Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship

Overview

The Faculty Career Development in Advanced Endoscopy position is a non-ACGME Fellowship open to current or recently graduated fellows in gastroenterology. The interventional endoscopy faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is committed to providing a comprehensive education experience in advanced endoscopic techniques to motivated individuals who interested in pursuing an academic career.

Clinical experience

The program consists of a structured one-year third tier faculty career development program during which the candidate will gain hands-on experience in a broad range of advanced techniques including:

Therapeutic ERCP
Diagnostic EUS
Interventional EUS
Luminal stenting
Cyst drainage
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
Cryotherapy
Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR)
Device-assisted enteroscopy

Research experience

Faculty will be provided with research mentoring and will be expected to conduct novel, meaningful research during the year with presentation of their findings at national meetings with eventual publication in peer-reviewed journals. Ample opportunity exists for collaboration with departments outside of the interventional endoscopy service.

Requirements

Applicants should have completed an ACGME-accredited academic gastroenterology fellowship within five (5) years of application. Those candidates with experience in clinical research and an interest in academic medicine are encouraged.

How to apply

We are participating in the ASGE AEF Match program. Apply to the program

Curriculum vitae
One-page personal statement delineating your interest in interventional endoscopy and career goals
A minimum of two (2) and no more than three (3) letters of recommendation sent directly by the author

For more information, contact

Stephen Kim, MD
Director, Faculty Career Development in Advanced Endoscopy
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
[email protected]

International Physician Observership Program

For more information, contact Dr. Stephen Kim at [email protected]

Current Advanced Endoscopy Fellow

Ali Wakil, MD
Health Sciences Clinical Instructor of Medicine
Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine

Dr. Wakil earned his medical degree with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Bahrain. He then moved to the United States and completed his internal medicine residency training at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland—a clinical affiliate of Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he completed his specialized gastroenterology rotations and served as chief resident. Following residency, Dr. Wakil completed a fellowship in transplant hepatology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), where he subsequently joined the faculty as an assistant professor of medicine and attending transplant hepatologist. During his two years on faculty at Rutgers, his dedication to medical education earned him a prestigious nomination for the Golden Apple Teaching Award. He then went on to complete his gastroenterology fellowship at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, a clinical affiliate of Mount Sinai and the Icahn School of Medicine. Demonstrating exceptional academic excellence, Dr. Wakil scored in the 99th percentile nationally on his gastroenterology training examinations during all three years of his fellowship. Additionally, he led his team to win first place in the prestigious national ACG EndoTitan competition. He remains highly active in academic medicine, having presented multiple research projects at national meetings and published numerous peer-reviewed articles and medical book chapters.