BE GUTSY
GO WITH YOUR GUT
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“It was gutsy when I took on a new position as Division Director and President of a major GI professional society in the same year.”
Jennifer Christie, MD, FASGE
“It was gutsy when I myself swallowed our first prototype of a distal esophageal sampling device.”
Amitabh Chak, MD, MASGE
“It was gutsy when I reached age 50 it was my turn to get screened for colorectal cancer (those were the guidelines then). To honor the 50,000 Veterans who agreed to be randomized into the CONFIRM clinical trial comparing colonoscopy and FIT that I co-lead with my colleague Jason Dominitz MD, I allowed my personal colorectal cancer screening to be determined by a coin flip. The coin flip determined that I should be screened with FITand I continue to be screened by that modality annually. You can see the coin flip on my X account @DougRobertsonMD.”
Douglas J. Robertson, MD, MPH, AGAF
“It was gutsy when I quit my 2nd job as an employee and started my solo practice with an ambulatory endoscopy center and the rest is history.”
Ulric Duncan, MD
“It was gutsy when I bunked my OBGYN rotation exam because I got this opportunity to perform an appendectomy during my final year of med school.”
Abdullah Altaf, MD
“It was gutsy when I coiled bleeding duodenal varices in a patient who was bleeding to death and had no options even though I had never done it before. She lived and got a liver transplant 2 days later.”
Michelle Anderson, MD, MSc, FASGE
“It was gutsy when I decided to move halfway across the country to take my first faculty position. Little did I know what laid ahead – but with hard work and a little bit of luck, it all worked out.”
Don C. Rockey, MD
“It was gutsy when I cold emailed Gastro leaders across the country my CV and research program plan … and that is how I ended up happily situated as a research tenure-track Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children’s.”
Kelli Vandussen, PhD
