DDSEP 10 Chapter Author Biographies
1. Esophageal Disorders
Biography, Benson T. Massey, MD, FACP
“Quality patient care requires careful listening to the patient’s own story of their problem,” said Benson T. Massey, MD, FACP, “so as to understand the concerns and goals for care from the patient’s perspective. For care to be effective, the patient must remain an active partner – within the entire health care team. The best quality care requires going the extra mile to obtain the best possible understanding of the patient’s condition. But one has to be honest and say “these things I don’t know” when the current limits of medical knowledge have been reached. My practice of medicine is dedicated to pushing back those limits.” Dr. Massey finished his Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in 1990, his Residency at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1986, and his Doctor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1983.
Reza Shaker, MD
Reza Shaker, MD, completed his Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1988. Dr. Shaker finished a Residency in Internal Medicine at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in 1985 and finished a Residency in Surgery at The London Hospital in 1982. Dr. Shaker did his Doctor of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1975.
C. Prakash Gyawali, MD, AGAF
2. Acid Diseases of the Stomach
Biography, Steven F. Moss, MD, AGAF
Steven F. Moss, MD, AGAF, is a UK-trained physician-scientist whose research focuses on the role of H. pylori infection in gastric cancer. He is a clinical gastroenterologist at Rhode Island Hospital and Providence VA Medical Center and is Director of the Brown Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program.
3. Pancreatic Physiology and Disease
Biography, Vivek Kaul, MD
Vivek Kaul, MD, is the Segal-Watson Professor of Medicine & Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His clinical, research and medical education efforts are focused in Therapeutic Endoscopy, Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound, advanced ERCP, esophageal endotherapy for Barrett’s & Hepato-pancreatico-biliary disease. Dr. Kaul has specific expertise in complex interventional endoscopy, especially in the patient with GI-cancer. He co-directs the Developmental Endoscopy lab at URMC which is dedicated to education, training and innovation in endoscopy.
Biography, Santhi Swaroop Vege, MD, AGAF
Biography, Allison L. Yang, MD, MPH
4. Diseases of the Biliary Tract
Biography, Rahul Kuver, MD
Rahul Kuver, MD, is a board-certified gastroenterologist at the Digestive Health Center at UW Medical Center, director of the UW Gastroenterology Fellowship Program and a UW associate professor of Gastroenterology and Medicine. He aims to provide compassionate and thoughtful care to patients using state-of-the-art knowledge that is evidence-based. Dr. Kuver earned his MD at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include biliary epithelial cell biology. This includes studies on cellular and molecular processes involved in cholesterol transport, mucin secretion and carcinogenesis. This basic science work contributes to our understanding of a diverse array of disorders affecting the biliary system, such as gallstone disease, bile duct cancers and cystic fibrosis.
Biography, Lisa Gangarosa, MD, AGAF
Biography, Andrew Y. Wang, MD, AGAF
5. Viral Hepatitis
Biography, Christina C. Lindenmeyer, MD
Biography,Vinay Sundaram MD, MSc
6. Metabolic, Hereditary, Inflammatory, and Vascular Diseases of the Liver
Biography, Karin Andersson, MD
Karin Andersson, MD, MPH, is a hepatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Andersson graduated from the Yale University School of Medicine in 2000.
