ACG’s Advancement to Fellowship

Since the College’s inception in the mid 1930’s, the designation of Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (FACG), has been bestowed upon select members in recognition of significant professional achievement and superior competence within the field of gastroenterology, pediatric gastroenterology, gastrointestinal surgery, gastrointestinal radiology, or gastrointestinal pathology. The FACG designation represents achievements that highlight your dedication to your profession.

To Advance to Fellow, you must meet certain requirements:

• Demonstration of scholarly activities, which include continuing education experience, professional leadership, and excellence in the fields of clinical practice and/or academic medicine.
• Current uninterrupted membership or international membership in the College for a period of no less than five years (post Resident/Trainee Membership).
• Minimum of 3 distinct* ACG managed and sponsored CME courses within the last six years:
  • Three in-person meetings are required (Exceptions will be considered for extenuating circumstances)
  • *Attendance at multiple courses in the same meeting, e.g., PG Course and Annual Meeting, or Regional Meeting plus Hepatology School counts as one program
• Evidence of ongoing involvement in ACG activities such as Committees, Courses, Annual Meeting attendance, etc.
• Letters of recommendation by two Fellows of the College. The letters should, at a minimum, include:
  • How well you know the applicant (in what capacity, for how long, etc.)
  • Qualifications that justify Fellowship, specifically describing the applicant’s scope of practice, their strengths, including:
    • Research and publications
    • Teaching
    • Clinical care
    • Medical leadership
    • Community service related to Gastroenterology
  • The candidate’s integrity and moral character
  • Activities in the College, such as Committee service, presentations, etc.
  • A means of contact if the Committee has questions
• Documentation of certification by one or more of the following specialty boards recognized by the Council on Graduate Medical Education of the American Medical Association: American Board of Internal Medicine (subspecialty Boards in Gastroenterology), or its equivalent, e.g., American Board of Pediatrics (subspecialty Board in Gastroenterology), American Board of Surgery, American Board of Radiology, American Board of Pathology, the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine or the Canadian equivalent qualifications, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
• Application fee of $50
• Annual Membership dues of $325 (Must be responsible for paying annual dues. Fellows may not be sponsored by pharmaceutical or device companies)
• If a FACG ACG membership ends due to non-payment of membership dues, this will result in the loss of FACG designation.

Benefits of Fellowship of ACG:

• You can run for elected office on the Board of Governors
• You can serve as the Chair of an ACG Committee
• You can be nominated for the Board of Trustees
• You can be nominated for a Master Award or the Samuel S. Weiss Award

Additional Benefits:

• Add FACG in your title, on business cards, and on your CV
• Recognition in the ACG Magazine, on the ACG website and at the Annual Meeting
• Certificate of Advancement to Fellowship signed by the ACG President and Secretary

Members Who Advanced to Fellowship This Year

Ariel W. Aday, MD, FACG Imo Akpan, MD, FACG Barakat Aburajab Altamimi, MD, FACG Gaurav Arora, MD, FACG Ganesh S. Aswath, MD, FACG Shinivas Bishu, MD, FACG John A. Boger, MD, FACG Ross C.D. Buerlein, MD, FACG Dustin A. Carlson, MD, FACG Subhankar Chakraborty, MD, FACG Erica R. Cohen, MD, FACG Seth D. Crockett, MD, FACG Robin L. Dalal, MD, FACG Melissa Latorre Debordeaux, MD, FACG Larry M. Deppe, MD, FACG Kalpit H. Devani, MD, FACG Murali Dharan, MD, FACG Liege I. Diaz Urrutia MD, FACG Sankalp Dwivedi, MD, FACG Krista M. Edelman, MD, FACG John N. Gaetano, MD, FACG Soumik Ghosh, MD, FACG Neelam G. Gidwaney, MD, FACG Jorge T. Go, MD, FACG Deepinder Goyal, MD, FACG Ekta Gupta, MD, FACG Shadi Hamdeh, MD, FACG Muhammad B. Hammami, MD, FACG Simon J. Hong, MD, FACG Jennifer Horsley-Silva, MD, FACG Kayci Huff-Hardy, MD, FACG Robert W. Isfort, MD, FACG Mohammad K. Ismail, MD, FACG Rachel B. Issaka, MD, FACG Harish V. Iyer, MD, FACG Neha Jakhete, MD, FACG Olanreawaju Jimoh, MD, FACG Virendra Joshi, MD, FACG Priti Joshi-Guske, MD, FACG Susan S. Kais, MD, FACG Keith R. Kearney, DO, FACG Hafiz M.A. Khan, MD, FACG Vishnal Khurana, MD, FACG Bharati Kochar, MD, FACG Srinadh Komanduri, MD, FACG Brian Kim, MD, FACG Ramesh Kumar, MD, FACG George Kunnackal John, MD, FACG David J. Levinthal, MD, PhD, FACG Benjamin Levy III, MD, FACG Darrick K. Li, MD, PhD, FACG Alisa Likhitsup, MD, FACG Sandar Linn, MD, FACG Jonas F. Ludvigsson, MD, FACG

Katie H. Macfarlane, DO, FACG Neha Mathur, MD, FACG Folasade P. May, MD, FACG John McCarthy, MD, FACG Jessica L. McKee, MD, FACG Julia McNabb-Baltar. MD, FACG Charles B. Miller, MD, FACG Vipin Mittal, MD, FACG Matthew B. McNeill, MD, FACG Bashar Mohamad, MD, FACG Neena Mohan, MD, FACG Sachin Mohan, MD, FACG Zaheer Nabi, MD, FACG Jagdish S. Nachnani, MD, FACG Austin T. Nelson, MD, FACG Anh D. Nguyen, MD, FACG Long B. Nguyen, DO, FACG Andrew Ofosu, MD, FACG Miguel E. Ordonez, MD, FACG Partha Pal, MD, FACG Marianna Papademetriou, MD, FACG Dhyanesh A. Patel, MD, FACG Girish K. Pati, MD, FACG Jonh J. Pineda Bonilla, MD, FACG Krishn Kant Rawal, MD, FACG Kavya M. Reddy, MD, FACG Timothy E. Ritter, MD, FACG Brett Sadowski, MD, FACG Ahmed Saeed, MD, FACG Mariam Sauer, MD, FACG Gregory S. Sayuk, MD, FACG Trupti S. Shinde, MD, FACG Mohamed G. Shoreibah, MD, FACG Nilesh B. Shukla, MD, FACG Hassan A. Siddiki, MD, FACG Paulos Simadibrata, MD, FACG Gregory S. Smith, MD, FACG Zain Sobani, MD, FACG Indu Srinivasan, MD, FACG Jung W. Suh, MD, FACG Jianhua Tau, MD, FACG Pushpak Taunk, MD, FACG Belen A. Tesfaye, MD, FACG Camille S. Thelin, MD, FACG V. Thoguluva Chandrasekar, MD, FACG Alan H. Tieu, MD, FACG Andrew Ukleja, MD, FACG Brian J. van der Linden, MD, FACG Edward C. Villa, MD, FACG Xiao Jing Wang, MD, FACG Bingru Xie, MD, FACG Mohamad H. Yousef, MD, FACG Daniel B. Zandman, MD, FACG Carlos Zapata Antigoni, MD, FACG Yan Zhao, MD, FACG