Postdoctoral Training
The Center hosts postdoctoral fellows on an ongoing basis. Postdoctoral fellows typically stay for two or more years and receive mentored research training while participating in research projects with senior investigators in the Center. They may receive stipends from one of the two training grants awarded through the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology or from extramural grants.
Research fellows have included::
The Center hosts postdoctoral fellows on an ongoing basis. Postdoctoral fellows typically stay for two or more years and receive mentored research training while participating in research projects with senior investigators in the Center. They may receive stipends from one of the two training grants awarded through the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology or from extramural grants.
Research fellows have included::
- Charles K. Burnett, PhD, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
- Olafur S. Palsson, PsyD, Associate Professor of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
- Kenneth Jones, PhD, Director, Managing Obesity in Veterans Program, Veterans Administration, Durham, NC
- Yehuda Ringel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
- Miranda Van Tilburg, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
- Spencer Dorn, MD, Post-Doctocal Fellow in Digestive Disease Epidemiology, metored by Robert Sandler, MD, Douglas Drossman, MD, and William Whitehead, PhD.

