Organizations Founded

  • The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 1941
  • American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, 1950,
  • The Gastroenterology Research Group (American Gastroenterological Association), mid 1950s
  • The Gastro-Intestinal Research Foundation (GIRF), 1962
  • Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (formerly National Foundation for Research in Ulcerative Colitis), 1967
Official Publication of the American Gastroenterological Association, Vol. 49, No. 1 July 1965.
Official Publication of the American Gastroenterological Association, Vol. 49, No. 1 July 1965.

Kirsner, Joseph B. Papers, Box 55, Folder 3, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

The American Gastroenterological Association named Joseph B. Kirsner, M.D. the president of the American Gastroenterological Association, 1965