Amy Oxentenko, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF


Dr. Amy Oxentenko is a Professor of Medicine and currently serves as of Chair of Medicine for Mayo Clinic in Arizona and is Vice Chair of Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Practice Committee across the Mayo Clinic sites.  She completed her IM Residency, Chief Residency and GI Fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester, being recipient of the IM Residency’s Outstanding Achievement Award, GI Division’s Bargen Award, and Institutional Mayo Brothers’ Distinguished Fellowship Award. After joining the faculty at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, she served as Program Director of Mayo’s GI Fellowship and Advanced GI Fellowship Programs, later transitioning to the role of IM Residency Program Director and serving as Associate Chair for Education for GI and Associate Chair for Residency Programs for the Department of IM. She transitioned to her current Chair role in 2020.

She is past Chair of the American College of Gastroenterology’s Women in GI Committee, Chaired the ACG Educator Task Force, and has served on ACG’s Training, Educational Affairs, Professionalism, Credentialing and Finance Committees. She has Co-Created and Co-Chaired the ACG Train-the-Trainer USA Program and is past Vice Chair for the World GI Organization Train-the-Trainer Program. Dr. Oxentenko has served as a Senior Associate Editors for the American Journal of Gastroenterology. She has been a member of the ACG Board of Trustees since 2017 and is now a member of the ACG Executive Team, serving as Treasurer, with ACG Presidency anticipated in 2024.  She serves on the Executive Committee of the Internal Medicine ACGME Review Committee, serving as Vice Chair in 2022.

She has been the recipient of Mayo’s Department of IM Distinguished Contributions to Medical Education Award, Mayo Clinic School of GME Program Director of the Year Award, Minnesota’s ACP Laureate Award and was awarded the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Educator Award.  She was named the 2020 Woman Disruptor of the Year by Healio GI and has been named as one of the “top 100 alumni” by her undergraduate alma mater. She has used social media presence as a platform to advance issues in diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership lessons and research dissemination.