9 GI physicians receive AGA Annual Recognition Awards

The American Gastroenterological Association honored nine gastroenterologists with its Annual Recognition Awards at Digestive Disease Week in Washington, D.C.

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Here are the award winners.

Julius Friedenwald Medal
•    Robert Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

William Beaumont Prize
•    C. Richard Boland, MD, AGAF, Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas)

Distinguished Educator Awards
•    Patrick Kamath, MD, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
•    Charles Melbern Wilcox, MD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Distinguished Mentor Awards
•    Susan Henning, PhD, AGAF, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
•    M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

Distinguished Clinician Awards
•    Academic practice: William Chey, MD, AGAF, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
•    Private practice: Louis Y. Korman, MD, Metropolitan Gastroenterology Group (Washington, D.C.)

Research Service Award
•    Jay Hoofnagle, MD, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)

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