Fellowship applicants can download a listing of all Indiana University Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology faculty publications for the last five years here.
The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology offers a three-year fellowship training program. At least 18 months are devoted to clinical training in consultative inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology, hepatology, and gastrointestinal endoscopy. The fellows will receive extensive training in general GI, hepatology, GI endoscopy (diagnostic, therapeutic and advanced therapeutic) and diagnostic ERCP. Fellows will be adequately exposed to GI motility studies, endoscopic ultrasound, advanced GI radiology and therapeutic ERCP. For non-academic track, fellows are required to conduct faculty-mentored research for 3-6 months depending on the project chosen. Four-year academic fellowship track is available for suitable fellows who are competitive with prior research track record. During this academic fellowship, fellows will spend extended periods of protected time to get trained in clinical, translational and basic research.
Clinical training is carried out in the three teaching hospitals on campus: University Hospital (a tertiary and quaternary referral center for the state and surrounding region), Wishard Memorial Hospital (a modern private and city-county hospital) and the Richard Roudebush Veterans' Affairs Hospital. The hospitals are within walking distance of each other, and the fellows spend about one third of their time in each setting.
The fellows take responsibility for the endoscopic and consultative services. The fellows participate in outpatient clinics for inflammatory bowel disease, pancreaticobiliary disease, and liver diseases (including pre- and post-liver transplant clinics), as well as continuity clinics for general gastrointestinal disorders. This exposure is complemented by a conference schedule that includes radiological and pathological correlation conferences, journal review clubs, fellow case presentations, GI Grand Rounds, a variety of focused subspecialty conferences (IBD, GI Radiology, ERCP, etc.), and a textbook review conference. GI fellows will attend national conferences (one per year) and will also participate in a nationally recognized board-review course in gastroenterology.
The fellowship program is enriched by an active GI and liver research program of the faculty, including bench research on alcoholic liver disease and the genetics of alcoholism, expression of liver specific genes, studies on biliary epithelial biology, and clinical pharmacology related to the liver and GI tract. Clinical research includes translational research on non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and drug and xenobiotic hepatotoxicities, and clinical studies on pancreatic-biliary manometry, endoscopic ultrasound, colorectal neoplasms, alcoholic and hepatitis C-related liver diseases, and inflammatory bowel disease.
In addition to the GI fellowship, a dedicated hepatology fellowship (lasting 1-2 years) is available for internal medicine graduates or those who have finished GI fellowship. The liver transplant program at Indiana University is one of the largest in the United States and offers extensive clinical and research experience. This training will meet the criteria for UNOS certification.
We are expecting to have three positions available for July 2008. These positions will be 3-year clinical tracks with some research time during second and third year fellowship. We plan to go through ERAS and through NRMP matching for these three positions.
We sponsor J1 visas. We do not initiate H1 visa sponsorship but for those who are already on an H1 visa, our institution is generally able to continue the sponsorship. We do not discriminate based on visa status, nationality, or any other parameter.
Thank you for your interest in our program.
For further information, please contact:
Division Director:
Naga Chalasani, M.D.
Fellowship Coordinator:
Nada Phoenix
1050 Wishard Blvd., RG 4100
Indianapolis, IN 46202
