Dr. Ian L. Taylor Named as New President of AGA

Ian L. Taylor, MD, PhD, has started his term as the new president of the American Gastroenterological Association with the conclusion of Digestive Disease Week 2010, and will focus on several issues, including the development of an organization-wide clinical data registry, as well as making certain gastroenterology clinicians and scientists are represented in the government's reform of the healthcare system, according to an AGA news release.

A longtime advocate of GI education, Dr. Taylor started working on the AGA Subcommittee on Training and Education in GI in 1987. He received a PhD in physiology from Liverpool Medical School and did his fellowship in gastroenterology at UCLA/Wadsworth VA Medical Center, according to the release.

Dr. Taylor currently serves as the senior vice president for biomedical education and research and dean of the College of Medicine at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has also served on committees and review panels for a number of organizations, including the AGA Institute, National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, according to the release.

In 2006, Dr. Taylor was honored with the AGA Outstanding Service Award, as well as the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award for his work during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Read the AGA's release on Dr. Ian Taylor.