We are delighted and honored to come together and introduce our friend and colleague, the incoming president of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute, Dr M. Bishr Omary, who starts his 1-year term at Digestive Disease Week 2020. It took 5 of us (and more beyond us) to compile all of this information because each of us has had the joy of working closely with Bishr for at least 10 years (in some cases 30 years!) and have known him in very different settings.