Gastroenterologist to know: Dr. Richard Blumberg of Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Richard S. Blumberg, MD, is chief of the gastroenterology, hepatology and endoscopy division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is also co-director of the Harvard Digestive Disease Center in Boston.

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Dr. Blumberg previously served as chair of the National Scientific Advisory Committee of the Crohn’s & Colitis of America and president of the Society for Mucosal Immunology. He is the recipient of the National Institute of Health’s MERIT Award, the American Gastroenterological Association’s William Beaumont Prize and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America’s Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award.

Dr. Blumberg earned his medical degree from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and completed his residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He completed his gastroenterology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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