His primary interest is in cancer epidemiology and prevention in Hispanic-Latin populations, with a particular focus on stomach cancer in Central American. globally, gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality, and the leading infection-associated cancer. Morgan attended Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of California, San Francisco, with a master’s degree in public health in epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also has received the Ohtli Award on behalf of the UNC Center for Latin Health, where he was director from 2007-2011, for innovations in health care in the service of the North Carolina Hispanic-Latino Population. The Ohtli Award is the highest honor from the government of Mexico.