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Division of Digestive Diseases & Nutrition

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Name Email Address Title Research Description
James, Stephen Director
Saslowsky, David
  • Program Director
  • Deputy Director
Career Development Programs (K awards)
Andersen, Dana Program Director Observational and Investigational Clinical Research; Biomedical Devices, Surgical Interventions, and Medications
Barthlett, Alexis Program Specialist
Bock, Britny Program Specialist
Burgess-Beusse, Bonnie Program Director Liver cell, molecular and developmental biology; liver regeneration; bile, bilirubin and cholestasis
Cummings, Diana Program Director Gut-Brain Interactions in Nutrition and Obesity; Nutrient Sensing; Gastrointestinal Interoception; Neurobiology of Nausea and Vomiting
Densmore, Christine Program Director Institutional Training; Small Business Technology Development; Fellowship Director
Doo, Edward Program Director Fatty Liver Disease; Genetic Liver Disease; HIV and Liver; Pediatric Liver Disease; Viral Hepatitis and Infectious Diseases
Evans, Mary Program Director Multi-center Clinical Studies in Nutrition & Obesity; Nutrition Obesity Research Centers; Diet & Physical Activity Assessment Methodology
Garcia, Martha Program Director Mechanisms in drug-induced hepatotoxicity, molecular pathways in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), lipotoxicity.
Gibbs, Kimberlea Program Analyst
Greenwel, Patricia Program Director Basic and Translational Gastrointestinal Developmental Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Neurogenesis, Epithelial Cell Biology, Lymphatics, and Pathogenesis of HIV-Related Disease
Hales, Craig Program Director Clinical Obesity Prevention and Treatment
Hall, Sherry Clinical Trials Specialist
Hoofnagle, Jay Program Director Basic and Clinical Research on Liver Diseases
Klapproth, Jan-Michael Program Director Alimentary Digestive Diseases, IBD, Celiac Disease, Diarrhea, Gastritis, Endoscopy
Loh, Katrina Program Official
Lunsford, Robert Program Director Host-microbial Interactions, Pathogenesis and Microbiomes
Maruvada, Padma Program Director Nutrient Metabolism; Clinical Obesity and Nutrition
Nguyen, Khoa Health Program Specialist HIV/AIDS comorbidities, complications, coinfections
Osganian, Stavroula Program Director Pediatric Clinical Obesity
Pawlikowska, Ludmila Program Director Genetics and Genomics of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases; Obesity and Nutrition
Ravichandran, Veerasamy Program Director Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Data Science
Senger, Stefania Program Director Intestinal mucosal biology and pathology; stem cells; host-pathogens and microbiota interactions; celiac disease
Serrano, Katrina Program Director K awards in digestive diseases, Digestive Disease Research Core Centers
Serrano, Jose Program Director Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrinology; Exocrine Pancreas; Pancreatitis; Drug Induced Liver Injury; Clinical Research on GI Diseases
Shea-Donohue, Terez Program Director Basic and Translational Neurogastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Motility, Gastrointestinal Barrier Function, Mucosal Immunology and Inflammation
Sherker, Averell Program Director Autoimmune Liver Disease; Acute Liver Failure; Complications of Chronic Liver Disease; Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases; Liver Bioengineering and Biotechnology; Liver Cancer; Liver Transplantation
Snoddy, Celena Program Analyst
Unalp-Arida, Aynur
  • Program Director
  • Clinical Trialist
Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Digestive Diseases, and Nutrition
Van Raaphorst, Rebekah Clinical Trialist
Yanovski, Susan Senior Scientific Advisor: DDN