Providing Noteworthy Speakers for Training in Your Communities
The goal of the ACG Edgar Achkar Visiting Professorship Program, is to bolster GI training programs with visiting professors which providing lectures, small group discussions, panel discussions, and one-on-one visits with trainees and faculty. You choose the speaker; the Institute covers the travel costs and honorarium. *Application is currently closed*
These visiting professorships allow for excellent engagement with our ACG community and interaction with trainees. I particularly enjoyed meeting the trainees and discussing cases. We discussed many clinical pearls, but also discussed the role that societies like the ACG can play in fulfillment and career development.Dr. Millie D. Long, MD, MPH, FACG
How It Works:
The purpose of these visits is to reach a diverse number of programs while aiming to maximize the impact of each visit by targeting GI training programs, which could also leverage an additional community event with local ACG member physicians, sometimes in conjunction with a local gut club. The programs offer expertise for a specific area of need at each institution.
Since the program’s inception in 2014, the Institute has supported more than 133 visits in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada.
New! ACG Visiting Scholar in Equity, Diversity, and Ethical Care
The Visiting Scholar in Equity, Diversity, and Ethical Care will provide lectures to create awareness around the issues and challenges related to delivering equitable care, respecting diversity, and instilling ethical decision making. A section of the EAVP application will allow institutions to include a focus on equity, diversity, and/or ethical care. These topics can be offered as stand alone lectures or in conjunction with a disease state topic driven visit (i.e., Endoscopic Considerations in Underserved Populations). Learn more about the application process here: gi.org/acg-institute/acg-visiting-scholar
Program Details
Evaluation Criteria
Application FAQs
Previous Visit Topics
Past Speakers
Locations of Previous EAVP Visits
2025 ACG Edgar Achkar
Visiting Professorships
*Seth Gross, MD, FACG
Mount Sinai West & Morningside
March 5
Nancy S. Reau, MD, FACG
West Virginia University
March 13-14
*Baharak Moshiree, MD, MSc, FACG
Wayne State University
March 14
*Christopher D. Vélez, MD
Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital
March 27
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
April 9
Michelle K. Kim, MD, MSc, PhD
St. Louis School of Medicine
May 13-16
Jonathan A. Leighton, MD, FACG
UNC Blue Ridge
May 16
Rena H. Yadlapati, MD, MSHS, FACG
Cook County Health
May 16
Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG
University of New Mexico
May 21
Amy S. Oxentenko, MD, FACG
Michigan Medicine
May 21-23
Paul Y. Kwo, MD, FACG
The University of Texas at Austin Dell School of Medicine
June 18
*Victor Chedid, MD, MS
Mercy Medical Center
August 14
Amandeep K. Shergill, MD, MS, FACG
Houston Methodist
September 11-12
Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, MACG
University of Virginia
October 1