Faculty & Staff

Yale Digestive Diseases faculty includes a team of gastroenterologists and hepatologists whose expertise focuses on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. Faculty members specialize in disorders of the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, colon and rectum. Evaluations, diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient endoscopy services serve referrals from the region. Non-endoscopic studies, and evaluation and management of liver transplant patients are also provided by this group.

Clara Abraham

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Meena Ananth

Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Harry Aslanian

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Associate Director, Endoscopy
Director, Yale Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship
Director of Gastroenterology, Yale Health Plan

Henry Binder

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

James Boyer

Ensign Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Emeritus Director, Yale Liver Center

Louis Chaptini

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Judy Cho

Henry J. and Joan W. Binder Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Professor of Genetics and of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Chuhan Chung

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Carol Eggers

Clinical Instructor in Nursing

James Farrell

Rosemarie Fisher

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pediatrics
Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education

Martin Floch

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Brett Fortune

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Chief, Digestive Diseases, VA-CT Healthcare System
Director, Clinical and Translational Core, Yale Liver Center
Program Director, VA-CT Hepatitis C Resource Center

Fred Gorelick

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Cell Biology
Associate Director, Yale M.D., Ph.D. Program

Roberto Groszmann

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Rafaz Hoque

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Avlin Imaeda

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Fellowship Program Director

Yasuko Iwakiri

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Dhanpat Jain

Associate Professor of Pathology and of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Director, Program in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
Director, Fellowship in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology

Simona Jakab

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Priya Jamidar

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Director, Endoscopy

Cyrus Kapadia

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Loren Laine

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

AnnMarie Liapakis

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Joseph Lim

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Director, Yale Viral Hepatitis Program

Wajahat Mehal

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Anil Nagar

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Endoscopy Director, West Haven VAMC

Michael Nathanson

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Cell Biology
Section Chief, Digestive Diseases
Director, Yale Liver Center
Director, Center for Cell and Molecular Imaging

Ioannis Oikonomou

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Co-Medical Director, Temple Endoscopy Center
Medical Director, Temple Infusion Center

Deborah Proctor

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

Petr Protiva

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Adjunct Faculty at Breslow Lab, Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Anamika Reed

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Marie Robert

Professor of Pathology and of Medicine
Associate Director, Fellowship in Gastrointestinal Pathology

Ara Sahakian

Instructor in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Mayra Sanchez

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Michael Schilsky

Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Surgery (Transplant)
Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplant at Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center

Carol Soroka

Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Technical Director, Liver Center Morphology Core

Carlo Spirli

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Scott Swenson

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Associate Director, Fellowship Training Program in Digestive Diseases

Tamar Taddei

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Edwin Thrower

Research Scientist in Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Ronald Vender

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
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