Past Conferences & Seminars
Below you will find information on previous NYSGE conferences and seminars.

Date January 17, 2007
Topic 2007 NYSGE Annual Dinner
Location Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel
Speaker(s) Grace Elta, MD (Paul Sherlock Distinguished Lecturer)

Date February 13, 2007
Topic 2007 Intracity Rounds/Fellow’s Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Organizers/Moderator* Hans Gerdes, MD, Brian Bosworth, MD, Ira Jacobson, MD*

Date March 28, 2007
Topic 2007 New Technologies Seminar
Location Lenox Hill Hospital
Speaker(s) Christopher Thompson, MD, Gregory Haber, MD, Jonathan Cohen, MD, Peter Stevens, MD

Date April 25, 2007
Topic 2007 Dr. David Falkenstein Fellows' Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Organizers Arnold Markowitz, MD, Mark Schattner, MD

Date June 6, 2007
Topic 2007 DDW WRAP-UP
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Speaker(s) Peter Stevens, MD, Franklin Kasmin, MD, Jonathan Cohen, MD, Ellen Scherl, MD, Charles Lightdale, MD, Anthony Starpoli, MD, Michelle Kim, MD

Date July 21, 2007
Topic 2007 20th Annual GI Fellows Summer Course
Location St. Lukes Medical Center
Director Jean Saleh, MD

Date September 11, 2007
Topic 2007 Advances in Endoscopic Imaging
Location NYU Medical Center
Speaker(s) Manabu Muto, MD, Christopher Thompson, MD, Mark Schattner, MD, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD
Moderator Jonathan Cohen, MD

Date September 20th 2007
Topic 2007 Office Based Surgery Bill: Understanding this Important Legislation and What It Means to You and Your Facility
Location Merrill Lynch
Speaker(s) Scott Tenner, MD; Scott Einiger, Esq; Mike Dye, MPH; Donald Moy, Esq; Ms. Wendy Brown, Rock Rockett, PhD

Date October 11th, 2007
Topic 2007 Office Based Endoscopy Legislation: What It Means to You and Your Facility
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Speaker(s) Scott Tenner, MD; Scott Einiger, Esq; Mike Dye, MPH; Donald Moy, Esq; Rock Rockett, PhD

Date October 24, 2007
Topic 2007 Intracity Rounds/Fellows' Night #2
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Organizers Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD, Michelle Kim, MD

Date November 15, 2007
Topic 2007 GI Billing, Coding and Compliance
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Speaker(s) Cecile Katzoff, MGA , CGCS (VP, AGA Consulting Services)
Organizers Alfred Roston, MD, Scott Tenner, MD

Date December 12-15th, 2007
Topic 2007 31st Annual New York Course
Location NY Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel
Course Directors Anthony Starpoli, MD; Peter Stevens, MD; David Greenwald, MD; Jonathan Cohen, MD

Date Janurary 22, 2008
Topic 2008 NYSGE Annual Dinner: Dysphagia, Hinderances and Hangups from UES to LES
Location NY Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel
Speaker(s) H. Worth Boyce, MD (Paul Sherlock Distinguished Lecturer)

Date January 29, 2008
Topic 2008 How to Form an Office-Based Surgical Facility: New Law, Economics, Liability
Location MSKCC, Rockefeller Research Lab Bldg
Speaker(s) Scott Einiger, Esq; Mike Dye, MPH; Don Moy, Esq; Scott Tenner, MD; Rock Rockett, CEO; Carolyn Kurtz, Esq

Date Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Topic 2008 NYSGE Fellows' Intracity Rounds
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Organizers / Moderator* Arnold Markowitz, MD; Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD; Robert Kurtz, MD*

Date Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Topic 2008 GI Bleed Seminar
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell, Uris Auditorium
Speaker(s) Maurice Cerulli, MD, Anthony Starpoli, MD, Gregory Haber, MD, Mazen Naga, MD

