Announcing Our 2024 AGA Council Chair and Section Leaders

Immunology, Microbiology & Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IMIBD)

Florian Rieder, MDVice Chair

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Nominating committee members

• Fernando S. Velayos, MD, AGAF, Chair
• Brigid S. Boland, MD, University of California, San Diego
• Karen L. Edelblum, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
• Michael Kattah, MD, PhD, UCSF Gastroenterology
• Andres J. Yarur, MD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Los Angeles

Liver & Biliary (LB)

Don Rockey, MDVice Chair

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston

Nominating committee members

• Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, AGAF, Chair
• Brett Fortune, MD, MSc, Montefiore Medical Center
• Ruben Hernaez, MD, MPH, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
• Cynthia Ann Moylan, MD, MHS, MS, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Douglas A. Simonetto, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Microbiome & Microbial Therapy (MMT)

Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPHVice Chair

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

Nominating committee members

• Purna C. Kashyap, MBBS, AGAF, Chair
• Melinda Engevik, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
• Christian Jobin, PhD, University of Florida
• Vanessa Leone, PhD, The University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Jun Yu, MD, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition (OMN)

Berkeley M. Limketkai, MD, PhDVice Chair

University of California Los Angeles

Nominating committee members

• Andres Jose Acosta, MD, PhD, Chair
• Barham K. Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Alan L. Buchman, MD, MSPH, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Octavia Pickett-Blakely, MD, MHS, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• Robert Shulman, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine

Pediatric Gastroenterology & Developmental Biology (PGDB)

Kelli L. VanDussen, PhDVice Chair

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center