UND-based team wins American College of Gastroenterology SCOPY Award
Congratulations to the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences research team on receiving the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) SCOPY Award (Service Award for Colorectal Cancer Outreach, Prevention and Year-Round Excellence) for their outstanding research project: “Performance of an Artificial Intelligence Derived EHR Embedded Colorectal Cancer Risk Score for Predicting Incident CRC at the Population Level: A Large Health System Experience.”
The award was given to the following individuals in-person at the ACG annual meeting on Oct. 12, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn.:
- Dr. Hussam Almasri – Internal Medicine Residency graduate and gastroenterology fellow at the University of Minnesota.
- Dr. Priya Karthikeyan – Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and hepatologist at Sanford Health Fargo.
- Dr. Emilee Ohman – M.D. Class of 2026 and internal medicine resident at Abbot Northwestern in Minneapolis, Minn.
- Dr. John Bassett – Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine; Chair of Gastroenterology Department; and Medical Director of Hepatology at Sanford Health Fargo.
Not pictured, but instrumental to the development of the colorectal cancer (CRC) risk score, was Max Weaver. Additional contributions to this work were made by Kayla Geyer, academic project manager at Sanford Health Fargo, and fourth-year UND medical student Charles Garrity.
The SCOPY Award recognizes submissions that demonstrate excellence in scientific accuracy, educational value, public health impact, and originality. This recognition highlights the team’s innovative application of artificial intelligence and electronic health record data to improve population-level colorectal cancer risk prediction and support efforts in cancer prevention and early detection.
