MEET OUR FACULTY

Course Director

Gary Chmielewski, MD, FACS

Medical Director of Robotic Thoracic Surgery,
AdventHeatlh Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgeons Group, AdventHealth Orlando

Mariam Naveed, MD

Associate Designated Institutional Officer (ADIO), Graduate Medical Education,
Program Director, GI and Hepatology Fellowship, AHMG Gastroenterology, Altamonte Springs, FL

Hafiz Muzaffar Akbar Khan, MD

Medical Director, AdventHealth Center for Interventional Endoscopy,
Tampa, Florida

Reagan Taylor PA-C

Lead APP | General Surgery AdventHealth Medical Group,
APP Director Digestive Health Institutes
AdventHealth Faculty

Irteza Inayat, MD, MHCM

Vice President, Gastroenterology AdventHealth, Florida Speciality Network

Andrew B. Taylor, FACHE

SVP & Chief Strategy Officer AdventHealth Central Florida Division
Invited Faculty

Enrique F. Elli, MD, FACS

Chair division of Advanced GI and Bariatric Surgery Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida

Leila Kia, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center, Chicago, IL

Rishi Naik, MD, MSCI, FACG

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director, GI Fellowship Vanderbilt Health
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Center for Swallowing and Esophageal Disorders

Sharona Ross, MD, FACS

Foregut and HPB Surgeon, Professor of Surgery College of Medicine, University of Central Florida
President, Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons (SLS) 2025, AdventHealth, Tampa, Florida

Asad ur Rahman, MD, FACP

Medical Director of the IBD Center at Cleveland Clinic Florida,
Associate Program Director GI fellowship Cleveland Clinic Florida

Amol Sharma, MD, MS, FACG, AGAF

Donald O. Castell Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology, Division of GI & Hepatology Dept of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina

Irene Sonu, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations
Stanford University School of Medicine

Arvind Trindade, MD, FACG, FASGE

Professor of Medicine, Rutgers University, RWJMS VP GI Clinical Operations
Co-Chief of Endoscopy, RWJUH Director of the Barrett’s Esophagus Program

Michael Ujiki, MD, FACS, FASGE, FAFS

Stanton and Margaret Rogers Palmer, Chair of Surgery, NorthShore Hospitals,
Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Moderators

Mathew Doble, M.D.

Board-Certified General Surgeon Specializing in Minimally Invasive, Bariatric and Foregut Surgery
Surgical Associates of Central Florida, Winter Park, FL

Ernesto Robalino Gonzaga, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Neurogastroenterology and Motility
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Ehsan Rafiq, MD

Managing Partner Center for Digestive Health Orlando