JKAN Gastroenterology PLLC

Dr. Nancy Lau graduated Magna Cum Laude with a M.D. degree from SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. She has been a Clinical Assistant Attending in Gastroenterology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and at St. Vincent's Medical Center.

Dr. Nancy Lau received her BA at Barnard College, Columbia University.  Before becoming a physician, she performed research at the Sloan-Kettering Institute.  As a staff physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, she authored a research grant for clinical research.  She has been widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals.  In addition to research, Dr. Lau was an instructor, leading Problem-Based Learning groups for medical students at the Cornell Medical School.  She was co-director of the Gastroenterology fellowship program at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Manhattan, and has trained many gastroenterology fellows.  

Dr. Lau completed her internship at Cornell Weill Medical Center, and residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York, followed by a gastroenterology fellowship at Columbia University’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt Medical Center, and a liver fellowship at the Mount Sinai Recanati Liver Diseases and Transplantation Center.  She has been named Fellow of the American Gastroenterology Association, and is a member of the Alpha-Omega-Alpha medical honor society.  She is the recipient of the prestigious American Medical Women's Association Janet M. Glasgow Achievement Award.

She brings extensive experience to her practice in a modern, upscale, fully AAAASF certified office-based surgery suite.  AAAASF accreditation means that her procedure surgery suite meets all safety and health standards as required, and is in full compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.  She holds active hospital privileges at NYU Langone Medical Center.