New Appointments to the Board of Editors

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Pankaj Jay Pasricha, MD, and Ralf Kiesslich, MD, PhD, have joined the Gastroenterology Board of Editors, effective November 2009. Dr Pasricha will serve as an Associate Editor for manuscripts related to imaging and technology, and will assist in the areas of pancreatology and enteric neurobiology. He will also share co-editorship of the “Imaging and Advanced Technology” section with Dr Kiesslich.

Dr Pasricha is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his MD degree from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 1982. Subsequently, he trained in internal medicine and pulmonology at Georgetown University–DC General Hospital and Tufts–New England Medical Center, respectively. Thereafter, he trained in Gastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and then stayed on faculty at The Johns Hopkins University as Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy and Associate Director of the Marvin Schuster Center for Gastrointestinal Motility. In 1997, Dr Pasricha assumed the Chief of the Gastroenterology Division at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he held the Bassel and Frances Blanton Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine until August 2007, before assuming his current position at Stanford. Dr Pasricha's laboratory is focused on molecular mechanisms of visceral pain and restoration of enteric neural function utilizing novel strategies including neural stem cell transplants. His clinical interests include gastrointestinal motility disorders and abdominal pain as well as the development of novel endoscopic procedures and devices. He is currently the chair of the National Institutes of Health-funded multi-center Gastroparesis Consortium.

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• Ralf Kiesslich, MD, PhD

Dr Kiesslich is head of the endoscopic unit at the First Department of Medicine of the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) in Mainz, Germany. He graduated from JGU in 1996 and in the same year, he completed his medical training at JGU. He joined the First Department of Medicine at JGU in 2000 after finishing his internship at St. Hildegardis Hospital in Mainz. He obtained board certification in Internal Medicine in 2003 and board certification in Gastroenterology in 2004. His PhD thesis (2004) dealt with early recognition of cancers using chromo- and confocal laser endoscopy. Dr Kiesslich's main research interests are new imaging modalities and new treatment options in gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Dr Kiesslich serves on the council of the German Society of Gastroenterology and leads the section of research in gastrointestinal endoscopy. His research has been published extensively and he has received several prizes including the Don Wilson Award (American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) and the Martin Guelzow Award (German Society of Gastroenterology).