Carl L Berg, MD
“I have always held that in medicine, lifelong learning is critical to success,” says Carl L Berg, MD, a hepatologist with more than 30 years of experience, editor of DDSEP 9, and reviewer of Metabolic, Hereditary, Inflammatory, and Vascular Diseases of the Liver chapter of DDSEP 10. “When providing patient care, I strive to partner with patients and their families to obtain optimal clinical outcomes for my patients while using my continuing education as the foundation for our decision making.” Dr. Berg’s practice specializes in the care of patients with advanced liver disease, and those in need of transplantation. He is currently a tenured Professor of Medicine at Duke University and Medical Director of Abdominal Transplantation, overseeing not only the liver transplant program, but also the kidney, small bowel, pancreas, and vascular composite allograft programs. He is a graduate of Williams College, Washington University School Of Medicine and completed his fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
7. Cirrhosis and Liver Transplantation
Biography, Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD, is chief of digestive diseases for the VA-CT Healthcare System and director of the Clinical and Translational Core of the Yale Liver Center at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Garcia-Tsao has completed many clinical studies that have led to improving the management of patients with complications of cirrhosis and is currently interested in issues regarding the progression (or regression) of cirrhosis. “Patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension have inspired my clinical practice and my research,” said Dr. Garcia-Tsao. “Cirrhosis is the end-stage of any chronic liver disease, and with advances in science, we have different measures to better treat the complications of cirrhosis. We are currently working at measures to prevent these complications from even occurring or to induce cirrhosis regression.”
Biography, Carl L Berg, MD
Carl L. Berg, MD, is the editor of DDSEP 9, and reviewer of Cirrhosis and Liver Transplantation chapter of DDSEP 10. Dr. Berg is currently a professor of medicine at Duke University and medical director of Abdominal Transplantation, overseeing the liver transplant, kidney, small bowel, pancreas, and vascular composite allograft programs.
8. GI Diseases in Pregnancy
Biography, Reena Chokshi, MD
Reena V. Chokshi, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Gastrointestinal Motility at Baylor College of Medicine. She specializes in gastrointestinal motility disorders and women’s GI health. Dr. Chokshi received her MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and her fellowship in gastroenterology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Biography, Carla Brady, MD, MHS
Carla W. Brady, MD, MHS, is an associate professor within the Division of Gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center. She is a transplant hepatologist who also has a focus on the management of complex liver disease and liver transplant-related medical care in women. Dr. Brady has a particular clinical and academic focus on the management of liver disease in pregnancy and liver transplant-related care in pregnant women. She earned her bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Virginia and completed her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She also earned a Master of Clinical Research degree from Duke University School of Medicine.
Biography, Bincy P. Abraham, MD, AGAF
Biography, Joseph Ahn, MD, AGAF
9. Diarrhea and Constipation
Biography, Lawrence Schiller, MD
Lawrence Schiller, MD, is a clinical professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and member of the board of directors at the Digestive Health Associates of Texas in Dallas. He is also the program director of the gastroenterology fellowship; a member of the Committee on Medical Education; and chairman of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Protection at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Dr. Schiller is the past president of the American College of Gastroenterology and a member of American Federation for Clinical Research, American Gastroenterological Association and American Motility Society. He was a co-author of two evidence-based systematic reviews developed by the ACG Institute. Dr. Schiller’s clinical interests include colon cancer screening, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease and motility disorders. He was honored with the David L. Sun Lectureship at the American College of Gastroenterology postgraduate course in 2001. He has also won the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy’s Marcel Patterson-Robert Nelson Award in 2007. Dr. Schiller completed his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed his residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. He then completed his gastroenterology fellowship training at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
10. Gastrointestinal Motility
Biography, Richard K. Wood, Jr., MD
Richard Wood Jr., MD is a gastroenterologist at Duke University School of Medicine. He graduated from Mount Sinai School Of Medicine in 2002 before completing a residency in Internal Medicine at Boston University Medical Center in 2006. He then completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.
Biography, Satish SC Rao, MD, PhD, AGAF
11. Gastrointestinal Infections of the Small Intestine and Colon
Biography, Amy Elizabeth Barto, MD
Amy Barto, MD is a gastroenterology specialist in Burlington, MA. At Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, she completed a Fellowship in Gastroenterology in 2006 and an Internal Medicine Internship and Residency in 2003.She graduated from University Of Connecticut Medical School in 2000.
Biography, Christina Surawicz, MD
Christina Surawicz, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and has practiced general GI at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle since 1981. She served as chief of GI at Harborview Medical Center, the county hospital, for 20 years, until 2013. Dr. Surawicz is a leader in treating patients with recurrent C. difficile infection with fecal microbiota transplant. She is a past president of the American College of Gastroenterology, and is widely recognized as a clinician, researcher, educator and administrator, and as a role model and mentor for medical students, residents and faculty across the country.
12. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Biography, Christen K. Dilly, MD, MEHP, AGAF
Christen K. Dilly, MD, MEHP, AGAF, is the director of the Endoscopy and director of the Medical Weight Loss programs at the Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Dilly is also an assistant dean for Graduate Medical Education and director of the Clinician Educator Training Pathway at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Biography, Daniel Wild, MD, AGAF
Daniel Wild, MD, AGAF, is an associate clinical chief and the director of small bowel endoscopy in the Division of Gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Wild’s clinical focus is GI bleeding, video capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy.
13. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Biography, Arthur J. DeCross, MD, AGAF
Arthur J. DeCross, MD, is director of adult GI within the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). Dr. DeCross, who has been a clinical educator at URMC since 1997 and former director of its GI fellowship training program for more than a decade, has extensive experience in applied education, training, and assessment. Dr. DeCross has also served as editor-in-chief for DDSEP 7, associate editor of DDSEP 6, chair of the AGA Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Subcommittee and is a new co-chair of the AGA Education and Training Committee.
14. Gastrointestinal Cancers
Biography, Sonia S. Kupfer, MD, AGAF
15. Nutrition, Obesity and Eating Disorders
Biography, Lena B. Palmer, MD, MSCR
Lena B. Palmer MD, MSCR, is with the Southwest Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System. In addition to gastroenterology and nutrition expertise, Dr. Palmer has advanced training in epidemiology, health services research, and quality improvement. She has volunteered extensively with the AGA, attending advocacy days and serving on the Women’s Committee and Trainee and Young GI Committee. Her clinical interests include parenteral and enteral nutrition, malabsorption, medical nutrition therapy, nutrition complications of GI diseases, celiac disease, bacterial overgrowth syndromes, and diarrheal diseases.
Biography, Michael Sprang, MD
Michael Sprang, MD, is a gastroenterology specialist in Maywood, IL. Dr. Sprang graduated from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 2005 and completed a residency at McGaw Medical Center. He practices at Loyola University Medical Center and Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, and is affiliated with NorthShore University Health Systems, Memorial Medical Center, and OSF St Joseph Medical Center.
Biography, Jessica Bartfield, MD
Jessica Bartfield, MD, is an obesity medicine specialist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina. She completed a fellowship for Obesity medicine and Clinical nutrition at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in 2010, and an internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in 2008. She graduated from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in 2005. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists.
Biography, Shelby Sullivan, MD
16. Issues in Pediatric Gastroenterology
Biography, Rishi Gupta, MD
17. Small Bowel
Biography, Rupa Mukherjee, MD
Rupa Mukherjee, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She graduated Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2004, did an internship and residency at Yale – New Haven Medical Center, and fellowships at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Beth Israel.
Biography, Daniel Leffler, MD, MS
Daniel Leffler, MD, MS is the Director of Clinical Research at the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Prior to medical school he completed a Master’s in Nutrition at Columbia University. Dr. Leffler divides his time between clinical care and clinical and translational research in celiac disease. Projects to date have involved the study of factors which influence dietary adherence, non-responsive celiac disease, clinical trial design, immunologic changes which occur with celiac disease activation and the creation of clinical algorithms for diagnosis and treatment of celiac disease. He lectures widely and has assisted in the development of multiple continuing medical education resources on celiac disease. Dr. Leffler and celiac dietician Melinda Dennis are co-authors of Real Life with Celiac Disease. Troubleshooting and Thriving Gluten Free, published by the AGA.
Biography, Daniel Wild, MD, AGAF
Daniel Wild, MD, AGAF, is an associate clinical chief and the director of small bowel endoscopy in the Division of Gastroenterology at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Wild’s clinical focus is GI bleeding, video capsule endoscopy and double balloon enteroscopy. Dr. Wild is a reviewer of the Small Bowel chapter of DDSEP 10.
