For over ten years, the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists has sponsored a collaborative educational program with colleagues from Central and South America; and for the first time in 2012, the Society of Abdominal Radiology* will participate in this educational program. This program, the International Educational Conference, sponsors the expenses of a SAR faculty team as they attend and participate in a national or regional radiological conference.

Over the years, the SGR faculty teams have traveled to Guatemala, Peru, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Over 50 different SGR members have participated as faculty members in this program. They have returned from their SGR-sponsored international educational travel energized and inspired by the intellectual and cultural exchange, and it is my hope that the SAR faculty has the same experience, as this program is implemented into the our new Society.

2011 Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
C. Dan Johnson, MD
Giles Boland, MD
Tracy Jaffe, MD
Jorge A. Soto, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD (Visiting Professor)

2010 Cape Town
Jay Heiken, MD
Michael Federle, MD
Jonathan Kruskal, MD
Erik Paulson, MD (Visiting Professor)
Kumar Sandrasegaran, MD
Sat Somers, MB ChB (Richard H. Marshak Award)

2009 Guatemala
Peter Mueller, MD
Allen Cohen, MD
Koenraad Mortele, MD (Visiting Professor)
Francis Scholz, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)
Ali Shirkhoda, MD

2008 Chile
Richard Gore, MD
Koenraad Mortele, MD
Dushyant Sahani, MD (Visiting Professor)
Andrew Taylor, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)
Bachir Taouli, MD

2007 Argentina
Richard Baron, MD
Douglas Katz, MD
Judy Yee, MD (Visiting Professor)
Giovanna Casola, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)
Erik Paulson

2006 Brazil
Angela Levy, MD (Visiting Professor)
Benjamin Yeh, MD
Brian Lucey, MD
Pablo Ros, MD
Dean D.T. Maglinte, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)

2005 Mexico
Michael Macari, MD (Visiting Professor)
Robert Halvorsen, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)
Spencer Gay, MD
Robert Clark, MD
Dennis Balfe, MD

2004
The meeting was moved to the spring of 2005. (No faculty participated in 2004.)

2003 Uruguay
Sharlene Teefey, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)
Kyunghee Cho, MD
William Mayo-Smith, MD
Jonathan Kruskal, MD (Visiting Professor)
Marc Levine, MD

2002 Ecuador
Kedar N. Chintapalli, MD
Mary T. Keogan, MD (Visiting Professor)
Pablo R. Ros, MD
Richard B. Towbin, MD
Ellen L. Wolf, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)

2001 Dominican Republic
Ann S. Fulcher, MD (Visiting Professor)
Bruce R. Javors, MD
Jaime Tisnado, MD
Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)

2000 Chile
Richard L. Baron, MD
Peter L. Cooperberg, MD
Gerald D. Dodd, III, MD (Visiting Professor)
Richard M. Gore, MD
Eric VanSonnenberg, MD (Richard H. Marshak Award)

1999 Peru
Emil J. Balthazar, MD
Richard M. Gore, MD
Jay P. Heiken, MD (Visiting Professor)
Pablo R. Ros, MD
Edward T. Stewart, MD

1998 Guatemala
Emil J. Balthazar, MD
C. Dan Johnson, MD
Marc S. Levine, MD
Edward T. Stewart, MD
Gladys M. Torres, MD