Meet the 3 newest members of the AGA Governing Board

Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH is the Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Chief of the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University, his MD from Harvard Medical School, and his MPH from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine residency, chief residency, and gastroenterology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, subsequently joining the faculty with a clinical focus on the genetics and prevention of gastrointestinal cancers. He also served as Program Director for the MGH Gastroenterology Fellowship.

At MGH, Dr. Chan has led research spanning population epidemiology, translational science, and clinical trials focused on the prevention and treatment of digestive diseases and gastrointestinal cancers. He serves as Team Lead of the Stand Up to Cancer Gastric Cancer Interception Team and co-Team Lead of the Cancer Grand Challenges Early-Onset Cancer Team (PROSPECT), co-funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Chan is an NCI Outstanding Investigator, an American Cancer Society Professor, and a member of both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Chan has served as a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors and the ad hoc committee of the National Cancer Advisory Board, and as past Chair of the Population Sciences Working Group of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2019, he received the AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research. Within the AGA, he has served as Clinical Research Councillor (2021-2024), Chair of the GI Oncology Section of the AGA Institute Council (2019-2021), Chair of the Research Policy Committee (2012-2014), member of the Clinical Practice and Quality Management Committee (2008-2011), and Special Section Editor for Gastroenterology (2016-22). In 2024, he received the AGA GI Oncology Section Distinguished Mentor Award.