Andrew Sanderson II, M.D., is currently associate professor of medicine in the department of internal medicine/division of gastroenterology, associate program director of the gastroenterology fellowship program, and division chief of gastroenterology at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. From 2007 to 2009, he was a physician specialist in the department of internal medicine/gastroenterology at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and from 2008 to 2009, he was a clinical instructor in the department of internal medicine/division of gastroenterology at the Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif.
As a member of the diversity committee of the Society for Gastroenterological Association, Dr. Sanderson has worked on “Investing in the Future,” a pipeline project for underrepresented minority medical students and residents who are interested in gastroenterology as a career. He has worked with the National Medical Association’s Environmental Health and Bioterrorism Task Force to address the problem of lead in the District of Columbia’s water supply, as well as served as chair of a church-based volunteer program at a men’s shelter.
Dr. Sanderson received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., in 2001 and completed his internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia in 2004.