Leadership
Amrita Sethi, MD
President
Amrita Sethi is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. She is the Director of Interventional Endoscopy and the Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Program Director. She completed her general GI fellowship at MCV in Richmond, VA and then her advanced endoscopy fellowship at University of Colorado. She started at Columbia in New York in 2008 and has remained there since. Her clinical practice and research interests include ERCP , cholangioscopy, therapeutic EUS, ESD, POEM and other areas of third space endsocopy, endoscopic innovation, and endoscopic education. She has spoken extensively on these topics and served as course faculty during numerous live endoscopy courses, both nationally and internationally.
She is the founder and president of Women in Endoscopy (WIE). She is also the Vice-Chair for AGA’s CGIT. In 2020, she was awarded the Master Endoscopist Award by the ASGE. She served as the President of the New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (NYSGE) in 2020 and helped to lead the NY GI community through the COVID crisis.
Uzma Siddiqui, MD
Vice President
Uzma began her path to the present by graduating from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, completing her internal medicine residency and George Washington University and her gastroenterology fellowship at NYU. She also completed an advanced endoscopy fellowship at Yale University. Today, Dr. Siddiqui’s focus is on therapeutic endoscopy. Her clinical practice is centered on interventional endoscopy procedures related to pancreaticobiliary disease and GI tract neoplasms (EUS, ERCP, EMR, ESD). Dr. Siddiqui has extensive experience teaching and has published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and written book chapters on EUS, ERCP, pancreatic cancer, and palliative care for gastrointestinal malignancies.
Amit Desai, MD
Treasurer
Amit Desai, MD is a Senior Partner at Texas Digestive Disease Consultants and the GI Alliance. He is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and an interventional endoscopist at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Honors Program (BBA, Finance, 2006) and University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio (MD, 2010). He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He went on to complete his fellowships in Gastroenterology at Weill Cornell Medical Center where he served as Chief Fellow, and Interventional Endoscopy at Columbia University Medical Center, both in New York City. He moved back to Texas to start and develop an advanced endoscopy program at Texas Health Dallas, performing several of the first advanced procedures for the flagship hospital of Texas Health. He is a reviewer for peer-reviewed gastroenterology journals and has been featured on Dallas area radio programs.
Lisa Considine
Councilor
Lisa Considine is Vice President of Human Resources for the Global Endoscopy Business and a member of the Endoscopy Management Board. In her role, Lisa provides strategic Leadership to the Global Division with a strong focus on Talent Management, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership and Organization Development. Lisa has previously held senior HR leadership roles at BSC supporting the Global Finance, Global IT and Global Operations organizations. She quickly made an impact within these functions by driving several key strategic organizational and talent initiatives.
Prior to moving to the US in 2011, Lisa worked in senior HR roles within BSC’s Galway Operation where she successfully developed multiple programs in employee engagement and leadership development and training. Lisa has previously held HR positions of increasing responsibility within the Life Sciences sector outside of Boston Scientific. Lisa holds a BSc and MSc in Psychology, a Degree in HR Management in addition to a Diploma in Executive Coaching.
Jeanin van Hooft
Councilor
Dr. Van Hooft is specialist in interventions endoscopy, in particular hepato-pancreatico-biliary interventions. Since 2009 she has been leading a research group with a strong focus on pancreatic diseases and in part on endoscopic treatment of gastrointestinal strictures. Dr. Van Hooft has authored and co-authored over 275 peer reviewed publications and textbook chapters and has lectured at more than 200 national and international meetings.
She has been the chair of the ESGE guideline committee from 2016-2021 and is currently the
secretary general of the UEG. Furthermore she is a member of the board of Women in Endoscopy (WIE) and on National level she is active as member (treasurer) of the Pancreatitis Working group of the Netherlands (PWN) and member of the research board of the Dutch Pancreatic Cancer group (DPCG).
Roberta Maselli, MD, PhD
Councilor
Roberta Maselli, MD, PhD, got her degree in Medicine and Surgery and later the specialty in General Surgery at “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy. She also attended a one year theoretical and practical fellowship at the SUITE “Showa University International Training Center for Endoscopy”, Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan under the direction of Professors Haruhiro Inoue and Shin-ei Kudo during which time she achieved the Japanese “Permission of Advanced Clinical Training” for Foreign Medical Practitioner. The fellowship mainly focused on: POEM for esophageal achalasia, Diagnosis (NBI, Magnifying Endoscopy, Endocytoscopy) and endoscopic treatment (EMR,ESD) of GI cancers, SET.
Roberta also attended 6 month theoretical and practical Fellowship at the BIDS, “Baldota Institute for Digestive Sciences”, Mumbai, India directed by Dr. Amit Maydeo, the focus of which was Therapeutic ERCP and Diagnostic and Therapeutic EUS. She was conferred a PhD on “advanced technologies in surgery” at “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy in 2016.
Since September, 2015 Dr. Maselli has been the Endoscopic Unit of Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy alongside Dr. Alessandro Repici. Her clinical and research activity is mainly focused on the diagnosis and endoscopic treatment of early GI neoplasia and advanced endoscopic procedures, as well as on the NOTES (Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery).
In April, 2017 she was recognized as recipient of the “Gerry Scotti Award 2017” for the ongoing project of “POEM and Microbial Translocation.” Roberta has authored more than 50 papers published in recognized international scientific journals. She is member of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED), Italian Society of Young Surgeons (SPIGC) where she is the National Referent for Endoscopic Surgery, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).
Claudia Patricia Carvallo Guevara, MD
Councilor
Maria Pellisé, MD, PhD
Councilor
Dr Maria Pellisé, MD, PhD, Specialist in Gastroenterology, clinical coordinator of the Population Screening Programme and coordinator of the colorectal cancer MDT at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. She is especially devoted to colorectal cancer screening, diagnosis and surveillance and runs a high-risk colorectal cancer clinic. She carried out her PhD program at the University of Barcelona focused on GI cancer staging with endoscopic ultrasound-dine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA). She completed her training with a stage at Westmead Hospital, Sydney University, Australia where she learned complex polypectomy.
She is a national and international leader in advanced imaging and therapeutic endoscopy for colorectal high-risk patients. She has been editor of Endoscopy Journal from 2015-2021. She is currently associate professor at the Universitat de Barcelona where she is the director of the postgraduate master in advance endoscopy, investigator at IDIBAPS, Chair of the Equity and Diversity WG at the European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and is author of more than 144 research papers with an h-index=36 SCOPUS.