MARCH 10, 2021

After Retirement, Master Endoscopist Not Ready to Hang Up His Scopes

What does retirement look like after a long career as one of the country’s leading endoscopists? For Jerome D. Waye, MD, it looks like an opportunity to broaden the scope, so to speak, by expanding international instruction to any place that has high-speed internet access, beginning with a small village in Uganda.

Waye, 88, an emeritus professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City, esteemed by colleagues and GI societies for pioneering techniques in colonoscopy