Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
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Biography

Ronnie Fass is a Professor of Medicine on a tenure track at the University of Arizona in Tucson and Chief of Gastroenterology and Director of the GI Motility Laboratory at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, and head of the Neuroenteric Clinical Research Group. Dr. Fass earned his medical degree at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel and completed a one-year internship at Tel-Aviv University. He later moved to the USA and did his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he later became a Chief Resident. He then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California in Los Angeles where he focused on GI motility and functional bowel disorders. Dr. Fass is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology. He is the chair of the Audio Committee and a member of the Education Committee as well as the FDA Related Matters Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology. He is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology Academic Clinician Task Force. He is a council member of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Diseases of the Esophagus as well as the International Committee for Neurogastroenterology and Motility. He is also a member of the Nominating Committee of the Upper GI Section of the American Gastroenterological Association AGA. Dr. Fass is the former chair of the Practice Parameter Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology ACG and the Publication Committee of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ASGE.Dr. Fass is the recipient of the American Gastroenterological Association/Janssen Award for Digestive Sciences in Clinical Research and the Department of Veteran Affairs, Investigator of the Year award. He has received the University of Arizona Dean’s Research Award, the Glaxo Institute of Digestive Health Clinical Research Award twice, the American College of Gastroenterology Research Award three times, the American Medical Association Resident-Mentor Award twice, and the American Journal of Gastroenterology Outstanding Reviewer Award. Dr. Fass has been selected as one of the Best Doctors in America since 2004.

Research Interest

Ronnie Fass research interests include GI Motility and Functional bowel disorders.

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