Willis Parsons, M.D.
Course Director, Medical Director
Dr. Parsons earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed a residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, followed by an advanced endoscopy fellowship at Maine Medical Center, Portland. Currently he is the Medical Director of the Gastroenterology Center at Northwest Community Hospital (NCH), Arlington Heights, Illinois, specializing in advanced interventional GI procedures and the management of GERD and pancreaticobiliary disease. He has hosted over 150 live endoscopy courses and has performed more than 35,000 advanced endoscopic procedures.

Christopher Chapman, M.D.
Guest Speaker
Dr. Chapman earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at The University of Chicago. He has been investigating and evaluating interventional endoscopic techniques and tools used to treat gastrointestinal disorders and obesity. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including the Lancet, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Clinical Endoscopy. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Endoscopy, Director of Bariatric and Metabolic Endoscopy at Rush University.

Vivek Kaul, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, NYSGEF
Guest Speaker
Dr Vivek Kaul is the Segal-Watson Professor of Medicine (and former Division Chief) in the Gastroenterology & Hepatology Division at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His focus is Therapeutic Endoscopy, Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound, advanced ERCP, and esophageal endotherapy for Barrett’s & Esophageal Cancer. He is a PI and/or co-investigator on several trials in endoscopy, pancreatic and esophageal disease. Dr. Kaul serves on several national committees with the ASGE and the ACG. He is Chair of the ASGE Reimbursement Committee and Chair of the World Gastroenterology Organization’s Endoscopy Committee. He serves on the WGO Governing Council and will be the incoming WGO Secretary General starting Jan 2024. Dr. Kaul is the alternate ASGE RUC advisor to the AMA and serves on several task forces including the ACG GI-On Demand task force, ACG AI task force, ACG Ergonomics task force, and the ASGE advanced endoscopy subspecialty certification task force. He is a member of the WGO Global Climate Change & Green Endoscopy Working Group. Dr. Kaul is a reviewer for several journals, and has published extensively in the field of interventional endoscopy among other aspects of Gastroenterology.

Natalie Cosgrove, M.D.
Guest Speaker
Natalie Cosgrove is an interventional endoscopist at the Advent Health Orlando Center for Interventional Endoscopy (CIE), where she is also the Medical Director of Clinical Quality and Safety in Gastroenterology. She received her doctorate of medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and did her internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia. She completed her gastroenterology fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and interventional endoscopy training at Washington University in St. Louis. Her main clinical interests include complex pancreaticobiliary diseases, management of pancreatic fluid collections, endo-hepatology, and patient safety and quality improvement.

Andy Tau, M.D.
Guest Speaker
Dr. J. Andy Tau graduated from Harvard and completed all his medical and GI training at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center (Houston, Texas). Dr. Tau was awarded the Travis County Medical Society Ruth M. Bain Young Physician of the Year in 2021 as voted on by fellow physicians. Dr. Tau is published in recognized medical journals including Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He is currently a partner at Austin Gastroenterology, a GI Hospitalist, and the Ascension Seton Network Chief of Gastroenterology in Austin, Texas. His special interests include hemostasis, endoscopic vacuum therapy of perforations, and social media-based learning via #GITwitter (@DrBloodandGuts).