Atilla Ertan

Biography

Dr. Atilla Ertan earned his medical degree in 1963 from the Ankara University Medical School in Turkey. Following completion of his fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, he was professor of medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans from 1980-90 where he was named Chief of the Gastroenterology Section from 1984-90 and Interim Chairman of Medicine Department from 1988-90. Then, he was Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the Methodist Hospital/ Baylor College of Medicine from 1990 to 2001. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at both Baylor College of Medicine as well as Weill-Cornell Medical College. He is now professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Medical Director of the Gastroenterology Center of Excellence and Digestive Disease Center at the Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center.

Research Interest

Dr. Ertan has been active in various national and international gastroenterology societies. For many years he served on the AGA’s Education Committee (1994-97), the International Liaison Committee (1999-03), the ACG’s International Relations Committee (Chair, International GI Training Subcommittee, 1994-98) and the Educational Affairs Committee (Chair 1999-01). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of five different medical journals.