Dr. Jamidar is a professor of internal medicine (digestive diseases) and the director of endoscopy at Yale University. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and he went to medical school in Northern Ireland. Having completed his advanced fellowship at the University of Indiana, he became the director of ERCP at UCLA. He was recruited to Yale in 2004 to help develop its advanced endoscopy program.
Dr. Jamidar is involved in postgraduate education, and he has directed and co-directed over 50 live endoscopic workshops as well as numerous courses throughout the US. He has trained and mentored over 100 gastroenterology fellows, including around 20 advanced endoscopy fellows. He has dedicated much of his professional career to mastering ERCP, and he leads one of the largest tertiary referral centers in the Northeastern US.
Dr. Jamidar contributes to endoscopic research, and he written for over 100 peer reviewed publications. This includes articles on ERCP in pregnancy, confocal endomicroscopy and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. He has been active at ASGE, serving on numerous committees – including the DDW Annual Scientific Committee, the GIE Editorial Board Committee and the Nominations Committee. Dr. Jamidar has directed and participated in the ASGE fellows’ course, and he has been on the ASGE ERCP Boot Camp faculty. He strongly endorses the mission and values of the ASGE, and he is a longstanding member of the ASGE Circle of Light Society. He has received numerous citations as one of the best doctors in Connecticut, and he received the Connecticut Association of Physicians of Indian Origin Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.
Dr. Jamidar seeks to make advanced endoscopy more accessible globally. He has spent time in Kenya teaching endoscopy to local physicians and building medical infrastructure, he helped develop an endoscopy unit at a hospital in Nairobi and he has participated in endoscopic education in Turkey, China and India.