Date Thursday, April 17, 2008
Topic 2008 Pancreaticobiliary Diseases Seminar
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Rockefeller Research Laboratories Bldg, Rm 116
Speaker(s) Sammy Ho, MD, David Robbins, MD, Greg Haber, MD , Greg Ginsberg, MD

Date Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Topic 2008 Dr. David Falkenstein Fellows' Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center -Hoffman Auditorium
Organizers/Moderator* Mark Schattner, MD, Emmy Ludwig-Miller, MD, Charles Lightdale, MD*

Date June 3, 2008
Topic 2008 DDW WRAP-UP
Location Beth Israel Medical Center, Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (2nd Fl)
Moderator* Franklin Kasmin, MD*, Charles Lightdale, MD, Michelle Kim, MD, Ellen Scherl, MD, Anthony Starpoli, MD

Date June 25, 2008
Topic 2008 NYSGE/MSSY Office Based Endoscopy
Location Wachovia Bank
Organizer Scott Tenner, MD

Date July 12, 2008
Topic 2008 21st Annual GI Fellows Summer Course
Location St. Lukes Medical Center
Director Jean Saleh, MD

Date July 23, 2008
Topic 2008 NYSGE & National Pancreas Foundation - "A Gathering for the Pancreas"
Location Lenox Hill Hospital
Hosts/Speaker* Gregory Haber, MD, Scott Tenner, MD, Peter Banks, MD*

Date September 24, 2008
Topic 2008 Fellows' Night
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell, Weill Auditorium
Organizers / Moderator* Frank Gress, MD, Adam Goodman, MD, Maurice Cerulli, MD*

Date September 25, 2008
Topic 2008 - A Comprehensive Town Hall Meeting to Discuss: Office Based Surgery/ Facility Fee Issue - A Contractual Solution for Gastroenterologists
Location Wachovia's Westchester Rm, 3rd Fl
Moderator Scott Tenner, MD

Date October 21, 2008
Topic 2008 Novel Endoscopic Technologies Seminar
Location New York University Medical Center, Smilow Seminar Room
Organizer* / Speakers Jonathan Cohen, MD*, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD*, Christopher Gostout, MD, Ram Chuttani, MD, James Aisenberg, MD

Date November 19, 2008
Topic 2008 Small Bowel Seminar
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell, Weill Greenberg Center
Organizers*/Speakers Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD*, Carl Crawford, MD*, Greg Haber, MD, Neda Yagan, MD, Peter Green, MD

Date December 17-20, 2008
Topic 2008 32nd Annual New York Course
Location Marriott Marquis Hotel
Organizers Frank Gress, MD; Michelle Kim, MD; David Greenwald, MD; Gregory Haber, MD; Mark Schattner, MD; Jonathan Cohen, MD; Brian Bosworth, MD

Date January 28, 2009
Topic 2009 NYSGE Annual Dinner & Paul Sherlock Lecture: "Political Gastroenterology: Scope it Out"
Location Maloney & Porcelli
Speaker(s) Maurice A. Cerulli, MD

Date 03/03/2009
Topic 2009 Barrett's Seminar - "New Thinking and Approaches in Barrett's Esophagus"
Location NYPH, Cornell (Weill Greenberg Center)
Moderator*/Speakers Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD*, Hans Gerdes, MD*, Stuart Spechler, MD, V.K. Sharma, MD, Charles Lightdale, MD

Date 03/31/2009
Topic 2009 Obesity/Nutrition Seminar
Location St. Vincent's Medical Center
Organizers*/Speakers Mark Schattner, MD*, Anthony Starpoli, MD*, Jonathan Waitman, MD, Francesco Rubino, MD, Peter Stevens, MD

Date 04/21/2009
Topic 2009 Falkenstein Fellow's Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Hoffman Auditorium)
Organizers / Moderator* Frank Gress, MD, Adam Goodman, MD; Alfred Roston, MD*

