AGA Establishing a Career in Esophageal and Gastric Diseases

Society: AGA

This 90 minute session is designed to link junior faculty/GI fellows/other trainees who are interested in pursuing a clinical/research career in diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract with established clinician/researcher experts in the field. One of each pair of the 5 expert pairs will give a short talk to the audience on a range of upper GI tract disorders, focusing on an overview of the disease, the knowledge and tools needed to gain expertise, what the expert perceives as future opportunities for expertise and/or research in this disease and general advice on how to advance personally and nationally in this field. At the conclusion of the didactic session (50 minutes), a 40 minute session will follow, with each pair of subject experts stationed at 5 different stations, to engage with a group of interested junior faculty/trainees. This will give the opportunity for attendees to gather and ask more individualized questions and start a mentoring relationship with one of the faculty. At the conclusion, it is hoped that contact information will be exchanged between faculty and junior faculty member to continue the mentoring relationship.