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Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, UC Davis
Travis AFB, CA

Lt Col (USAF) Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS, received her undergraduate education at the University of Maryland, College Park, her Master’s degree in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Georgetown University, and her medical training at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). She went on to complete her Internal Medicine military residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, and her GI fellowship at Augusta University Medical Center (formerly MCG) in Augusta, GA. She has authored several book chapters and peer-reviewed publications, with an emphasis on Disorders of Brain-Gut Interaction and Motility disorders. She is currently Chief of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at David Grant Medical Center in California, where she is also a Neurogastroenterology and Motility specialist. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at USUHS and UC Davis. She serves as a GI manuscript reviewer for Annals of Internal Medicine and co-editor for the Annals of Internal Medicine "Fresh Look" monthly publication. In addition to clinical medicine, she is active in health policy within both the American College of Physicians (ACP) and ACG, where she was recognized as a Young Physician Leadership Scholar. She serves on the ACG Women in GI and Educational Affairs committees.

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