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Guidelines for privileging and credentialing physicians in gastrointestinal endoscopy

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Acknowledgments

The authors of this guideline would like to thank the members of two committees whose members are listed below.

Flexible endoscopy

Drs. Matthew Albert, Joel Anderson, Juliane Bingener-Casey, Curtis Bower, Robert Bowles, Racquel Bueno, Amy Cha, John Cosgrove, Giovanni Dapri, Brian Davis, Peter Denk, Brian Dunkin, Manoel Galvao Neto, Melanie Hafford, Robert Hawes, Jeffrey Hazey, Eric Hungness, Andrew Kastenmeier, Leena Khaitan, Michael Kochman, Edward Lin, Saniea Majid, John Marks, Jeffrey Marks, Jose Martinez, Daniel McKenna, Elisabeth McLemore, Ellen Morrow, Faris Murad, Ankit Patel, Eric Pauli, Kyle Perry, Melissa Phillips, Jeffrey Ponsky, Kinga Powers, Archana Ramaswamy, Michael Russo, Mario Salazar, Bryan Sandler, Wayne Schwesinger, Niazy Selim, Lee Smith, Nabil Tariq, Ezra Teitelbaum, Dana Telem, Thadeus Trus, Michael Ujiki, David Urbach, Vic Velanovich, Gary Vitale, Richard Whelan, Andrew Wright, Manabu Yamamoto, Bradley Zagol and Kashif Zuberi.

Guidelines

Drs. Sajida Ahad, Edward Auyang, Ziad Awad, Dustin Bermudez, Giovanni Dapri, Steven DeMeester, Robert Fanelli, Liane Feldman, Erika Fellinger, Patrice Frederick, Teresa H. deBeche-Adams, Stephen Haggerty, Imran Hassan, Celeste Hollands, William Hope, Mustafa Hussain, Duke Jaspal, Jason Keune, Geoffrey Kohn, Daniel McKenna, Oliver Muensterer, Vimal Narula, David Overby, Jonathan Pearl, Raymond Price, Michael Pucci, Francisco Quinteros, Nathan Richards, William Richardson, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Nathaniel Stoikes, Mark Talamini, Akuezunkpa Ude, Pratibha Vemulapalli, Danielle Walsh, Joerg Zehetner and Marc Zerey.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Jonathan Pearl

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Erika Fellinger

  3. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Brian Dunkin

  4. Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Eric Pauli

  5. Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA

    Thadeus Trus

  6. University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Jeffrey Marks

  7. The Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, PA, USA

    Robert Fanelli

  8. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Michael Meara

  9. Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Dimitrios Stefanidis

  10. Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, USA

    William Richardson

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Dr. Marks reports personal fees from Boston Scientific, personal fees from Olympus, personal fees from US Endoscopy, personal fees from WL Gore, personal fees from GI Supply, personal fees from Apollo Endosurgery, outside the submitted work. Dr. Fanelli reports other from Allurion Technologies, Inc., other from Respiratory Motion, Inc., other from Mozaic Medical, Inc., other from Cook, Inc.; he reports that he is a member of the Governing Board for SAGES, committee member for ASGE and a Director for the American Board of Surgery. All reported activity is outside the submitted work. Dr. Stefanidis reports personal fees from WL Gore, personal fees from Davol, outside the submitted work. Drs. Pearl, Fellinger, Dunkin, Pauli, Trus, Meara, Richardson have nothing to disclose.

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Pearl, J., Fellinger, E., Dunkin, B. et al. Guidelines for privileging and credentialing physicians in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Surg Endosc 30, 3184–3190 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-016-5066-8

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