The Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Fellowship draws trainees from across the U.S. and around the world. While all our trainees have a love of learning and a compassionate approach to patient care, they come from diverse backgrounds, family status, and professional and personal interests. Meet our current fellow and learn about their experience in the program.

David Chiang, M.D., Ph.D.

Medical school: Mount Sinai School of Medicine  
Residency: University of Massachusetts - Worcester
GI Fellowship: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

What attracted you to gastroenterology? It’s a great field to understand physiology, where things go wrong, and how treatments might change that to benefit patients. There’s a wealth of procedural and research opportunities to change patient’s lives as well.

What attracted you to Mayo Clinic for fellowship training? Having access to multidisciplinary experts across multiple specialties, and the humility and kindness with which the physicians and scientists here approach patient care or research questions is unparalleled.

What makes Mayo Clinic's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Fellowship unique? We have at least 10 IBD faculty, which is a large program, and each of the faculty are experts in particular aspects of IBD.

Did anything surprise you about Mayo's program? Things get done a lot more efficiently here compared to other places and the city of Rochester is growing and thriving.

What is living in Rochester, Minnesota, like for you? Great! It’s really easy to live here and there is easy access to the outdoors, city life, and weekend trips. The cold is not that bad.

What does your future look like right now? IBD Fellowship for the next year and then off to IBD practice in the Twin Cities.