{"id":43065,"date":"2017-01-25T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?page_id=43065"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T00:09:14","slug":"alumni-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/offices-services\/alumni\/spotlight\/alumni-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span><strong>Jerome Waye, MD<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span><strong>Class of: <\/strong>1958<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-01-at-11.28.35-AM-509x636.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109255 alignright\" width=\"335\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-01-at-11.28.35-AM-509x636.png 509w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-01-at-11.28.35-AM.png 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Specialty<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGastroenterology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current practice <\/strong><br \/>\nRetired<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most recent accomplishment?<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter graduating in 1958, I have been at Mount Sinai in NY, retiring on the last day of 2019, and becoming a Professor Emeritus. Gastroenterology has been my specialty and Colonoscopy my special interest. Many advances in colonoscopy are my developments, and I have written 7 books while in private practice as well as published just under 300 scientific papers. I have been president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American College of Gastroenterology and the World Endoscopy Organization. I joined the full-time staff at Mount Sinai in 2014. After retirement, I began to teach the techniques of upper endoscopy and colonoscopy to doctors in Uganda, Africa by zoom, a novel use of this technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hobbies outside work?<\/strong><br \/>\nI just had my 90th birthday, and the ASGE has established an Endowment Fund in my honor with a named lectureship during each forthcoming meeting at Digestive Disease Week, the annual meeting held by GI doctors. I am now working on a revised edition of my leading book: <em>Colonoscopy: Principles and Practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome Waye, MD Class of: 1958 Specialty Gastroenterology Current practice Retired Most recent accomplishment? After graduating in 1958, I have been at Mount Sinai in NY, retiring on the last day of 2019, and becoming a Professor Emeritus. Gastroenterology has been my specialty and Colonoscopy my special interest. Many advances in colonoscopy are my developments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"parent":93581,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43065"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126495,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43065\/revisions\/126495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=43065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}