His appointment still requires the pending UCSD campus approval.
Dr. Sandborn currently serves as vice chair of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
He attended medical school and completed an internal medicine residency at Loma Linda (Calif.) University, then completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Sandborn is expected to begin at UC San Diego School of Medicine at the end of the year.
Read the UCSD news release about Dr. William Sandborn.
Read about other gastroenterologists in the news:
– Dr. Allan Hardy Joins Georgia’s The Center for Digestive and Liver Health and The Endoscopy Center
– 5 Trends for GI ASCs From Barry Tanner of Physicians Endoscopy
– Gastroenterologist Dr. Fernando Bermudez Comments on Study of PCPs Performing Colonoscopies
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