About NYSGE

Annual Business Meeting of Members

The Annual Business Meeting of Members is held on the first Wednesday of February.

2022-2023 Governing Council

President  Satish Nagula, MD, NYSGEF
Vice President Juan Carlos Bucobo, MD, NYSGEF
Treasurer John M. Poneros, MD, NYSGEF
Secretary  Reem Z. Sharaiha, MD, MSc, NYSGEF
Membership Councilor  Tamas A. Gonda, MD, NYSGEF
Immediate Past President  David L. Carr-Locke, MD, NYSGEF
Past President  Amrita Sethi, MD, MSc, NYSGEF
Audit Committee Chair  Brian P. Bosworth, MD, NYSGEF
Councilor-at-Large Abraham Khan, MD, NYSGEF
Councilor-at-Large Julie Yang, MD, NYSGEF
Councilor-at-Large  Sherif Andrawes, MD
Councilor-at-Large  Nikhil A. Kumta, MD, MS
Councilor-at-Large  Carl Crawford, MD
Councilor-at-Large Shireen Pais, MD
CME Director  Robin B. Mendelsohn, MD
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director  Amrita Sethi, MD, MSc, NYSGEF
Education Director  David A. Greenwald, MD, NYSGEF
Private Practice Director Gil Ascunce, MD, NYSGEF
Research Director Arvind Trindade, MD
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

Past Presidents

2021 David L. Carr-Locke
2020 Amrita Sethi
2019 Sammy Ho
2018 Seth A. Gross
2017 Christopher J. DiMaio
2016 Jonathan M. Buscaglia
2015 Adam J. Goodman
2014 Brian P. Bosworth
2013 Michelle Kang Kim
2012 Anthony A. Starpoli
2011 Frank G. Gress
2010 Mark Schattner
2009 Felice Schnoll-Sussman
2008 Scott Tenner
2007 Alfred Roston
2006 Arnold J. Markowitz
2005 Franklin E. Kasmin
2004 Jonathan Cohen
2003 Peter D. Stevens
2002 Seth Cohen
2001 David A. Greenwald
2000 Hans Gerdes
1999 Arnon Lambroza
1998 Angie Eng
1997 Harry Snady
1996 Ira S. Goldman
1995 Peter H. R. Green
1994 Peter K. Wayne
1993 Blair S. Lewis
1992 Ira M. Jacobson
1991 Ellen J. Scherl
1990 William P. Winkler
1989 Maurice Cerulli
1988 Jean W. Saleh
1987 Jerome S. Breslaw
1986 Kevin P. Morrissey
1985 Lawrence J. Brandt
1984 Ali Ghazi
1983 Jerome J. Siegel
1982 Charles J. Lightdale
1981 David B. Falkenstein
1980 Victor W. Groisser
1979 Kenneth A. Forde
1978 Sidney J. Winawer
1977 Jerome D. Waye
1976 David S. Zimmon
1975 Richard S.McCray
1974 Richard S.McCray