William D. Carey Award for Boston University School of Medicine professor

Professor receives award from American College of Gastroenterology

Francis A. Farraye, MD, MSc, FACG, FASGE, a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and clinical director in the Gastroenterology Section at Boston Medical Center (BMC) recently received the William D. Carey Award from the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). The award is reserved for an exceptional individual who has served the Board and the College with distinction.

In being selected for the award, Farraye has shown clear demonstration of outstanding contribution to the College such as service within leadership positions, participation in educational efforts, and committee service or participation in research related activities. In addition he has shown a strong history of meritorious service to the Board of Governors. Farraye also served as co-director for the ACG "What's New in Pharmacology" course offered at the ACG meeting with 430 participants, breaking all previous attendance records.

Farraye's clinical interests are in the care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, the management of colon polyps and colorectal cancer, as well as endoscopy in patients after bariatric surgery. He is studying vitamin D absorption in patients with IBD, the management and diagnosis of dysplasia and cancer in patients with IBD, and predictors of pouchitis after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA). In the area of colorectal cancer, he is examining the role of hyperplastic polyps as an alternative pathway in the development of colorectal cancer.

Farraye received his medical doctorate from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He completed an internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and holds a masters degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to his appointments at BMC and BUSM, Farraye was a clinical gastroenterologist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates for 12 years and on the staff at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

A frequent speaker and invited lecturer on topics on the diagnosis and management of IBD, Farraye has authored or coauthored over 200 original scientific manuscripts, chapters, reviews, and abstracts. His work has been published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA, among others. He is a coeditor for the text Bariatric Surgery: A Primer for your Medical Practice, and an associate editor for Therapy for Digestive Disorders. Farraye is also coeditor of Curbside Consultation in IBD: 49 Clinical Questions, a concise reference book that provides concise and practical answers to questions that are not often answered by other IBD references.

Farraye is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the ACG. Nationally, he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees in the ACG. He has served as the AGA representative on the National Colorectal Cancer Round Table as Co-Chair of the Standards Committee and as Chair of the Lower Gastrointestinal Disorders Section of the Annual Scientific Program Committee of the ASGE. He is a member of the ASGE Technology Committee, CCFA Professional Education Committee, and the Chapter Medical Advisory Committee for the New England CCFA, where he is a past chairman. The New England CCFA named Farraye "Humanitarian of the Year" in 2003.