James D. Morris, MD., FACG, FACP, AGAF, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. He serves as a clinical educator actively seeing patients and engaged in educational activities for all levels of medical students, residents, and gastroenterology fellows. He currently serves as the Program Director for the Gastroenterology fellowship after previously serving as the Associate Program Director for three years. He also is involved in the medical curriculum for medical students as the Co-Course Director of the undergraduate medical student course in gastrointestinal and liver diseases. He has worked in the area of colon cancer screening education research and inflammatory bowel disease trials.