Physician Investigator (Cl) Gastroenterology, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Assistant In Medicine Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital

MPH Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health 2012

MD Southwestern Univ. Med. School 2006

abo blood-group system; colitis, ulcerative; colorectal neoplasms; contraceptives, oral; crohn disease; diphosphonates; gene expression regulation, fungal; glucose; hip fractures; inflammatory bowel diseases; neoplasm proteins; nurses; peptide elongation factors; proton pump inhibitors; reproductive history; saccharomyces cerevisiae

I am interested in clinical and translational research in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Specifically, my research interests are to better understand and define environmental factors, particularly dietary, reproductive, and lifestyle factors, and their interplay with common genetic risk loci and gut microbial environment on risk and progression of IBD.