Specialty: Gastroenterology
Dr. Korman completed his medical school education at the State University of New York in Syracuse, graduating Cum Laude and being elected to AOA, the honor medical society. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1978 to continue his training as a Clinical Associate in Gastroenterology at the National Institutes of Health Digestive Disease Branch. Dr. Korman then accepted a position as Professor of Medicine and Physiology at George Washington University School of Medicine.
In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Korman continues to teach gastroenterology and endoscopy weekly in the Gastroenterology Training Program at the VA/Georgetown Residency and Fellowship program. Dr. Korman has been past Chairman of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation Medical Advisory Board and past Chair of the Home Health Care Committee of the Jewish Social Services Agency. Nationally, Dr. Korman has been active in the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He chaired the committee responsible for the use of computers in endoscopy and served as a Counselor of the Society. Dr. Korman served for six years on the American Board of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology Sub-Section.
Dr. Korman has broad clinical interests in colonoscopy and endoscopy, colon cancer screening, ulcer and reflux disease. In addition, Dr. Korman has a special interest in diseases of the liver based on his experience with alcoholic and viral liver disease at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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