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🙏 I’m deeply grateful to Shirley and Walter Wang and @esrailian for their generosity and vision. It’s an honor to help advance whole-person digestive care through this chair and our center @UCLAGIHep & @UCLAHealth
🙌@LinChangMD appointed inaugural holder of the Walter & Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in Integrative Digestive Health. As chair, she will advance the center’s goal of expanding access to digestive healthcare that prioritizes physical & emotional well-being
👉newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/lin-c…
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Thanks @IrisWangMD! 🙏 to @MayoClinicGIHep for the great honor of being the Hugh Butt visiting professor! I loved meeting the fellows & faculty and listening to the great research of the 3rd yr fellows! You should all be very proud!
Our annual Hugh Butt Research Retreat is always a highlight @MayoClinicGIHep!
Fortunate to have Dr. @LinChangMD sharing inspirational science & career advice and our third year fellows presenting innovative & impactful research.
I could not be more proud 🤩
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Can wearables help predict an IBD flare?
Our work suggests physiologic changes may precede flares, and we’re now using AI to try to forecast them.
@bruce_sands1 and I discuss with @Medscape how wearables could reshape IBD monitoring and care: medscape.com/viewarticle/we…
Our work suggests physiologic changes may precede flares, and we’re now using AI to try to forecast them.
@bruce_sands1 and I discuss with @Medscape how wearables could reshape IBD monitoring and care: medscape.com/viewarticle/we…
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🙌Dr. Rajat Singh receives $3M @NIH (National Institute on Aging) grant to investigate how aging affects a brain region that helps control metabolism, and whether reactivating a specific group of neurons could keep our metabolism healthier for longer.
👉 uclahealth.org/news/publicati…
👉 uclahealth.org/news/publicati…
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Excellent Rome V update from Dr. Lin Chang @LinChangMD and @umfoodoc at #ACG2026! Key takeaways: positive, mechanism-informed diagnosis; flexible clinical criteria; less low-value testing; and individualized care. Building diagnostic confidence and reducing stigma for patients with DGBI. 👏📝
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🎙️ @LinChangMD steps to the mic for our special live #GutTalk recording at #ACG2026
Tune in as she breaks down what’s new, what’s changed, and what matters most in Rome V
More from the conversation coming soon 🎧 bit.ly/479lXVr
Tune in as she breaks down what’s new, what’s changed, and what matters most in Rome V
More from the conversation coming soon 🎧 bit.ly/479lXVr
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We are thrilled and grateful to @NIH_ORWH & @niddk for continuing to support our SCORE Center’s research on sex differences in #IBS and also for supporting research studying sex differences & women’s health. 🙏
UCLA Health received $7.5M to renew its research center focused on sex differences in #IBS. It's part of the @NIH SCORE on Sex Differences Program & funded by Office of Research on Women’s Health & @niddk.
🌟Leads: @LinChangMD @pipethero @EmeranMayerMD
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Looking forward to Co-Directing the ASGE/ACG Endoscopy Course in Nashville with Shivangi Kothari and Heiko Pohl this Friday, October 9th at the ACG Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN! Hope to see many friends and colleagues there in person! A virtual option also exists. Please join n enjoyable and education event on elevating your endoscopy technique! Register at: acgmeetings.gi.org/registration/
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Welcome Dr. Diego Rivera Gelsinger @tehhoyen to UCLA! The Rivera Gelsinger Lab engineers microbial communities by turning nature's mobile genetic elements into programmable tools. He's asst professor in human genetics & digestive disease & Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center member.
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🙌@LinChangMD (#UCLAGI) and @bruce_sands1 (Mount Sinai) were awarded a $4M @NIH grant to investigate why some ulcerative colitis patients continue to experience #IBS-like symptoms even after inflammation has subsided.
uclahealth.org/news/release/d…
uclahealth.org/news/release/d…
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⚡ Our new @DiseasePrimers out now on IBS. Reviews the latest on peripheral & central mechanisms, diagnosis, screening & management (incl diet, drugs, BGBH). Huge congrats to the team, particularly @LinChangMD for her mammoth effort in leading this work. nature.com/articles/s4157…
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Meet your new @AGA_GIHN editor in chief Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD! @berkeleydoc is the director of clinical research for the UCLA Center for IBD at #UCLAGI. He brings an engineer’s eye and a methodologist’s rigor to GI & Hepatology News.
👉news.gastro.org/issues/2026/oc…
👉news.gastro.org/issues/2026/oc…
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🎙️ Live podcast Food: The Main Course Conference w/@HealioGastro @umfoodoc @LinChangMD @KateScarlata_RD Amanda Lynett RDN @IBSpatient
discuss careers in support of patients 🔹 Managing the diet paradigm shift? 🔹 Advice do you have for residents & fellows? tinyurl.com/5t6t9mtm
discuss careers in support of patients 🔹 Managing the diet paradigm shift? 🔹 Advice do you have for residents & fellows? tinyurl.com/5t6t9mtm
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I’m excited to announce the launch of BPCCIR:
Building the Future of Interoceptive Neuroscience
—a new 5-year, $3.5M NIH Blueprint U24 Coordination Center focused on advancing the science of brain–body communication. 1/3
Building the Future of Interoceptive Neuroscience
—a new 5-year, $3.5M NIH Blueprint U24 Coordination Center focused on advancing the science of brain–body communication. 1/3
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🔥Overview of #IBS 🔖 @DiseasePrimers includes biology of gut–brain interactions, updated Rome V diagnostic criteria, current dietary, medication & behavioral treatments & emerging microbiome research & precision medicine may shape the future of IBS care. nature.com/articles/s4157…
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10 Pearls for Clinical Practice in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction 🔖 @AmJGastro Making a positive diagnosis, not a diagnosis of exclusion.
🖊️ @LinChangMD @hmstaudacher Sarah Ballou Giovanni Barbara
👉journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/1…
🖊️ @LinChangMD @hmstaudacher Sarah Ballou Giovanni Barbara
👉journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/1…
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✍️Accepting applications for the 2027-28 Advanced #IBD Fellowship Program thru July 15! Centered within a high-volume, multidisciplinary IBD program, the fellowship offers a tailored blend of advanced clinical training & research development.
👉Learn more uclahealth.org/departments/me…
👉Learn more uclahealth.org/departments/me…
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Where does the time go?🎓 We will miss this fantastic group of #UCLAGI fellows. Future patients will benefit not only from their clinical training & research accomplishments, but also from the kind, compassionate, and thorough care we know they will provide! Congratulations 💙
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A Joint @RomeFoundation and @IOIBD1 Consensus provides standardized terminology, evaluation strategies, and treatment recommendations for #IBD with #IBS-like symptoms 🔖 in @AGA_Gastro
👉 doi.org/10.1053/j.gast…
👉 doi.org/10.1053/j.gast…
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It was an honor and a true pleasure hosting @tberzin as the Gary Gitnick Visiting Professor at @UCLA
We were fortunate to gain pearls of wisdom from his remarkable career in #endoscopy, mentorship & visionary work pushing the boundaries of medicine and #AI in our field & beyond
We were fortunate to gain pearls of wisdom from his remarkable career in #endoscopy, mentorship & visionary work pushing the boundaries of medicine and #AI in our field & beyond
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