Education

• M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Residency, Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
• Fellowship, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center
• Fellowship, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, New York University, Langone Medical Center

Areas of Expertise

• Crohn's disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Celiac disease
• Gastroesophageal reflux
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Colorectal cancer prevention and screening
• Diarrhea/constipation
• Fatty liver disease

Honors and Awards

• Castle Connolly Top Doctors New York 2022
• Castle Connolly Rising Star 2021, 2022
• New York Magazine: Top Doctors: 2022
• Westchester Magazine: Top Doctors: 2022

Publications

• Boots B, Berg D, Hewitt E, et. al. "Physical Activity and Enjoyment in Active Virtual Reality Games in Youth: Comparative Analysis of Gorilla Tag and Beat Saber." JMIR serious games, 13(), (2025) e66593. doi: 10.2196/66593
• Voerman SA, Strijbos DW, Staring ABP, et. al. "Problem-sustaining patterns: redesigning the concept of mental disorder." Frontiers in psychiatry, 16(), (2025) 1382915. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1382915
• Wallentin L, Lindbäck J, Hijazi Z, et. al. "Biomarker-Based Model for Prediction of Ischemic Stroke in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation." Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 85(11), (2025) 1173-1185. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.11.052
• Docherty KF, McDowell K, Welsh P, et. al. "Interleukin-6 in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction and the Effect of Dapagliflozin: An Exploratory Analysis of the Dapagliflozin and Prevention of Adverse Outcomes in Heart Failure Trial." JACC. Heart failure, (), (2025) . pii: S2213-1779(25)00090-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2024.12.012
• Katsara MA, van den Berg D, Spaander MCW, et. al. "The impact of extended invitation intervals on stage distribution of screen-detected and interval cancer within the Dutch colorectal cancer screening program." International journal of cancer, (), (2025) . doi: 10.1002/ijc.35371
• Scott I, Aarts E, Wannan C, et. al. "Characterising symptomatic substates in individuals on the psychosis continuum: a hidden Markov modelling approach." Psychological medicine, 55(), (2025) e82. doi: 10.1017/S003329172500056X
• Choi SH, Jurgens SJ, Xiao L, et. al. "Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk." Nature genetics, 57(3), (2025) 548-562. doi: 10.1038/s41588-025-02074-9

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Bi-monthly multidisciplinary inflammatory bowel disease conference for the colorectal surgery and gastroenterology fellows and attendings.
• Teaching the gastroenterology fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students.
• Teaching gastroenterology lectures at the medical school
• Presenting at grand rounds
• Inflammatory bowel disease board review for gastroenterology fellows