Date 05/19/09
Topic Fellows pre-DDW Research Forum
Location Weill Cornell Medical Center
Organizer Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD

Date 06/09/2009
Topic 2009 DDW Wrap-Up
Location St. Vincent's Medical Center
Organizer Franklin Kasmin, MD

Date July 2009
Topic 2009 GI Fellows Summer Course
Location St. Lukes Medical Center
Course Director Jean Saleh, MD

Date September 15, 2009
Topic 2009 Pancreaticobiliary Seminar
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell (Uris Auditorium)
Faculty Dr. Greg Haber, Dr. Peter Stevens, Dr. Stavros Stavropoulos, Dr. Sammy Ho, Dr. David Robbins

Date September 25, 2009 http://www.mssm.edu/cme/courses/ibd/
Topic 6th Annual Mt. Sinai Inflammatory Bowel Disease Consultant’s
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Goldwurm Auditorium)
Speaker(s) Asher Kornbluth, MD, Thomas Ullman, MD

Date November 5, 2009
Topic 2009 Women in Gastroenterology
Location Please contact Ms. Florence Lefcourt via email: nysgefl@aol.com or phone: 212-777-5176 for Location Information
Speaker(s) Michelle Kang Kim, MD, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD, Ellen Scherl, MD, Robynne Chutkan, MD, Suzanne Rose, MD, Sharmila Anandasabapathy, Barbara Frank, MD

Date November 17, 2009
Topic 2009 GI Fellows Night
Location Weill Cornell Medical Center
Organizers/Moderator* Mark Schattner, MD, Christopher Dimaio, MD, Hans Gerdes, MD*

Date January 6, 2010
Topic 2010 Advances in Gastrointestinal Imaging
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Goldwurm Auditorium
Moderator*/Speakers Michelle Kim, MD*, Jerome Waye, MD, Frank Gress, MD, Sharmila Anandasabapathy, MD

Date February 11, 2010
Topic 2010 NYSGE Annual Dinner & Paul Sherlock Lecture: Jerome Waye, MD and Lawrence Brandt, MD
Location Maloney and Porcelli
Speaker(s) Jerome Waye, MD, Lawrence Brandt, MD

Date March 23, 2010
Topic 2010 Small Bowel Seminar, Delving Deep Beyond the Duodenum: Equipment and Applications for Small Bowel Endoscopy
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell (Weill Auditorium/ Archbold Commons)
Moderator*/Speakers Peter Stevens, MD*, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD, Jonathan Buscaglia, MD, Christina Tennyson, MD, Blair Lewis, MD, Amrita Sethi, MD

Date April 14, 2010
Topic 2010 Dr. David Falkenstein Fellows' Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Hoffman Auditorium)
Organizers/Moderator* Arnold Markowitz, MD, Christopher DiMaio, MD, Franklin Kasmin, MD*

Date April 26, 2010
Topic 2010 Pre-DDW Fellows Research Forum
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Seminar Rm, Ground Fl)
Moderators Michelle Kang Kim, MD, Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD

Date May 11, 2010
Topic 2010 DDW Wrap-Up Seminar: NOTES, EUS, IBD, Barrett's, Small Bowel disorders
Location Beth Israel Medical Center (Phillips Amublatory Center Auditorium)
Organizer/Moderator Franklin Kasmin, MD

Date June 15, 2010
Topic 2010 Pancreas Seminar: New Horizons and New Perspectives
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell - Weill Auditorium and Archbold Commons
Speakers/Moderator* Jonathan Buscaglia, MD, Peter Stevens, MD, Greg Haber, MD, Paresh Shah, MD, Joo Ha Hwang, MD, Franklin Kasmin, MD*

Date July 10, 2010
Topic 2010 GI Fellows Summer Course
Location St Lukes Medical Center
Course Director Jean Saleh, MD

Date 08/17/2010
Topic 2010 Small Bowel Video Capsule Endoscopy
Location New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell - Weill Auditorium and Archbold Commons