Richard Peek to serve as president of international gastroenterology group (VUMC)

Richard Peek, MD, director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been elected vice president of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) — the specialty’s most prominent international organization. Dr. Peek, who holds the Mina Cobb Wallace Professorship of Immunology and professorships in Medicine and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, will serve in successive one-year terms as vice president, president-elect, president (2027-2028), and then past president.