About the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
he 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)
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: General GI, IBD, 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
Paige McLean Diaz, MD
Medical School: Morehouse School of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Three abstracts accepted to AASLD 2021
Clinical/Research Interests: Palliative Care in ESLD, Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Eric Przybyszewski, MD
Medical School: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Completing residency with a great group of friends and colleagues at MGH.
Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical and translational research in liver disease
Robert M. Wilechansky, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Residency: Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program
Notable Achievement: Chief Medical Resident Boston University Medical School
Clinical/Research Interests: Hepatology and the epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
2019
Sathish Subramanian, MD, PhD
Medical School: Washington University in St. Louis
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Notable Achievement: Gates Cambridge Scholarship Recipient
Clinical/Research Interests: Nutrition & IBD / Microbiome, immunology & global health
2018
Jesse Platt, MD, PhD
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Residency: Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Notable Achievement: Recent/forthcoming publication in Science
Clinical/Research Interests: Transcriptional biology and phase separation
Jessica E. S. Shay, MD, PhD
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Notable Achievement: AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar
Clinical/Research Interests: Hepatology/Organismal and cellular metabolism influences on tissue regeneration
Meet Our Recent Fellowship Graduates
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: Massachusetts General Hospital
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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