Jay Pasricha

Dr. Pasricha received his M.D. degree from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1982. Subsequently he trained in internal medicine and pulmonology at Georgetown University-DC General Hospital and Tufts-New England Medical Center, respectively. Thereafter he trained in Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Hospital and then stayed on faculty at Johns Hopkins University, as Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Associate Director of the Marvin Schuster Center for Gastrointestinal Motility. In 1997 Dr Pasricha assumed leadership of the GI Division at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he was the Bassel and Frances Blanton Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine until August 2007 prior to assuming the position of Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Stanford, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery and Stanford Biodesign faculty. In 2012, Dr. Pasricha moved back to Johns Hopkins, where he is Professor of Medicine, Director of Digestive Disorders (Bayview) and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology.