About the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
The Gastroenterology Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital provides a rigorous foundation in patient care, research, and teaching for talented individuals committed to careers in academic gastroenterology.
Meet the current fellows and recent graduates of the Gastroenterology Fellowship at Mass General.
Meet Our Current Fellows
(Listed by starting year)
2023
Name: Madeline (Maddie) Berschback
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar Award
Clinical/Research Interests: Nutrition, Steatotic Liver Disease, Quality Improvement
Name: Kelly Buchanan
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Chief Medical Resident MGH Internal Medicine 2024-2025
Clinical/Research Interests: Disorders of gut-brain interaction, intersection of gut-brain biology and metabolic syndrome
Name: Maryam Ibrahim
Medical School: American University of Beirut
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Finishing residency with 3 first author papers and one book chapter on MASLD
Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical and epidemiologic research in MASLD and GI cancers, endoscopy
Name: Peiyun (Penny) Ni
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Developing prediction models of obesity trends in children and adults to improve obesity prevention strategies
Clinical/Research Interests: Obesity-related GI disorders, computational biology
Name: Brooke Rice, MD
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Residency: Boston Medical Center
Notable Achievement: My research on non-heavy alcohol use and hepatic fibrosis within the Framingham Heart Study
Clinical/Research Interests: Hepatology, alcohol-associated liver disease
Name: Daniel Sikavi
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: DDW Oral Presentation
Clinical/Research Interests: GI cancer epidemiology, hepatology
2022
Name: Sway Chen, MD, PhD
Medical School: Columbia University
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: developing novel synthetic biology tools for genetically engineering gut bacteria
Clinical/Research Interests: Gut microbiome, synthetic biology, metabolism, hepatology
Name: Rebecca Liu, MD, PhD
Medical School: Yale School of Medicine
Residency: MGH
Notable Achievement: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award; Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award; Selma and Karl Folkers Prize in Biomedical Research
Clinical/Research Interests: GI motility; disorders of gut-brain interaction; neuroimmunology of the gut
Name: Chioma Okwara, MD
Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Notable Achievement: Member of the Board of Trustees, UMass Medical School
Clinical/Research Interests: Gastroenterology and international health
Name: Jaspreet Sandhu, MD, PhD
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Discovery of Aster proteins in cholesterol transport
Clinical/Research Interests: Metabolism, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Name: Sanskriti Varma, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency: New-York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center
Notable Achievement: Co-Founder of House Staff Quality Council, Co-Chair of Women in Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: Neurogastroenterology/motility, quality improvement, clinical reasoning/medical education
Name: Rachel Wolfson MD, PhD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Leon Reznick Memorial Prize for a record of excellence and accomplishment in research at Harvard Medical School
Clinical/Research Interests: Neurogastroenterology, the sensory innervation of the GI tract
2021
Name: Eugenia N. Uche-Anya, MD MPH
Medical School: Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Residency: New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center
Notable Achievement: AGA Early Career Investigator Award
Clinical/Research Interests: Colon cancer, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, population health outcomes, health disparities
Name: Mythili Prabhu Pathipati, MD
Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Co-Founded the MGH Housestaff Innovation Studio
Clinical/Research Interests: General GI, motility, digital health
Name: Alykhan Shamji, MD, PhD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Building a Chemical Biology Program at the Broad Institute
Clinical/Research Interests: Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Chemical Biology; Immunology
Name: Jonathan M. Downie, MD, PhD
Medical School: University of Utah School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: ACG Resident Clinical Research Award
Clinical/Research Interests: Hepatobiliary disease, human genetics, familial and hereditary diseases
Name: Xing Li, MD, MBA
Medical School: Dartmouth Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: MIT Innovation Incubator Award
Clinical/Research Interests: Tech and innovation in management of chronic liver disease, NLP/ML, remote monitoring
2020
Yousef R. Badran, MD
Medical School: University of Jordan Medical School
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Chief Medical Resident MGH 2021-2022, Paul Dobuler Research Award in Immunodeficiency Research
Clinical/Research Interests: Mucosal immunology, primary immunodeficiencies, Immunotherapy complications
Eric W. Lin, MD, MS
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Residency: University of Michigan
Notable Achievement: Kenneth R. Stark Internal Medicine Research Award, DDW Basic Science Travel Award
Clinical/Research Interests: Microbiome, GI cancer
Meet Our Recent Fellowship Graduates
Jessica E. S. Shay, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Jesse Platt, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Sathish Subramanian, MD, PhD: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Marc Sherman, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Emily Walsh Lopes, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Johannes F. Scheid, MD, PhD: Senda Biosciences
Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH: Massachusetts General Hospital
Amin Soltani, MD: Center for Digestive Wellness, MA
Raaj Mehta, MD, MPH: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Amiko Uchida, MD: University of Utah School of Medicine
Jacqueline N. Chu, MD: Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants, MA
Yasmin Hernandez-Barco, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Darrick Li, MD, PhD: Yale School of Medicine
Long Nguyen, MD, MS: Massachusetts General Hospital
Suraj Patel, MD, PhD: University of Texas, Southwestern
Molly Thomas, MD PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Nneka Ufere, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Patricia Pringle Bloom, MD: University of Michigan
Xiao Tan, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Emily Bethea, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Kristin Burke, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Annie J. Kruger, MD, PhD: Georgetown University School of Medicine
Tracey Simon, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Irun Bhan, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael Dougan, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Jennifer Y. Chen, MD: University of California San Francisco
Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil: Massachusetts General Hospital
Russell Goodman, MD, DPhil: Massachusetts General Hospital
Dmitriy Kedrin, MD, PhD: Elliot Hospital, NH
Ruma Rajbhandari, MD, MPH: Mt. Auburn Hospital, MA
Jay Luther, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel L. Motola, MD, PhD: Gotham Medical Associates, NY
Kyle Staller, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Amandeep Singh, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital

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