1. Hafiz Khan, MD, is serving as medical director of AdvantHealth Tampa’s (Fla.) Center for Interventional Endoscopy, the only interventional endoscopy center in the Tampa Bay region.
2. The American Gastroenterological Association elected Richard Peek, MD, as vice president in March. Dr. Peek is currently director of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to a March 7 news release. He will serve one year as vice president of AGA, followed by one year as president-elect before eventually being named president in 2027 to 2028.
3. Michael Dolinger, MD, was named to lead the pediatric inflammatory bowel disease program at New York City-based Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone. Dr. Dolinger is also an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics, division of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology, at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
4. Prabhleen Chahal, MD, became the first practitioner in Texas to be named a master endoscopist by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
5. Jeffrey Monash, MD, a bariatric surgeon at Tucson (Ariz.) Bariatric, was found liable for the death of a patient in a $3.5 million verdict.
