Dr. Rao is professor at Georgia Regents University as well as chief of Gastroenterology/Hepatology and founding director of the Digestive Health Center and the GI Service Line. He is leading an initiative to expand the university’s capabilities in treating digestive disorders that includes a new Digestive Health Center and neurogastroenterology and motility suite. He is working with colleagues in surgery, urology, otolaryngology, and neurology to create a model system of interdisciplinary care for GI motility patients. Dr. Rao is past president of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society. He received the 3 highest honors from the American Gastroenterological Association: The Distinguished Clinician Award, the Masters Award for Outstanding Clinical Research, and the Distinguished Educator Award. He received the Auxiliary Research Award from the American College of Gastroenterology and several international awards for his research and teaching. He is cochair of AGA Council on Neurogastroenterology and GI Motility. Dr. Yeong Yeh Lee graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and continued his post-graduate training in internal medicine in the same institution. After his gastroenterology fellowship with the Ministry of Health of Malaysia, he went on to complete his PhD with Kenneth McColl at Glasgow, United Kingdom. Subsequently he did his post-doctoral fellowship with Satish Rao, co-editor and mentor, at Augusta University but also spent time at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorder with an award from the American College of Physicians. Currently, he is Professor of Medicine, Clinical Consultant and Director of GI Function & Motility Lab in his alma mater, USM. Dr. Lee serves as editors of several international journals and steering committee members of Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, World Gastroenterology Organization and a few regional working groups but also the scientific chairs of meetings including Asian Pacific Digestive Week. He speaks regularly at international and local meetings. Dr. Lee also trained GI fellows and supervised PhDs and post-doctoral fellows. He has received many accolades including the AGA-Moti L. and Kamla Rustgi International Award 2012, the Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2015 and most recently the Top Research Scientist of Malaysia 2018. He authored and co-authored 7 book chapters and more than 150 highly-cited articles. Dr. Uday C. Ghoshal graduated from the Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, West Bengal, India in 1986 with University first position in all the three professional examinations and eight gold medals. He did his post-graduation (MD in Internal Medicine) from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India in 1991, and subsequently completed his post-doctorate fellowship in Gastroenterology (DM) from the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 1994. After a period of working as a Consultant in the Department of Gastroenterology at the Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research at Kolkata, West Bengal, India, he joined Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences as Assistant Professor in 2000 where he has been working for the last two decades and is currently Professor in the Dept. of Gastroenterology in the same Institute where he founded and established a well-known Luminal Gastroenterology, GI motility, and functional GI disease unit and laboratory. Dr. Ghoshal founded Asian Neurogastroenterology and Motility Association and the Indian Motility and Functional Diseases Association (currently the President of the latter). He also serves in the several committees of the Rome Foundation, in which, he is currently the Chair of the International Liaison and Research Committees. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, the Rome Foundation, and the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India). He has been invited as a faculty members in several national and international congresses. Dr. Ghoshal also trained a large number of GI fellows and has been guide for several DM and PhD students. He has edited one book on GI Motility, three patents, and serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of several international journals. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology and has published 280 papers that are widely cited. He has received several national and international awards and orations.
