The ACG Institute and The Center for Leadership, Ethics and Equity support four distinct leadership programs, with each program being tailored to a distinct career stage:
- Emerging Leadership Program (3rd & 4th year GI fellows)
- Early Career Leadership Program (1-5 years post-fellowship completion)
- Advanced Leadership Program (10-20 years post-fellowship completion)
- Clinical Research Leadership Program (2-15 years post-fellowship completion with grant funding as a PI/Co-PI in the last 10 years)
In a NEW initiative, the leadership programs offered by the Institute will convene over one weekend, June 6-8, 2025, in Washington, DC, as a part of Leadership YOU. Leadership YOU will provide an opportunity for program participants in all four cohorts to network and engage in shared learning sessions, in addition to cohort-specific professional development.
Introducing the 2025 cohort of ACG Institute leadership programs:
Emerging Leadership Program (ELP)
| Manik Aggarwal, MBBS Mayo Clinic | Mehak Bassi, MD Saint Peter’s University Hospital, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Hospital |
| Vaishnavi Boppana, MD University of New Mexico | Sarah Burroughs, DO Endeavor Health |
| Vibhu Chittajallu, MD West Virginia University | Erica Duh, MD University of California Irvine |
| Suzanne Elshafey, MD, MPH New York Presbyterian Hospital- Columbia University & Weill Cornell Medical Centers | Chelsea Forbes, MD Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (National Capital Consortium) |
| Prateek Harne, MBBS, MD Allegheny Health Network | Rafaela Izurieta, MD Brooke Army Medical Center |
| Gassan Kassim, MD Cleveland Clinic | Grace Kim, MD University of Chicago |
| Jessica Lin, MD, MBA Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Ross McMillan, MD, PhD University of Chicago |
| William Minteer, MD University of Southern California | Alicia Muratore, MD University of North Carolina |
| Jellyana Peraza, MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Daryl Ramai, MD, MPH, MSc Brigham & Women’s Hospital |
| Ernesto Robalino Gonzaga, MD AdventHealth | Sunny Sandhu, MD University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Neal Shah, DO Mount Sinai South Nassau | Achintya Singh, MD, MBBS Case Western Reserve University- MetroHealth Medical Center |
| Elizabeth Terry, MD University of Alabama at Birmingham | Elida Voth, MD Mayo Clinic |
| Muhammad Nadeem Yousaf, MD University Hospital, University of Missouri | Felix Zhou, MD Cedars-Sinai |
Early Career Leadership Program (ECLP)
| Suha Abushamma, MD Cleveland Clinic | Ashwin Agrawal, DO, MA, MBA The Unterber Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, RWJBarnabas Health |
| Elie Al Kazzi, MD, MPH NYU Grossman School of Medicine | Christina Awad, MD Brooke Army Medical Center |
| Bradford Chong, MD University of Chicago | Rahul Dalal, MD, MPH Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
| Kalpit Devani, MD Prisma Health/University of South Carolina, School of Medicine | Andrew Elden, MD AdventHealth Orlando |
| Daniela Guerrero Vinsard, MD Minneapolis Veterans Affairs | Veronica Jarido, MD OneGI; Skyline Endoscopy of West Tennessee |
| Amornluck Krasaelap, MD Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of Washington | Yuying Luo, MD Mount Sinai West & Morningside |
| Emad Mansoor, MD Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center | Kajali Mishra, MD Loyola University |
| Neena Mohan, MD Temple University Hospital | Andrew Ofosu, MD University of Cincinnati |
| Malav Parikh, MD Hackensack University Medical Center | Milan Patel, MD, MBA Virginia Commonwealth University Health System |
| Kelly Pizzo, MD Portland Gastroenterology Center | Alexander Podboy, MD University of Virginia |
| Lindsey Russell, MD, MSc Cleveland Clinic | Salih Samo, MD, MSci University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Lindsey Sattler, MD Bellevue Hospital Center | Kevin Song, MD Swedish Health Services |
| Xiaocen Zhang, MD Tufts Medical Center |
Advanced Leadership Program (ALP)
| Walter Chan, MD, MPH, FACG Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School | Ann Flynn, MD, FACG University of Utah Health |
| Aaron Goldberg, MD, FACG Phoenix VA | Ekta Gupta, MD Johns Hopkins University |
| Kathryn Hutchins, MD, FACG University of Nebraska Medical Center | Jami Kinnucan, MD, FACG Mayo Clinic Florida |
| Na Li, MD, PhD The Ohio State University | Melissa Martinez, MD Carle Foundation Hospital |
| Jagdish Nachnani, MD, MBA Vanderbilt Health | Rathi Narayan, MD, MBA, FACG Gastroenterology Associates of Kingsport |
| Mariam Naveed, MD AdventHealth Altamonte Springs | Mariam Sauer, MD Wilmington Gastroenterology |
| Neeral Shah, MD, FACG University of Virginia | Neil Sheth, MD Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan Health |
| Radha Tamerisa, MD Katy Integrative Gastroenterology |
Clinical Research Leadership Program (CRLP)
| Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa, MD, MPH Massachusetts General Hospital | Cristal Brown, MD, MHS University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School |
| Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg, MD, MS University of Michigan | Linda Cummings, MD, MS, FACG University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University |
| Parakkal Deepak, MD, MS, FACG Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis | Claire Jansson-Knodell, MD Cleveland Clinic |
| Jennifer Kolb, MD, MS David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System | Berkeley Limketkai, MD, PhD, FACG UCLA |
| Jorge Machicado, MD, MPH University of Michigan | Nikhilesh Mazumder, MD, MPH University of Michigan |
| Amol Sharma, MD, MS, FACG Medical University of South Carolina | Kara Wegermann, MD Duke University |
| Karn Wijarnpreecha, MD, MPH University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix |