The faculty members in gastroenterology and hepatology have broadly based research programs that allow the fellows to choose from a wide range of projects in several investigative areas. The research programs are amply funded from a variety of extramural sources, including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The research facilities at both Stanford University Medical Center and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System are considerable and expose the trainee to state-of-the-art research techniques. Many of the cutting edge and revolutionary techniques such as recombinant DNA, DNA microchips, tetramers have been developed at Stanford. In addition, the Division currently has a prestigious NIH-funded Digestive Disease Center (one of fifteen in the U.S. ) that provides significant resources for carrying out cutting edge digestive disease research. The division also has an NIH-funded training grant active since the creation of the division in 1960.
Many of our faculty are nationally recognized leaders in their field, including presidencies of such prestigious national societies as American Gastroenterological Association and American Society for Gastroenterological Endoscopy. Our faculty serve in editorial capacities of leading journals such as Hepatology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Journal of Virology, the Journal of Lipid Research and the American Journal of Medicine among others . To review the faculty of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and their research interests, go to the Faculty page.
To learn more about research in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, go to the Research page.
