2013 Recipient

ACG International GI Training Grant AwardThe ACG and the International Relations Committee are pleased to announce the recipientof the International GI Training Grant for 2013. This program, initiated in 1995, providespartial financial support to physicians outside the United States and Canada to receiveclinical or clinical research training or education in Gastroenterology and Hepatology inselected medical training centers in North America. One grant of $10,000 has been awardedthis year.2013 RecipientSalome Bandoh, MDAccra, GhanaDr. Salome Bandoh is from Accra, Ghana and is currently working as a gastroenterologyfellow and physician specialist in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics of theKorle Bu Teaching Hospital. She plans to study infectious diarrhea and data from theInternational Hepatobiliary Neoplasia Registry and Biorepository projects at Mayo ClinicRochester under the direction of Drs. Mark Topazian and Lewis Roberts for six months.These projects will enhance her understanding of and experience with research methods,and lay the groundwork for her subsequent research programs in Ghana.Past International GI Training Grant Award Recipients2012 Wiriyaporn Ridtitid, MD, Thailand2011 Nikhil Anil Nadkarni, MD, India2010 Avelyn Kwok, MD, Australia2009 Andres Duarte Rojo, MD, Mexico2008 Ling Yi Zhang, MD, MS, China2007 Ian Homer Y. Cua, MD, Philippines2006 Alberto Rubio Tapia, MD, Mexico2005 Aldo Javier Montano-Loza, MD, Mexico2004 Ender Fakioglu, MD, Turkey2003 Kyoto Ito, MD, Japan2002 Ratha-korn Vilaichone, MD, Thailand2001 Mohamed El Sadany, MD, Egypt2000 Harshad C. Devarbhavi, MD, India1999 Marko Duvnjak, MD, Croatia1998 Eliza Maria de Brito, MD, Brazil1997 Jan Gunnar Hatlebakk, MD, NorwayMarisa Fonseca Magalhaes, MD, BrazilSri Prakash Misra, MD, India47