Dr. Mergener’s areas of clinical expertise include interventional endoscopy, cancer prevention, biliary and pancreatic diseases. He is a recent member of the Governing Board of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), and the current Vice-Chair of the ASGE Foundation Board of Trustees.
In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Mergener is the co-founder of the GI Roundtable network, a large group of GI physician leaders and administrators who work together to assess the implications of healthcare reform on the practice of gastroenterology. Dr. Mergener also co-founded CareLedger (www.careledger.com), a health benefits platform that enables self-insured businesses to direct their employees to high quality, low cost providers for elective ambulatory medical services.
Dr. Mergener attended medical school in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, Germany and at Duke University and Harvard University in the U.S. He completed his MD-PhD thesis summa cum laude with 2008 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Harald zur Hausen at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg before returning to Duke University for his residency and a fellowship in gastroenterology, including additional training in interventional endoscopy. He received his MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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