He earned his medical degree from and completed a residency at UC Los Angeles School of Medicine. He completed his fellowship at UC San Diego.
Dr. Laine is a past American Gastroenterological Association Institute president and a past American Gastroenterological Association chairman. He is a Royal College of Physicians, American College of Gastroenterology and American Gastroenterological Association fellow.
The AGA will award him the Julius Friedenwald Medal at Digestive Disease Week 2018, June 2 to June 5 in Washington D.C.
Dr. Laine received the AGA’s Fitterman Foundation Clinical Research in Gastroenterology Award in 2002.
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