So, first session is how to make a video, and how are you guys doing it? Schaefer, Philip, Raju, all Raju, trainees, Raju? Thank you, Amitabh. Thank you, Roblyne. Thank you, my friends. The only reason I came here is to see you all. All right. First of all, I'm really happy to have two exceptional colleagues, Schaefer Mark and Philip G. I don't know where Philip is. Yeah. Philip G. So, they're going to share with you what you need to learn in terms of producing a beautiful video. All right. And both of them have contributed to the video plenary, and they're excellent producers. So, what I would like to do is I would like to just take you through a little bit of a story. And if you want to, can anybody recognize who this gentleman is? Okay. Make sure that you keep this in your brain. This is Peter Kelsey. So, Peter Kelsey retired from MGH after maybe 30, 35 years of service at MGH, and he came up with this idea about producing videos to help trainees learn how to learn endoscopy. That concept came actually while he was in Louisiana attending a DDW. And he decided not to attend a DDW and sat in his hotel room with a borrowed computer from one of his colleagues. In early 2000, we couldn't buy computers that easily. And he came up with a game plan, and he created the Dave Project. I think Amitabh was there when we were reviewing the video submissions for the ASG Plenary Award, and we gave only one award. And that award was given to Peter for his concept about Dave Project. And in addition to creating Dave Project, Peter and Brenna actually took interest in training a lot of people. And I'm one of the beneficiaries of Peter, not only as my mentor, but as a very good friend, and probably one of the finest human beings you would ever meet in life. So, this was the first batch of ASG video editing scholars. I think at that time, we were doing it in the McDonald's campus. There was a Hamburger University. I don't know how many people know about Hamburger University. So that was in the Hamburger University. We did the first video editing course. So Amitabh was saying about the grant that we had. We had a huge grant. And everybody's flight was paid. They were picked up at the airport. Hotel was paid. And they went home with those big bags containing a computer loaded with video editing software and a video capturing system. So that was a real deal. And thanks to David, David Woods, at that time the president of Pentax, who gave the grant every year, $100,000. And Ann Marie, who took it personally to make this happen. And here is Peter. And you can see the logo of Dave Project. So that was a one and a half day course. It's not like the one hour session that we had on a weekend. So while you remember that, that was a one and a half day course. So for the first half day, Peter and Brenna taught step by step about how to do video editing. In the afternoon, the group was divided into several small groups. And we actually helped them learn. And I'm proud to say this was my first batch. And the majority of them have become now professors. Some of them have actually served as senior associate editors for journals. And now you also have the current editor-in-chiefs sitting there, right? But they may be looking a little bit different. So that's my first batch. This is one of my prize positions, OK? And I want to share here, this is Marilyn. So you can't even recognize Marilyn now. So Marilyn took personal interest in taking care of all the fellows with that program. And she does an exceptional job with every other program that ASG does. ASG runs not because of this building, but because of the people here who do great job. Then this 2009 crash came, right? We lost the grant. By 2012, we lost the grant. And after the crash came, Amitabh called me and said, hey, we're going to do the video editing course. I said, you know, where is the money? He said, you don't have money. I said, I taught all those guys on a PC with a Ulead software. And he said, no money, but I'll give you three hours to teach on a Thursday afternoon. And so we said, OK, we'll try to do that. And that's when I created everything on the YouTube. And I told, hey, we'll do it if everybody has a Mac so that they can actually learn to do the program and do it. So thanks to Amitabh and John, who actually invited me to Cleveland. And more than that, my first stop in this country was Cleveland. So Cleveland is very close to my heart. And this was the first batch. So I'm not promoting Macs here. But we said, hey, if you think outside the box, from a $100,000 grant to no grant, and you can still do the program, right? So our goal is very simple. In addition to being exceptional endoscopists, which you will all become, try to become a video journalist as well. So now you have opportunity to publish not only in GIE, you have VideoGIE. And VideoGIE now is listed in PubMed Central. So you can think, OK, I have a publication in a journal. Because when we started, there was no listing. So I had to beg a lot of people to submit. And that was the only print version of VideoGIE that I had to beg to make it happen so that I could hold it in my hand. And I hope that you all get excited and submit videos to VideoGIE. Not only that, but you should actually get into the habit of teaching what you do. And you can teach almost anybody. And by having a video, you will actually entice a lot of medical students come into gastroenterology and take up endoscopy. Endoscopy is a beautiful speciality. All right. Thank you.

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