Andrew Sanderson II, MD, MPH, FASGE

Andrew Sanderson, II, MD  was most recently Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Gastroenterology, Associate Program Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, and Division Chief, Gastroenterology at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC.  From 2007-2009, he was a physician specialist in the Department of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and from 2008-2009, he was a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Gastroenterology at the Harbor UCLA Medical Center, in Torrance, CA.  As a member of the diversity committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, he has worked on “Investing in the Future,” a pipeline project for underrepresented minority medical students and residents who are interested in GI as a career.  He has worked with the National Medical Association’s Environmental Health and Bioterrorism Task Force to address the problem of elevated levels of lead in the District of Columbia’s water supply, as well as Chair of a church-based volunteer program tasked to assist at a men’s shelter.  Dr. Sanderson received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC in 2001 and completed his internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia PA in 2004.