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BOSTON – Both the soon-to-be chair and vice chair of the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology, which sponsors the AGA Tech Summit, are looking forward to building upon the successes of this year’s meeting.
“Giving folks a road map and seeing physicians come to the meeting to network and meet the right people, that is the really satisfying part for me,” V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, the incoming chair of the committee, said in an interview.
“I was honored to be asked to take over this position,” he said. “I have been contemplating . . .where we are and where we’ve been and where we need to go next.”
Dr. Muthusamy, director of interventional endoscopy and general GI endoscopy and current professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, is keenly interested in the intersection of technical innovation and gastroenterology, especially concerning endoscopic technology.
The committee’s incoming vice chair, Srinadh Komanduri, MD, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, takes a deep interest in innovative medical technologies that are applicable to gastroenterology. “A lot of what I’m doing at Northwestern is cutting-edge techniques and looking for new innovation, especially for early cancers in the GI tract,” Dr. Komanduri said.
Dr. Muthusamy and Dr. Komanduri will assume their new roles June 1 when Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF, of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, retires from his position as executive chairman of the committee, shortly after the close of this year’s AGA Tech Summit. “It’s been an honor and humbling to have been entrusted with running the CGIT over the past term; we solidified a number of critical relationships and added new programs. I am thrilled that Raman and Sri will be taking the reins as the plans that they have will build on the foundation and take the CGIT to a new level.”
The meeting, according to the incoming chairs, offers a great opportunity for physician-innovators to share their interests and ideas.
“The Tech Summit is unlike any other meeting I’ve gone to. It is a time to see the business of science and the gaps in technology as well as the technicalities of business that are not part of the standard medical training,” said Dr. Muthusamy, who moderated this year’s “Shark Tank” session, considered the highlight event of the meeting during which entrepreneurs present their ideas to a panel of doctors and business leaders to gain a diverse range of insight on how to take their projects to the next level.
Learn more about the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology at www.gastro.org/CGIT.
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On Twitter @EAZTweets
BOSTON – Both the soon-to-be chair and vice chair of the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology, which sponsors the AGA Tech Summit, are looking forward to building upon the successes of this year’s meeting.
“Giving folks a road map and seeing physicians come to the meeting to network and meet the right people, that is the really satisfying part for me,” V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, the incoming chair of the committee, said in an interview.
“I was honored to be asked to take over this position,” he said. “I have been contemplating . . .where we are and where we’ve been and where we need to go next.”
Dr. Muthusamy, director of interventional endoscopy and general GI endoscopy and current professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, is keenly interested in the intersection of technical innovation and gastroenterology, especially concerning endoscopic technology.
The committee’s incoming vice chair, Srinadh Komanduri, MD, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, takes a deep interest in innovative medical technologies that are applicable to gastroenterology. “A lot of what I’m doing at Northwestern is cutting-edge techniques and looking for new innovation, especially for early cancers in the GI tract,” Dr. Komanduri said.
Dr. Muthusamy and Dr. Komanduri will assume their new roles June 1 when Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF, of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, retires from his position as executive chairman of the committee, shortly after the close of this year’s AGA Tech Summit. “It’s been an honor and humbling to have been entrusted with running the CGIT over the past term; we solidified a number of critical relationships and added new programs. I am thrilled that Raman and Sri will be taking the reins as the plans that they have will build on the foundation and take the CGIT to a new level.”
The meeting, according to the incoming chairs, offers a great opportunity for physician-innovators to share their interests and ideas.
“The Tech Summit is unlike any other meeting I’ve gone to. It is a time to see the business of science and the gaps in technology as well as the technicalities of business that are not part of the standard medical training,” said Dr. Muthusamy, who moderated this year’s “Shark Tank” session, considered the highlight event of the meeting during which entrepreneurs present their ideas to a panel of doctors and business leaders to gain a diverse range of insight on how to take their projects to the next level.
Learn more about the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology at www.gastro.org/CGIT.
[email protected]
On Twitter @EAZTweets
BOSTON – Both the soon-to-be chair and vice chair of the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology, which sponsors the AGA Tech Summit, are looking forward to building upon the successes of this year’s meeting.
“Giving folks a road map and seeing physicians come to the meeting to network and meet the right people, that is the really satisfying part for me,” V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, the incoming chair of the committee, said in an interview.
“I was honored to be asked to take over this position,” he said. “I have been contemplating . . .where we are and where we’ve been and where we need to go next.”
Dr. Muthusamy, director of interventional endoscopy and general GI endoscopy and current professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, is keenly interested in the intersection of technical innovation and gastroenterology, especially concerning endoscopic technology.
The committee’s incoming vice chair, Srinadh Komanduri, MD, of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, takes a deep interest in innovative medical technologies that are applicable to gastroenterology. “A lot of what I’m doing at Northwestern is cutting-edge techniques and looking for new innovation, especially for early cancers in the GI tract,” Dr. Komanduri said.
Dr. Muthusamy and Dr. Komanduri will assume their new roles June 1 when Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF, of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, retires from his position as executive chairman of the committee, shortly after the close of this year’s AGA Tech Summit. “It’s been an honor and humbling to have been entrusted with running the CGIT over the past term; we solidified a number of critical relationships and added new programs. I am thrilled that Raman and Sri will be taking the reins as the plans that they have will build on the foundation and take the CGIT to a new level.”
The meeting, according to the incoming chairs, offers a great opportunity for physician-innovators to share their interests and ideas.
“The Tech Summit is unlike any other meeting I’ve gone to. It is a time to see the business of science and the gaps in technology as well as the technicalities of business that are not part of the standard medical training,” said Dr. Muthusamy, who moderated this year’s “Shark Tank” session, considered the highlight event of the meeting during which entrepreneurs present their ideas to a panel of doctors and business leaders to gain a diverse range of insight on how to take their projects to the next level.
Learn more about the AGA Center for GI Innovation and Technology at www.gastro.org/CGIT.
[email protected]
On Twitter @EAZTweets