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 (Competition) Night #1
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Speaker(s) Organizers: Brian Bosworth, MD; Hans Gerdes, MD
Moderator 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 David Falkenstein, MD, Fellow’s Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Speaker(s) Organizers: Mark Schattner, MD; Arnold Markowitz, MD
Moderator Greg Haber, 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/Fellow's (Competition) Night #2
Location Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Speaker(s) Organizers: Michelle Kim, MD; Felice Schnoll-Sussman, MD
Moderator Jerome Waye, 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
Organizers/Speakers*

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 David Falkenstein, MD, Fellows' Night
Location Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center -Hoffman Auditorium
Speaker(s) Organizers: Mark Schattner, MD , Emmy Ludwig-Miller, MD, Moderator: Charles Lightdale, MD

Date June 3, 2008
Topic 2008 DDW WRAP-UP
Location Beth Israel Medical Center, Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (2nd Fl)
Moderator*/Speakers

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 National Pancreas Foundation Fundraiser
Location TBA
Speaker(s) TBA