Meet Our Awardees

AGA-R. ROBERT & SALLY FUNDERBURG RESEARCH AWARD IN GASTRIC CANCER

Bryson W. Katona, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia

AGA-CAROLINE CRAIG AUGUSTYN & DAMIAN AUGUSTYN AWARD IN DIGESTIVE CANCER

Simon Schwörer, PhD, University of Chicago

AGA-BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB FELLOWSHIP-TO-FACULTY TRANSITION AWARD 

Siyan Cao, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

Amit Ringel, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

AGA PILOT RESEARCH AWARD IN DIGESTIVE DISEASE HEALTH DISPARITIES

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco 

AGA PILOT RESEARCH AWARD IN HEALTH DISPARITIES (Funded by Janssen Biotech, Inc.)

Enrique Soto Pérez de Celis, MD, PhD, MS, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán 

AGA PILOT RESEARCH AWARD  

Diana L. Snyder, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 

Michael Li, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco 

Patricia Bloom, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

Edward Barnes, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 

AGA-AMGEN PILOT RESEARCH AWARD IN DIGESTIVE DISEASE HEALTH DISPARITIES  

Laura Targownik, MD, MSHS, University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON 

AGA-AMAN ARMAAN AHMED FAMILY SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD

Gwyneth Garramone, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 

Ella McLaren, University of California, San Diego 

Nathan Moy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 

Hussein Elfayoumy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 

Isabelle Garcia-Fischer, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 

Lidia Appell, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 

Katherine Burkman, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 

Alexa Boylan, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia 

AGA-DR. HARVEY YOUNG EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’S YOUNG GUTS SCHOLAR PROGRAM  

Lucy Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Cambridge 

Andrew Tran, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 

Sohaib Hassan, Rutgers University – Verzi Lab, New Brunswick, New Jersey 

Varun Ponnusamy, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 

Daniella Montalvo, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 

Sara Chough, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York 

FELLOW ABSTRACT AWARDS  

David Flores Marin, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 

Jesse Platt, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 

Devika Gandhi, MD, Loma Linda University, California 

Amanda Krause, MD, University of California, San Diego 

Cynthia Tsay, MD, Mphil, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 

Suha Abushamma, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 

Md Obaidul Islam, PhD, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Floria 

Sakteesh Gurunathan, MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York 

Aaron Yeoh, MD, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, California 

Yang Xiao, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 

Jacques Gonzales, PhD, MS, Michigan State University, East Lansing 

Kai Wang, MD, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Hoyeol Kim, PhD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 

Babajide Ojo, PhD, MS, Stanford University, California 

AGA FELLOW ABSTRACT OF THE YEAR AWARD  

Stefania Tocci, PhD, MS, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

STUDENT ABSTRACT AWARDS  

Pritha Chatterjee, MS, University of California, Riverside 

Ela Contreras Panta, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 

Mihir Shah, MD, MBBS, John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois 

Yuhan Fu, DO, Metrohealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 

Raissa Nana Sede Mbakop, MD, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, Georgia 

Eleazar Montalvan-Sanchez, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington 

Sarang Gupta, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario 

Daniel Kim, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Hannah Hrncir, Emory University, Decatur, Georgia 

Zarwa Saqib, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario 

AGA-RADHIKA SRINIVASAN STUDENT ABSTRACT PRIZE

Ying Zhu, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

Lizeth Cifuentes, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 

Sharvani Dhandibhotla, MBBS, MS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 

Lauren Lynch, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 

AGA STUDENT ABSTRACT OF THE YEAR AWARD  

Gabrielle Waclawik, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin, Madison 

AGA ABSTRACT AWARD FOR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH   

Soyoun Min, PhD, Lerner Research Institute (fellow), Cleveland, Ohio 

Xiaobei Zhang, PhD , David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (fellow) 

Matthew Zhao, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (student) 

Hannah Fiske, MD, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital (student), Providence 

AGA-APFED ABSTRACT AWARD IN EOSINOPHILIC GI DISEASES  

Matthew Buendia, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee 

Alexandra L. Strauss, MD, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia 

Mira Yang, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 

AGA-MOTI L. & KAMLA RUSTGI INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AWARD  

Aviv Pudipeddi, MBBS, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia 

Dianqin Sun, MBBS, Mmed, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands