Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL
Douglas R. Morgan, MD, MPH, FACG, serves as the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He served as Chair of the ACG International Relations Committee from 2016-2019. His career focus is cancer prevention in Hispanic-Latino populations in Central America and the U.S. His central research interest is gastric adenocarcinoma in the high incidence regions of Central America. The NIH-funded research programs encompass gastric cancer host-microbe genetic epidemiology, technology innovation, and chemoprevention of premalignant lesions. Dr. Morgan received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned an MPH at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Morgan has held faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt University. He served as a Peace Corps engineer in Central America prior to medical school.
Sunday, October 23, 2022
2:25 PM – 2:45 PM ET