DIVISION PROFILES
Barbara Jung, MD Chief of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
ADVANCED ENDOSCOPY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The Advanced Endoscopy Training Program is program designed to provide trainees with skills required to excel in their career as a therapeutic endoscopist in an academic setting. While gaining exposure to advanced endoscopic procedures, fellows also participate in various clinical activities (i.e., inpatient consult service, endoscopy sessions, outpatient clinics, evening and weekend call) relating to the biliary service as well as general gastroenterology as directed by the division chief.
TRANSPLANT HEPATOLOGY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Our Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program provides fellows with full exposure to all aspects of clinical hepatology and transplantation. We offer one fellowship position each year for highly qualified physicians dedicated to obtaining high quality training in Transplant Hepatology. Fellows are exposed to ambulatory pre and post-transplant clinics, inpatient transplant hepatology, inpatient transplant surgery, interventional radiology, and clinical hepatology.
We maintain an active clinical and basic science research environment. Approximately ¾ of our program trainees are in private practice throughout the United States; the remainder occupy positions in academia around the world.
The Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division is an academically vibrant Division offering all subspecialty patient services, a vast array of cutting edge investigations and renowned training.
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Dr. Zohair Ahmed - Annual GI fellow research award recipient
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Dr. Reed Berger - Castle Connolly top doctor award recipient
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Dr. Pradeep K. Dudeja - Takeda Distinguished Research Award
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Dr. Wasseem Skef - poster of distinction (2018). Selected for the Editorial Board for Hepatology Communications
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Dr. Jun Sun - Leading editor of a Nature/Spring book entitled
from American Physiological Society: GI & Liver section for
“Mechanisms underlying host-microbiome interactions in
the year 2018 awarded at Experimental Biology April 21-25,
pathophysiology of human diseases.” This book has shown a
2018 at San Diego, CA. Elected as Vice Chair for American
novel theme and multiple disciplinary topics of microbiome
Gastroenterology Association’s Basic and Clinical Intestinal
research for broad audience. Chair-elected for the American
Disorders (BCID) Section, 2018-2019. State-of-the-art Lecture
Gastroenterological Associate (AGA) microbiome section.
Invited Speaker: Indian Society of Gastroenterology Conference,
Trainees received multiple awards from AGA and CCFA for their
Bhubaneswar, India, December 14-16, 2017. State-of-the-art
research in microbiome. Poetry collection “Let time stay still at
Lecture Invited Speaker at Digestive Disease Week on June 5,
this moment” 《让时间停留在这一刻 》published in January
2018 at Washington DC
2018 by Chinese Literature and History Press.
Dr. Ravinder K. Gill - Senior Research Award from Crohn’s and
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Dr. Cemal Yazici - CATS (Clinical and Translational Science)
Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) 2017-2020.
Scholars Affiliates Award. Center for Clinical and Translational
Dr. Paul Grippo - Oral presentation at the 110th Annual AACR
Science, UIC, (Chicago, IL), 2018. Young Investigator Travel
Meeting in Chicago. Oncogene. 2017 Jul 27;36(30):4336-4348.
Award, American Pancreatic Association, 2018. Travel Award,
Dr. Carolina Torres (post-doc).
Fellows’ Symposium, 2018 National Pancreas Foundation.
Dr. Barbara Jung - Oral presentation at the annual American
PancreasFest Travel Scholarship, 2017 CAPER (Collaborative
Pancreas Association meeting to present new data on
Alliance for Pancreatic Education and Research)
pancreatitis.
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