Hashem B El-Serag, MD, MPH

Biography

Dr. El-Serag obtained his medical degree from Al-Arab Medical University in Libya, completed his internship and residency in internal medicine (1995) at Greenwich Hospital, Yale University, Connecticut, and completed a fellowship in gastroenterology (1997) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he also earned a master's degree in public health (1998). In 1999, Dr. El-Serag joined the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, where he later became Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology & Hepatology (2007-2016). In 2017, he was appointed as Chair of the Department of Medicine at BCM, and in 2022 as Vice President for Learning Health System.

Dr. El-Serag's research focuses on the clinical epidemiology and outcomes of several digestive disorders, including Barrett's esophagus, esophageal adenocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma. He has obtained >70 funded research grants including current funding from NIH, VA and Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). He has >650 published papers (H-index 150) to his credit including those published in New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He has been named in the world's top 1% cited clinical researchers every year between 2014 and 2023. His national leadership roles included Editor-in-Chief for Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2012-2017) and President of American Gastroenterological Association (2019). Dr. El- Serag's has been selected into both the American Society for Clinical Investigators (ASCI) and American Association of Physicians (AAP).