Our Team

Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH

Chief; Bozymski-Heizer Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Co-Director, North Carolina Translational & Clinical Research Center (NC TraCS)

Shifali Arora, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine; Vice Chief of Clinical Operations

Millie D. Long, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine; Vice Chief, Education

Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH

Nina C. and John T. Sessions Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease

Joanna Herath

Associate Chief for Administration

M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of UNC Microbiome Core

Edward L. Barnes, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Fellowship Program Director

Todd Baron, MD

Professor of Medicine; Director of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy

A. Sidney Barritt IV, MD, MSCR, FACG, FAASLD

Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of Hepatology

Ian Carroll, PhD

Assistant Professor

Seth Crockett, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Jama M. Darling, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing

Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA

Professor of Medicine; Vice Chair, Care Innovation

Michael K. Dougherty, MD, MSCR

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Swathi Eluri, MD, MSCR

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Donna M. Evon, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Oren K. Fix, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine; Medical Director of Liver Transplantation

Michael W. Fried, MD

Professor of Medicine

Lisa M. Gangarosa, MD

Professor of Medicine

Ian Grimm, MD

Professor of Medicine; Director of GI Procedures

Amit Gupta, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jonathan Hansen, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, UNC-Hillsborough GI Clinic and Endoscopy Center

Kelly E. Hathorn, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director of Bariatric Endoscopy

Hans Herfarth, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine; Co-Director UNC Multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center

Kim L. Isaacs, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Animesh Jain, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Temitope O. Keku, MSc, MSPH, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition

Daniel Kroch, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Scott T. Magness, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering

Sarah McGill, MD, Msc

Associate Professor of Medicine

Andrew Moon, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Claude T. Nuzum, MD

Professor of Medicine

Olafur S. Palsson, Psy.D.

Professor of Medicine

Anne Peery, MD, MSCR

Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Adult Inpatient Nutrition Support Team

David F. Ransohoff, MD

Professor of Medicine

Craig C. Reed, MD, MSCR

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Melissa Rich, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

R. Balfour Sartor, MD

Midget Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology; Co-Director, UNC Multidisciplinary IBD Center

Yolanda V. Scarlett, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, GI Motility Laboratory

Neil Shah, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Fellowship Program Director

Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine & Genetics

Hersh Shroff, MD, MPA

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Kimberly Weaver, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

William E. Whitehead, PhD

Professor of Medicine and OBGYN; Director, Center for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Sonia J. Abichandani, MD

Clinical Fellow

Muyiwa E. Awoniyi, MD, PhD

Transplant Hepatology Fellow

Luke T. Baldelli, MD, MAE

Clinical Fellow

Ryan A. Balko, MD

Clinical Fellow

Caroline M. Barrett, MD

Clinical Fellow

Erica J. Brenner, MD MSCR

Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease Fellow (Pediatric Gastroenterology)

Patrick T. Campbell, MD

Clinical Fellow

Cary C. Cotton, MD, MPH

Clinical Outcomes/Epidemiology Fellow

Kimberly C. Darlington, MD, PhD

Basic Science Fellow

Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD

Clinical Outcomes/Epidemiology Fellow

Christina S. Gainey, MD

Clinical Outcomes/Epidemiology Fellow

Andrew J. Gilman, MD

Advanced Endoscopy Fellow

Simon M. Gray, MD, PhD

Basic Science Fellow

Sydney B. Greenberg, MD

Clinical Fellow

Joshua L. Hudson, MD, MSc

Clinical Fellow

Vivian Lee, MD, MSc, MS

Basic Science Fellow

Walker D. Redd, MD

Clinical Outcomes/Epidemiology Fellow

Jared A. Sninsky, MD

Clinical Outcomes/Epidemiology Fellow

Kathleen A. Ferrell, PA-C, MPAS

Physician Assistant

Dawn S. Harrison, DNP, FNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner

Natalie Lappas, MSN, RN, FNP-C

Nurse Practitioner

Danielle M. Maier, MPAS, PA-C

Physician Assistant

Vikki Griffin Metheny, BSN, MSN, ANP

Nurse Practitioner

Melissa Spacek, BSN, MSN

Nurse Practitioner

John Baron, MD, MS, MSc

Professor of Medicine

Douglas A. Drossman, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Psychiatry

Susan J. Henning, PhD

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Sidney E. Levinson, MD

Professor of Medicine

Magnus Simrén, MD, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Henrik Toft Sørensen, MD, PhD, DMSc, Dsc

Professor; Department Chair at Aarhus University

Nicholas J. Talley, MD, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Medicine