Post written by Todd H. Baron, MD, MASGE, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, and Phillip S. Ge, MD, FASGE, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

Please join iGIE in celebrating the career of Dr Todd Baron, a legendary pioneer who dared to break rules to expand the boundaries of endoscopy. Please see the full Historical Considerations article and please watch the video interview.

When you are done, take a look at other published Historical Considerations articles in iGIE:

• Sergey V. Kantsevoy – the history of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (March 2025)
• Gottumukkala S. Raju – in celebration of endoscopy technicians (December 2024)
• Stavros N. Stavropoulos – the history of peroral endoscopic myotomy (September 2024)
• Hiroyuki Aihara – endoscopic resection from East to West (June 2024)
• Kenneth J. Chang – the history of EUS/FNA (March 2024)
• Peter B. Cotton – the history of ERCP (September 2023)
• Patrick M. Lynch – the story of Lynch syndrome (June 2023)
• Bennett E. Roth – the history of the Roth Net (March 2023)
• Christopher C. Thompson – the history of bariatric endoscopy (December 2022)

Receiving the Rudolf Schindler Award from American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy President Bret Petersen in 2023.

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