Preeti Sharma

Prateek Sharma is an Indian American gastroenterologist that specializes in esophageal diseases and endoscopic treatments.

Early life and career

Sharma was born in Chandigarh, India. He graduated with a MBBS from M.S. University of Baroda in 1991 and from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1992. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and his gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

He is currently a Professor of Medicine and Program Director for the Gastroenterology fellowship program at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He is also the Section Chief of Gastroenterology at the Kansas City Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.

Sharma is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Scientific work

Sharma is best known for improving the diagnosis and management of GI diseases and cancer, specifically in esophageal diseases, GERD, Barrett's esophagus, advanced imaging, and endoscopic treatments. He is the current chair of the ASGE AI Task Force and the Director of the Global GI AI Annual Meeting. He also received the Elaine Blaylock Cancer Research Professorship at the University of Kansas Cancer Center in 2023.

Sharma has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. He has over 400 publications, including original articles and book chapters, and has been invited to present at over 500 major national and international meetings. He's also a reviewer and on the editorial board of the most leading gastroenterology journal and has been part of the development of key clinical guidelines for Barrett's esophagus. In addition, he has published several important textbooks: Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal cancer; Rise of acid reflux in Asia; Gastrointestinal Cancers.

Sharma has and continues to publish in several national and international journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Gastroenterology, and American Journal of Gastroenterology. He is a principal investigator and lead clinician on multiple clinical trials involving patients with Barrett's esophagus, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, and Artificial intelligence. He is also the leader of Barrett's esophagus study group; a global consortium of 7 academic institutions. He has developed a registry of patients with Barrett's esophagus, dysplasia and cancer prospectively followed at each of these centers to study the natural history, health care utilization, and evaluate factors associated with progression.

Awards and honours

2023 – American Gastroenterological Association Distinguished Educator Award

2022 – World Endoscopy Organisation Distinguished Educator Award

2017 – American Gastroenterological Association Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) Section Mentor Award

2016 – American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Research Mentor Award

2014 – American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Crystal Award recipient for Distinguished Endoscopic Research Mentoring.

Publications

• Sharma, P., Dent, J., Armstrong, D., Bergman, J. J., Gossner, L., Hoshihara, Y., ... & Vieth, M. (2006). The development and validation of an endoscopic grading system for Barrett's esophagus: the Prague C & M criteria. Gastroenterology, 131(5), 1392–1399 (241 citations).
• Sharma, P. (2009). Barrett's esophagus. New England journal of medicine, 361(26), 2548-2556 (181 citations).
• Sharma, P., Falk, G. W., Weston, A. P., Reker, D., Johnston, M., & Sampliner, R. E. (2006). Dysplasia and cancer in a large multicenter cohort of patients with Barrett's esophagus. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 4(5), 566–572 (102 citations).
• Sharma, P., Bansal, A., Mathur, S., Wani, S., Cherian, R., McGregor, D., ... & Weston, A. (2006). The utility of a novel narrow band imaging endoscopy system in patients with Barrett's esophagus. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 64(2), 167–175 (84 citations).
• Sharma, P., Weston, A. P., Topalovski, M., Cherian, R., Bhattacharyya, A., & Sampliner, R. E. (2003). Magnification chromoendoscopy for the detection of intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia in Barrett's oesophagus. Gut, 52(1), 24–27 (62 citations).
• Sharma, Prateek; Parasa, Sravanthi (August 2023). "ChatGPT and large language models in gastroenterology". Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 20 (8): 481–482.
• Sharma, Prateek; Hassan, Cesare (April 2022). "Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Upper Gastrointestinal Neoplasia". Gastroenterology. 162 (4): 1056–1066.
• Sharma, Prateek (16 August 2022). "Barrett Esophagus: A Review". JAMA. 328 (7): 663–671.