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Current Fellow<\/h3>\n

\"Katrina<\/h4>\n

Katrina Dimaano MD<\/h4>\n

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Previous GI Fellows<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2024-2025<\/td>\nJosh Billings, MD, Denver VA Medical Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023-2024<\/td>\nMadeline Higgins, MD, Morton Hospital in Taunton MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022-2023<\/td>\nJustin Hsu, MD, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021-2022<\/td>\nManuel Sanchez-Casalongue, MD, PhD, Rush Copley Medical Center, Aurora, IL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020-2021<\/td>\nJeffrey Lipman, MD, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019-2020<\/td>\nIvy Haskins, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center,\u00a0Omaha, NE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018-2019<\/td>\nRichard Thompson, MD, St Alexius health in Dickinson North Dakota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2018<\/td>\nAnn Chung, MD, Wake Med, Raleigh, NC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016-2017<\/td>\nJulie Ann Wesp, MD, Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Santa Fe, NM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015-2016<\/td>\nDahlia Tawfik-Sexton, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Riverside, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014-2015<\/td>\nMeredith Duke, MD, MBA, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012-2014<\/td>\nEleisha Flanagan, MD, University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011-2013<\/td>\nIman Ghaderi, MD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010-2012<\/td>\nElias Darido, MD, First Choice Weight Loss, Houston, TX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009-2011<\/td>\nLindsee McPhail, MD, Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008-2010<\/td>\nRaghid Bitar, MD, Chatham Hospital, Siler City, NC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007-2009<\/td>\nGeoffrey Kohn, MD, Melbourne, Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006-2008<\/td>\nJuan Carlos Vasquez, MD, Carrollton Regional Medical Center, Medford, OR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005-2007<\/td>\nD. Wayne Overby, MD, UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus, Hillsborough, NC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004-2006<\/td>\nLisa Balduf, MD, Presbyterian Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004-2005<\/td>\nMichael France, MD, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003-2005<\/td>\nMitchell Cahan, MD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002-2004<\/td>\nMarc M. Zar\u00e9, MD, Obesity Surgery Associates, San Jose, CA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001-2003<\/td>\nJohn M. Morton, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000-2002<\/td>\nTananchai A. Lucktong, MD, Carilon Health System Roanoke, VA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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