Maltese doctor Michael Camilleri has been appointed the 110th president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Dr Camilleri, who is based at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnestosa, has served the association in many capacities throughout the past 25 years, particularly in the editorial realm.

He was the creator and first editor of AGA’s flagship clinical journal, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the associate editor of Gastroenterology from 1996 to 2001 and the editor of AGA Perspectives from 2007 to 2010.

He also served as chair of the AGA Institute Council Neurogastroenterology Section, after which he received AGA’s 2015 Neurogastroenterology Section Research Mentor award.

Dr Camilleri studied at the University of Malta Medical School and completed a two-year residency programme at St Luke’s Hospital, before attending the Hammersmith Hospital Royal Postgraduate School of Medicine in London, for research and clinical training in internal medicine and gastroenterology.

He received a master’s degree in physiology and medicine from the University of London and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians.

Following his work in London, in 1983 he took a research fellow position in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, where he still works today.

He is currently the Atherton and Winifred W. Bean professor of medicine, physiology and pharmacology, and the executive dean of development at Mayo Clinic, where he specialises in gastrointestinal motility.