Course Directors

Nirav Shah, MD, MPH, FASGE, FACG
President, US Digestive Health, DDA Division
Chief Medical Officer, USDH Clinical Research
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine

Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Development and Philanthropy
Emeritus Director, Program for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
University of Pennsylvania Health System
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Faculty

Naim Alkhouri, MD
North Shore Gastroenterology
Westlake, OH

Kofi Clarke, MD, FACP, FRCP (Lond), AGAF
Penn State Health
Hershey, PA

Shivangi Kothari, MD, FACG, FASGE
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Satish Rao, MD
Augusta University
Augusta, GA

Brennan Spiegel, MD
Cedars-Sinani Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

John Betteridge, MD
U.S. Digestive Health
Lancaster, PA

Harshit Khara, MD
Geisinger Medical Center
Danville, PA

Anand Kumar, MD
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA

Farid Razavi, MD
U.S. Digestive Health
Wyomissing, PA

Manish Thapar, MD
Temple Health
Philadelphia, PA