Dr. Uzma Siddiqui received her MD at the University of Miami and followed by internal medicine residency training at George Washington University. She then completed her gastroenterology fellowship training at NYU in 2004 and Advanced Endoscopy fellowship at Yale in 2005. After staying on the Yale faculty for almost 7 years, she joined the University of Chicago in 2012. She is currently a Professor of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics (CERT) and the Advanced Endoscopy Training Program.
Her clinical practice is focused on advanced endoscopy procedures related to pancreaticobiliary disease and gastrointestinal oncology (EUS, ERCP, EMR and ESD). She is a committed educator and in addition to being invited course faculty at many courses nationally and internationally, she has organized >30 conferences and has >100 publications that have contributed to the field of advanced endoscopy. She has also trained >15 advanced fellows that have gone on to successful careers throughout the country and in Canada, Israel and Spain. Furthermore, Dr. Siddiqui has earned recognition as a founding member and current vice president of the international organization, Women in Endoscopy (WIE) and was awarded the Healio Woman GI Disruptor of the Year Award in 2019. At DDW 2023, she codirected the ASGE Annual Postgraduate Course and was named a winner of the ASGE Master Endoscopist Award.