Douglas R. Morgan, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director UNC Center for Latino Health (CELAH)
Director UNC Program in Nicaragua – UNC IGHID
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Douglas Morgan attended Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University . He completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of California , San Francisco . He earned a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of California , Berkeley .

Dr. Morgan has been on Faculty at the University of North Carolina over the past six years, with the UNC Center for Esophageal Diseases. He directs the Capsule Endoscopy and Enteroscopy programs at UNC. He has clinical and research interests in global health, gastrointestinal disease epidemiology, H. pylori and gastric cancer, and endoscopy imaging technology.

Dr. Morgan is Director of the UNC Center for Latino Health, with extensive experience in Latin America and with Hispanic-Latino populations. Prior to medical school, he served as a Peace Corps engineer in Honduras. Currently, he directs the gastric cancer epidemiology program in western Honduras, with a focus on host genetic, bacterial virulence, and dietary factors (NIH and Gates Foundation funding). He also serves as PI for the GI epidemiology and functional GI disease program in collaboration with the University of Nicaragua and Latin America collaborators. The UNC Center for Latino Health provides the infrastructure for the clinical care of Spanish-speaking patients within the UNC Healthcare, as well as for research and teaching initiatives.