2026 What’s New in GI Symposium

FACULTY

Course Directors, Speakers, and Moderators


Course Directors

Neha Patel, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Tarek Sawas, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

David Fudman, MD

Associate Professor

Director

IBD Clinics Quality Officer

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Keynote Speaker

Walter Chan, MD, MPH, FACG, AGAF

Director

Center for Gastrointestinal Motility

Director

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Speakers

Ariel Aday, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Amisha Ahuja, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Kerry Dunbar, MD, PhD

Section Chief

Dallas VA Medical Center

Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Benjamin Elsbernd, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Shawn Shah, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Alessandra Storino Gonzalez, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Thomas Tielleman, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Katie Truitt, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Jiexin Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases

UT Southwestern Medical Center