OAK BROOK, Ill., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The American and New York Societies for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE, NYSGE) are jointly hosting a benefit dinner on Friday, Dec. 17, in New York City to help endow a new fund to support gastrointestinal endoscopic research and public education in the greater New York region.
Information on reservations for the dinner, which will be at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Time Warner Center, 80 Columbus Circle, at 60th St., is available at http://www.asge.org/ or by contacting the ASGE Development Office at 855-353-ASGE.
“The NYSGE Fund for GI Endoscopy Research and Public Education, administered by the ASGE Foundation, will provide grants of $10,000 to $25,000 to support research and public education in the greater New York area,” stated Michael B. Kimmey, MD, Chair of the ASGE Foundation.
In addition to establishing the NYSGE Fund, the event also will honor 11 of the founders of the NYSGE, which is the oldest and largest regional GI endoscopy society in the United States, founded in 1974.
The NYSGE founders who will be honored are: Lawrence J. Brandt, MD, Montefiore Medical Center; Maurice A. Cerulli, MD, New York Methodist Hospital; Kenneth A. Forde, MD, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Victor V. Groisser, MD, Mountainside Hospital; Richard S. McCray, MD, and Jean W. Saleh, MD, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital; Kevin P. Morrissey, MD, New York- Presbyterian Medical Center; Jerome H. Siegel, MD, and Hiromi Shinya, MD, Beth Israel Medical Center; Jerome D. Waye, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center and Lenox Hill Hospital; and Sidney J. Winawer, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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