GI physician leader to know: Dr. Wayne Lencer of Boston Children’s Hospital

Wayne I. Lencer, MD, is chief of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition and the Harry Schwachman Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is also a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston and director of the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, a NIH-funded center.

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Dr. Lencer has a professional interest in diarrheal diseases, general gastroenterology and intestinal normal physiology and failure. He runs the Lencer laboratory at Boston Children’s, which focuses on the cell and molecular biology of vesicular transport in polarized epithelial cells and regulation of ion transport in the intestine. He has won numerous awards over the course of his career, such as the Samuel J. Meltzer Basic Research Award from the American Digestive Health Foundation and a Harvard Medical School Teaching Award.

Dr. Lencer earned his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine and his residency at Boston City Hospital. He completed his fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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