Thiruvengadam Muniraj, MD, associate professor of medicine (digestive diseases), Yale School of Medicine; director of the Yale Medicine Pancreatic Diseases Program; director of bariatric endoscopy, and associate chief of Digestive Health, Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), has been appointed associate editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIE), the official journal of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Muniraj’s five-year term began in January 2023.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is the foremost international publication in the field of endoscopy. According to its website, the journal provides “the highest quality endoscopic information at the point of care and at the cutting edge of science… as well as exciting new techniques, video cases and society guidelines.”
Muniraj was pleased to join the editorial board after serving as a reader and peer reviewer for many years. “Most advanced endoscopists and endoscopists look up to this journal for all cutting-edge research and clinically relevant papers, so I've been reading this journal since my training,” he said.
In his new position, Muniraj is responsible for reading manuscripts, upholding scientific integrity, and guiding the journal’s policies and scope.
His work as associate editor meets his goal as a patient-oriented clinician researcher: to promote the health of patients. “We want to keep publishing high quality, original articles, so that readers, gastroenterologists mostly, may use these research findings and in their own clinical practice to improve the lives of our patients. The core idea is to get to the right audience so that it translates into meaningful clinical practice,” said Muniraj.
Muniraj is an advanced endoscopist specializing in pancreatic diseases, and he oversees several initiatives for YNHHS. His research investigating pancreatic diseases and interventional endoscopy has been published in several journals, including Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Since forming one of the nation’s first sections of hepatology and then gastroenterology over 50 years ago, Yale’s Section of Digestive Diseases has had an enduring impact on research and clinical care in gastrointestinal and liver disorders. To learn more about their work, visit Digestive Diseases.