Awards and Announcements

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Our division and fellowship program are very happy to recognize Dr. Susie Quan with the Affiliated Faculty Teaching Award in honor of her outstanding contributions to our educational mission.  Dr. Quan is a Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) at Stanford and staff gastroenterologist at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.  Dr. Quan serves on the Clinical Competency Committee of our fellowship program and continuously demonstrates excellence in teaching.  Congratulations and thank you Dr. Quan!

Quotes from fellows:

“Exemplary coaching of endoscopic skills during procedures together. Particularly appreciate that when I’m struggling, she will take the scope to familiarize herself with the problem, then go back to where I was stuck and then give the scope back to me.”

“Goes above and beyond to organize the pig lab which was an excellent introduction in a well-organized, low stress, low consequence environment to endoscopic tools I had not used before.”

“Takes an active role in ensuring that logistics of fellows rotating at the VA are ironed out.”

“Excellent endoscopy teacher- provides very concrete feedback and real time suggestions for improving endoscopy skills.”

“Allows for discussion for clinical reasoning and use of evidence-based guidelines when making clinical decisions.”

“Allows for good fellow autonomy while providing guidance.”

Dr. Quan’s teaching philosophy: “My teaching philosophy is to foster a learning environment that is adaptable to each fellow’s performance level and goals. This may range from employing a more hands-on approach, to allowing space for supervised exploration, to providing supportive autonomy. I particularly enjoy teaching endoscopy, and it has been very rewarding to see our fellows learn new skills and gain proficiency.”

• Paul Kwo, MD Paul Kwo, received the DOM Master Teacher Award 2023.
• Linda Nguyen- Selected for the MODEL (Mentorship, Opportunities, Development, Empathy, Leadership) program.
• Renu Dhanasekaran received the Dr. Laure Aurelian award for the category of exceptional mentors of junior women biomedical researchers.
• JooHwa Hwang, Robert Huang  and Hanlee Ji received the PO1 award: Precision Interception of Gastric Cancer Precursors Through Molecular and Cellular Risk Stratification.
• Dean Felsher and Renu Dhanasekaran received the UO1 award from NCI/NIDDK Liver Cirrhosis Network (LCN).
• John Gubatan being selected as a FORWARD scholar with AGA.
• Linda Nguyen received the ANMS Distinguished Investigator Award for Women in Neurogastroenterology.
• Renu Dhanasekaran received the AASLD Bridge award and ACG Established Investigator Bridge award.