You made a difference! Thank you for your support!
AGA Giving Day was the opportunity to help support a diverse GI investigator pipeline — for the benefit of our field and our patients. Donations will help the AGA Research Foundation foster the careers of underrepresented researchers. Thanks to generous support of our donors, we raised over $43,000 dollars to fund a diverse GI investigator pipeline.
AGA grants supported by AGA Giving Day will help spark diverse students’ interest in GI research careers and launch underrepresented investigators’ academic research careers.
With the support of our generous donors, we can fund the research endeavors of future investigators.
AGA Giving Day: Oct. 26, 2021
Funding a diverse GI investigator pipeline
AGA Giving Day is a signature effort led by the AGA Research Foundation to help support a diverse GI investigator pipeline — for the benefit of our field and our patients. Give today through Oct. 26, 2021.
AGA grants supported by Giving Day will help spark diverse students’ interest in GI research careers and launch underrepresented investigators’ academic research careers.
Be part of AGA Giving Day and help the AGA Research Foundation foster and support the careers of underrepresented researchers.
A special message to our donors
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A more diverse research community is critical to our field and our patients
You can still support this special effort!
All donations to AGA Giving Day go directly to either the GI Pipeline Fund, helping to support undergraduate researchers from traditionally underrepresented cohorts, or the Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Fund, for URiM fellows intending to pursue academic research careers.
Strengthen the pipeline of diverse investigators to address underrepresentation of URiMs in academic medicine
Your donation supports either one or both of these objectives:
- GI Pipeline Fund – providing undergraduate students from groups underrepresented in biomedical research with summer experiences in GI research.
- Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Fund – helping fellows to pursue academic research careers, particularly those from groups underrepresented in medicine.
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2050 population
By 2050, more than half of the U.S. population is predicted to be from a non-Caucasian background. We should strive for a physician and researcher workforce that reflects our patient population.
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Underrepresentation in biomedical research
There continues to be a lack of funding for young investigators, especially from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in biomedical research.
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Health care disparities and mentorships
Underrepresented minorities in medicine (URiMs) are more likely to perform research that addresses health care disparities and can serve as mentors to younger physicians and students.
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Different points of view
URiMs bring different points of view to the workplace and scholarly activities and teams composed of diverse individuals operate with increased creativity and promote cross-cultural competence.
Donate to one or both funds.
GI Pipeline Fund
Your gift will give undergraduate students exposure to GI research careers.
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Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Fund
Your gift will support fellows intending to become independent GI investigators.
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Help us reach our goal of $100,000 by Oct. 26.
GI Pipeline Fund
Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Fund
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Transforming lives
With your support, AGA will do more for undergraduate students and fellows in research.
Meet our donors
AGA Giving Day brings together a diverse coalition of supporters in the GI community. These individual donors and corporate funders are dedicated to help spark diverse students’ interest in GI research and launch underrepresented investigators’ academic research careers.
M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, AGAF
Chung Owyang, MD, AGAF
Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF
Michael Camilleri, MD, AGAF
John M. Carethers, MD, AGAF
Lin Chang, MD, AGAF
Nicholas O. Davidson, MD, DSc, AGAF
James W. Freston, MD, PhD, AGAF
James R. Goldenring, MD, PhD, AGAF
Naresh T. Gunaratnam MD, AGAF
John M. Inadomi, MD, AGAF
Barbara H. Jung, MD, AGAF
Lawrence Kim and Nhung Van
Michael L. Kochman, MD
Yvonne Romero, MD
Anil K. Rustgi, MD, AGAF
Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF
Thomas J. Serena
John I. Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF
Ricardo Blum
Gyorgy Baffy, MD, PhD, AGAF
C. Richard Boland, MD, AGAF
Kanak Das, MD
Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, AGAF
Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, MPH, AGAF
Ronald P. Fogel, MD, AGAF
Lawrence S. Friedman, MD, FASGE, AGAF
Francis M. Giardiello, MD, AGAF
Gregory J. Gores, MD, AGAF
Gail A. Hecht, MD, MS, AGAF
Charles J. Kahi, MD, AGAF
Alison M. Kim, PhD
Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF
Uri Ladabaum, MD
Nicholas F. LaRusso, MD, AGAF
David A. Lieberman, MD, AGAF
Suzette Rivera MacMurray, MD
Darrell S. Pardi, MD, MSc, AGAF
David A. Peura, MD, AGAF
Daniel K. Podolsky, MD, AGAF
Don W. Powell, MD, AGAF
Deborah D. Proctor, MD, AGAF
Gary D. Wu, MD, AGAF
Clara Abraham, MD
Jacob Alexander, MBBS, MD, DM, FACP
David H. Alpers, MD, AGAF
Sarah Frances Andres, PhD
Kim E. Barrett, PhD, AGAF
Elisa Katherine Boden, MD
Cem Cengiz, MD
Nancy T. Chill
Michael V. Chiorean, MD, AGAF
Robert B. Cusworth, MD,AGAF
Swathi Eluri, MD
Laurel R. Fisher, MD, AGAF
Yasushi Fukutomi, MD, FASGE, AGAF
Ruby Greywoode, MD
Lynn Grone
Kevin James Harlen
Tom and Martha Imperiale
Yukimoto Ishii, MD, PhD, AGAF
Rachel Blankson Issaka, MD, MAS
Bryson William Katona, MD, MS, PhD
David A. Katzka, MD, AGAF
David Harris Kerman, MD
David J. Levinthal, MD, PhD, AGAF
Shelly C. Lu, MD, AGAF
Aimee Lee Lucas, MD, MS, AGAF
Suzette Rivera MacMurray, MD
Antonio Mendoza Ladd, MD, AGAF, FACG, FASGE
Kenichiro Mikami, MD, PhD, AGAF
Long H. Nguyen, MD
Tamas Ordog, MD, AGAF
Pal Demeter, MD, PhD, AGAF
Monina F. Pascua, MD, PharmD, MSCE
Anca I. Pop, MD, MBA, AGAF
David Matthew Poppers
Sandra M. Quezada, MD, MS, AGAF
Jean-Pierre Reinhold, MD, AGAF
Rhonda F. Souza, MD, AGAF
William E. Whitehead, PhD, AGAF
Takatsugu Yamamoto, MD, PhD
Top donors
See the full list of AGA Giving Day donors.
Corporate partners
We're funding health disparities research awards
The AGA Institute Research Policy Committee will determine how funds are dispersed. All donations to AGA Giving Day will go directly into AGA research awards earmarked for GI health disparities research. AGA has also committed one AGA Research Scholar Award to this effort.
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Message from AGA leadership
The facts
The patients we serve face racial health disparities daily.
They need our help now more than ever.
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AGA Giving Day is part of the AGA Equity Project
AGA has committed to a multi-year effort spanning all aspects of our organization to achieve equity and eradicate disparities in digestive diseases. Learn more about the AGA Equity Project.
