Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
130 Bioinformatics Bldg
Campus Box 7080
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7080
Phone: 919-966-0141
Fax: 919-966-8929
Biography
Dr. Dorn received his undergraduate degree, with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan ; his medical degree, summa cum laude, from SUNY at Brooklyn College of Medicine; and a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Dr. Dorn completed his internal medicine training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School . He subsequently trained at UNC as a National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Digestive Diseases Epidemiology and later as a clinical fellow in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Upon completion of his training Dr. Dorn joined the UNC faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. His clinical and research interests are in health services for chronic digestive diseases, especially functional GI disorders.
Clinical Interests
- Functional GI and motility disorders
- Patient-centered care
Research Interests
Health services for digestive disorders, including health care delivery, outcomes, policy, quality of careCurrent Studies
- IBS patient satisfaction with care
- Program to collect patient-reported data at the point-of-care
