The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and affiliated hospitals (Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, and Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center) offer a three-year ACGME-accredited training program in gastroenterology for three fellows each year.

The goal of the program is to prepare board eligible internists for a career in clinical or academic gastroenterology. The atmosphere is scholarly and provides a wide exposure to clinical gastroenterology and hepatology and to related clinical, translational and basic scientific research. The fellowship aims to inspire clinical excellence and mold socially responsible physicians in an atmosphere that promotes congeniality, diversity, a personalized approach to trainee aspirations and fosters a spirit for life-long learning. The program is customized to the individual fellow with the aim of producing a strong foundation in general gastroenterology. In addition, it provides an opportunity to sub-specialize in a niche such as hepatology, advanced endoscopy, GI motility, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or women’s health.

Fast Facts

• Graduates: There are no 4th year positions in our program. Over the past 10 years, 13 graduating fellows have pursued 4th year training (9 in advanced endoscopy, 2 in IBD, 2 in transplant hepatology), 14 have joined private practices and 7 have taken full-time academic positions. All passed their GI board examination at their first attempt.
• There is no liver transplant program in Rhode Island; however, many fellows have pursued away rotations at liver transplant centers during their PGY 5 or PGY 6 years.
• On-call: On-call commitment is 1 in 9 nights and weekends, covering RI hospital and the VA Medical Center only. Call is equitably spaced across each PGY year.
• Teaching: Fellows supervise residents and medical students on GI electives, and lead small groups at the medical school during the students 2nd year GI curriculum.
• Salary and Benefits for 2023-2024

In the first year of fellowship (PGY4) two week cycles are spent rotating on the inpatient consult service at Rhode Island Hospital, the inpatient consult service at the VA Medical Center and the ambulatory clinic and outpatient endoscopy block. This cycle is then repeated through the first year. The second (PGY5) year includes 4-6 months total time to develop a research program. There are many choices with particular emphasis on the molecular basis of gastroenterological and liver diseases, translational and clinical programs in inflammatory bowel disease, and clinical research in hepatology including viral hepatitis and NAFLD. Fellows also participate in a quality improvement project, and in a one month nutrition rotation. Extensive experience in specialized endoscopic techniques is available at the PGY6 level, including endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) esophageal and colonic stents placement and radiofrequency and cryoablative esophageal therapies. Over the course of the program, each fellow will perform about 1,500 endoscopic procedures, including 100-200 advanced procedures (ERCP and EUS).

Past Fellows – Where Did They Go?

2024
A. Guo MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Mt. Sinai, NY, NY)
K. Farrakhan MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Stony Brook, NY)
L. Channen: Clinical Practice, Boston, MA

2023
B. Roussel MD: Clinical Practice, Voluntary Faculty, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
K. Ferreira MD: Clinical Practice, Bethesda, MD.
E. Argueta MD: Clinical Practice, Irvine, CA

2022
Jaehoon Cho, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Columbia, NY, NY)
Amber Charoen MD: Faculty at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD)
May Min, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Waihung Chung, MD PhD: Clinical Practice, Fall River, MA.

2021
Chung Sang Tse, MD: IBD Fellowship (UCSD, CA).
Ronan Farrell, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Jason Pan, MD: Transplant Hepatology Fellowship (U. Michigan)

2020
Sehrish Jamot, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Dartmouth, NH).
Katherine Fan, MD: Clinical Practice, Tacoma, WA

2019
Shannon Simmons, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Manida Wungjiranirun, MD: Transplant Hepatology Fellowship (UCSF, CA).
Mena Bakhit, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, PA).

2018
Yesenia Greff, MD: GI Program Director, UMASS at Baystate, Springfield, MA
Olelanru Jimoh, MD: Clinical Practice, Charlotte, NC
Alex Browne, MD: Clinical Practice, Oakhurst, NJ

2017
Eric Mao, MD: IBD Fellowship (UCSF, CA)
Sean Fine, MD: Full-Time Faculty member, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Michal Ganz, MD: Clinical Practice, Amherst, MA

2016
David Rahni, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Dartmouth, NH)
Nancy Kang, MD: Clinical Practice, Hartford, CT
Alexis Pappas, MD: Clinical Practice, Taunton, MA

2015
Jason Ferreira, MD: Advanced endoscopy fellowship (Dartmouth). Clinical Practice, Voluntary Faculty, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Pranith Perera, MD: Advanced endoscopy fellowship (U. Michigan). Clinical Practice, Voluntary Faculty, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
Charles Wang, MD: Clinical Practice, Sacramento, CA

2014
Sarah Hyder, MD: Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship (Dartmouth). GI Faculty, UMASS
Judy Nee, MD: GI Faculty, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
Milton Ochieng, MD: Clinical Practice, St. Louis, MI

The Brown University Fellowship Program is a participant in the National Residency Match. Application for a position in the Brown gastroenterology fellowship is through the electronic residency application service.

For inquiries relating to the fellowship, contact Lorie Griffin, Program Coordinator, or Dr. Steven Moss, Program Director.