth
- 5 Minutes in GI: Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Part 1 and 2
Alejandro Llanos-Chea
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- 5 Minutes in GI: What are the Most Common Tests to Determine Motility of the GI Tract?
- IFFGD ” Clostridiodes Difficile Infection” Factsheet
Ling Mei
- Clement J Zablocki VA Medical Ctr, Froedtert Hospital
Stacy Menees
- University of Michigan
- IBS Education Update Committee
Mulugeta Million
- University of California, Los Angeles
Sarvee Moosavi
- University of British Columbia
Johanna C. Iturrino Moreda
- Harvard Medical School
Judy Nee
- Harvard Medical School
- 2022 Research Grant Winner
Leila Neshatian
- Stanford
- IBS Education Update Committee
- Consultant: CoRDS Registry- Anal Fistulas
Borko Nojkov
- Michigan Medicine
- IFFGDs 2025 Research Grant Winner
Colleen Parker
- University Health Network, University of Toronto
Dan Patel
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Co-Chair and Author: GERD Reporter’s Guide
- Consultant: CoRDS Registry- Achalasia
Alice Jiang Van Pelt
- Rush University Medical School
Mythili Pathipati
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael Potter
- John Hunter Hospital
Erin Ruether
- Pediatric Psychologist Ochsner Children’s Health Center
Neha Santucci
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
- IFFGD Research on the Road
- Pediatric Update Committee
Patrick Sanvanson
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Eric Shah
- Michigan Medicine
- IBS Education Update Committee
- IFFGD’s 2022 Advocacy Event: “Advocating for Yourself in the Doctor’s Office”
Amol Sharma
- Medical University of South Carolina
- IFFGD 2020 Virtual Advocacy Event, “Leveraging Live Stream: Getting the Most from a GI Telehealth Appointment” Presentation
- IBS Education Update Committee Co-Chair
Daruish Shahsavari
- Emory Healthcare
- 5 Minutes in GI: LPR vs. GERD
- 5 Minutes in GI: Asthma and GERD
LeAnne Sherwin
- The University of Missouri
Prashant Singh
- Michigan Medicine
- 2024 IFFGD Research Grant Winner
Lalitha Sitaraman
- University of Chicago
Kyle Staller
- Harvard Medical School
- IFFGD 2020 Research Award Clinical Science Investigator
- IBS Education Update Committee
Andrew Su
- University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Surjanhata
- Harvard Medical School
Elyse Thakur
- Atrium Health
Sanskriti Varma
- Harvard Medical School
Dipesh Vasant
- Manchester University
Chris Velez
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Priya Vijayvargiya
- Erlanger Gastroenterology
- IFFGD “Role of Bile Acid Diarrhea in Chronic Functional Diarrhea” factsheet
Thomas Wallach
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn NY
- Pediatric Education Update Committee
Xiao Jing Wang
- Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
- 5 Minutes in GI:Risk Factors of GERD
- 5 Minutes in GI: Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Shamaila Waseem
- Indiana University
Jennifer Wellington
- Atrium Health
Ting Zheng
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN