About NYSGE

Annual Business Meeting of Members

The Annual Business Meeting of Members is held on the first Wednesday of February.
Register for the Annual Business Meeting
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Paul Sherlock, MD Distinguished Lecture
Secretary’s Annual Membership Report

2021-2022 Governing Council

President  David L. Carr-Locke, MD, NYSGEF
Vice President  Satish Nagula, MD
Treasurer  Juan Carlos Bucobo, MD, NYSGEF
Secretary  John M. Poneros, MD, NYSGEF
Membership Councilor  Reem Z. Sharaiha, MD, MSc, NYSGEF
Immediate Past President  Amrita Sethi, MD, MSc, NYSGEF 
Past President  Sammy Ho, MD, NYSGEF
Audit Committee Chair  Brian P. Bosworth, MD, NYSGEF
Councilor-at-Large  Lauren G. Khanna, MD, MS
Councilor-at-Large  Patrick I. Okolo III, MD, MPH
Councilor-at-Large  Abraham Khan, MD, NYSGEF
Councilor-at-Large  Julie Yang, MD
Councilor-at-Large  Sherif Andrawes, MD
Councilor-at-Large  Nikhil A. Kumta, MD, MS
CME Director  Robin B. Mendelsohn, MD
Diversity and Member Engagement Director  Adam J. Goodman, MD, NYSGEF
Education Director  David A. Greenwald, MD, NYSGEF
Private Practice Director  Gil Ascunce, MD, NYSGEF
Research Director  Tamas A. Gonda, MD, NYSGEF
Website, Technology and Social Media Director  Anthony A. Starpoli, MD, NYSGEF

Brief History of NYSGE

The New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (NYSGE) was founded in 1974 by Drs. Henry Colcher, Howard J. Eddy Jr., Richard McCray, Paul Sherlock, Hiromi Shinya, Jerome D. Waye, Sidney J. Winawer and David S. Zimmon, with the goal of developing a New York working group of friends to teach each other and disseminate their collective knowledge of gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Over the years, the Society has flourished and today is comprised of more than 300 attending members and over 200 fellows.  NYSGE is the largest regional endoscopic society in the United States.  To fulfill its mission of education and research, the society hosts numerous seminars throughout the year, including an annual summer endoscopy course for new fellows, and sponsors the Annual New York Course, a major postgraduate endoscopy conference each December.  NYSGE also endows the $10,000 Florence Lefcourt Award, which is presented for endoscopic research or community outreach initiatives.

NYSGE: An Historical Perspective by Richard McCray, MD and Sidney Winawer, MD, August 31, 2007