Shatz Lecture

Visiting Professor Lecture

Dr. Burton A. Shatz was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended both undergraduate and medical school at Washington University before completing his postgraduate education in internal medicine at Jewish Hospital in 1947 and subsequently a Gastroenterology fellowship at Barnes Hospital. Dr. Shatz joined the attending staff of Jewish Hospital in 1949 and remained an active consultant and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Shatz directed the administration of the Jewish Hospital Endoscopy Laboratory and invested considerable time and effort in support of the Gastroenterology training program and its outpatient clinic.

During his career he introduced many new endoscopic techniques to his practice in St. Louis and contributed to the endoscopic training of over 200 Gastroenterology and Colorectal fellows. In addition, Dr. Shatz authored 25 original publications, most dealing with gastrointestinal endoscopy. Throughout the course of his career he received a number of awards including the Washington University Medical School Faculty Alumni Award, The American Cancer Society Leadership Award and the Distinguished Clinician Award from the American Gastroenterologic Association and the Missouri Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America honored him with the 1999 “Physician of the Year” Award. Dr. Shatz remained active in clinical medicine and endoscopic practice at Barnes-Jewish Hospital until his death in 2005. He is survived by his wife Audrey, his daughter, who teaches art at the Art Institute of Boston and his two sons and a grandson, each of whom have become physicians.

Upcoming – 23th Annual Burton A. Shatz Visiting Professor (2022) – TBD

Previous Visiting Professors

Year
YEAR	VISITING SHATZ PROFESSOR	TITLE
2021	Darwin Conwell, MD, MS Director, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition The Ohio State University	Chronic Pancreatitis: How to Diagnose and Manage Complications
2020	Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF, FASGE Emeritus Professor University of Michigan	Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Cysts
2019	James D. Lewis, MD, MSCE Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Clinical Research Program Associate Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania	Dietary Recommendations for Patients with IBD: Where’s the Beef
2018	Stuart Jon Spechler, MD Chief, Division of Gastroenterology Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas Co-Director, Center for Esophageal Research Baylor Scott & White Research Institute	“New Concepts in GERD and Eosinophilic Esophagitis”
2017	Carmelo Scarpignato, M.D., F.R.C.P Professor of Pharmacology & Therapeutics Associate Professor of Gastroenterology Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist & Gastroenterologist Head, Clinical Pharmacology & Digestive Pathophysiology Unit School of Medicine & Dentistry University of Parma, Italy	“NSAID-associated Upper and Lower GI Injury: Mechanisms and Prevention”
2016	Herbert DuPont, M.D. Professor of Medicine University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine	“Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection”
2015	Helen Shields, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief, Division of Medical Communications; Senior Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital	“Disparities in the Evaluation of Patients with Rectal Bleeding 40 years and older”
2014	John Allen, MD Professor of Medicine, Clinical Chief of Digestive Disease Yale School of Medicine	“Academic Medical Centers: The King is Dead, Long Live the King”
2013	Lawrence Brandt, MD Professor of Medicine and Surgery Albert Einstein College of Medicine	“Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Gastrointestinal Diseases”
2012	Bruce E. Sands, MD, MS Chief, Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine	“Changing Paradigms in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease”
2011	Charles N. Bernstein, MD Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology Research Head, Section of Gastroenterology, Professor of Medicine University of Manitoba-Canada	“The Environment and IBD: Lessons from Global Variations”
2010	David Lieberman, MD Chief, Division of Gastroenterology; Professor of Medicine Oregon Health and Science University	“Colorectal Cancer: Controversies in Screening, Surveillance and Prevention”
2009	Peter H.R. Green, MD Professor of Clinical Medicine, Director of Celiac Disease Center Columbia University, New York	“Celiac disease: what is the big deal?”
2008	Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD Director, Division of Allergy and Immunology; Professor of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center	“Pathogenesis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis”
2007	Eamonn M.M. Quigley, MD Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology National University of Ireland, Cork	“Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An inflammatory hypothesis!”
2006	Philip S. Schoenfeld, MD, MEd, MSc Associate Professor of Medicine University of Michigan School of Medicine	“An evidence based approach to the management of irritable bowel syndrome: Does bacterial overgrowth lead to IBS symptoms?”
2005	David A. Ahlquist, MD Professor of Medicine, Consultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine	“Innovative approaches to colorectal cancer screening: Royal flush or drop in the bucket?”
2004	Paul B. Watkins, MD Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Director, General Clinical Research Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	“Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI): Genomics to Patients”
2003	Wilfred M. Weinstein, MD Professor of Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles	“New Gut Diseases and Old Ones Rediscovered”
2002	Theodore M. Bayless, MD Director, Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center; Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	“Crohn’s Disease: a Phenotype-Genotype Journey”
2001	Michael Camilleri, MD Professor of Medicine and Physiology; Consultant in Gastroenterology, Physiology and Biophysics Mayo Clinic	“Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Current Concepts and New Pharmacological Treatments”
2000	Paul Swain, MD Head of the Department of Clinical Gastroenterology and Director of Endoscopy The Royal London Hospital	“Innovations in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy”