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
