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Baylor College of Medicine Gastroenterology

Fellowship · Houston, TX

Sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine · Directors Milena Suarez and Salmaan Jawaid

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Class size
7
Visas
J-1
PGY-4 salary
$79k2026 to 2027

Green flags

  • Fills every seat. Every seat filled in each of the last 5 Matches.
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Getting in

How it chooses

  • Applicants must have finished an internal medicine residency at an accredited U.S. institution, for either the clinical or the research track.

Who started, by class

Started 20266 on record of 7 seats · 6 published before starting
  • Sharon ThomsonDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center9 papers · 1 first author
  • Michael ShiBaylor College of Medicine7 papers · 2 first author · 3 case reports · 1 review
  • Kiandokht BashiriMedStar Health Georgetown University6 papers · 3 first author · 1 case report · 3 reviews
  • Akanksha TograTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center5 papers · 3 first author · 2 case reports
  • Priyanka JagannathanDell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin4 papers
  • Pooja PrasadBaylor College of Medicine3 papers · 1 case report
Started 20258 on record of 7 seats · 8 published before starting
  • Jerapas ThongpiyaTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock36 papers · 6 first author · 19 case reports · 6 reviews
  • Lina YaganUniversity of Pennsylvania6 papers · 1 case report · 4 reviews
  • Saleha AzizThe University of Mississippi Medical Center4 papers · 2 first author
  • Kadon CaskeyBaylor College of Medicine3 papers
  • Prisca PungweBaylor College of Medicine3 papers · 2 first author · 2 case reports
  • Erini KostandyUniversity of Miami2 papers · 2 first author · 1 case report
  • Spyridon PeppasMedStar Georgetown University Hospital2 papers · 2 reviews
  • Vinh TranBaylor College of Medicine1 paper · 1 first author
Started 20249 on record of 6 seats · 6 published before starting
  • Fouad JaberUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine29 papers · 5 first author · 15 case reports · 4 reviews
  • Aman BaliMayo Medical School8 papers · 2 first author · 1 case report
  • Ritodhi ChatterjeeBaylor College of Medicine7 papers · 4 first author · 4 case reports · 1 review
  • Jinna ChuBaylor College of Medicine6 papers · 2 first author
  • Codey PhamBaylor College of Medicine3 papers · 1 first author · 1 case report
  • Shivram ChandramouliDuke University Hospital2 papers · 1 first author
  • Lauren ShafferUniversity of Pennsylvania
  • Melissa Diaz
  • Rahul MohanUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine

Training

6 training sites.

Months at each site

  • Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center - Houston12 mo
  • Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center11 mo
  • Harris Health System - Ben Taub Hospital10 mo
  • Baylor McNair Campus3 mo
  • Texas Children's Hospital0 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Fellowship5
  • Gastroenterology Fellowship5
  • Transplant Hepatology Fellowship3
  • 2018-2018 Clinical Observership, Department Of Gastroenterology Fellowship1
  • Advanced Heart Failure And Transplant Cardiology Fellowship1
  • Advanced Interventional Endoscopy Fellowship1

Where graduates work now

  • Baylor College of Medicine10
  • Houston Methodist Hospital8
  • GI Alliance7
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston4
  • University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center3
  • Duke University Hospital2

Research

91% of current fellows have a paper since 2023

20 of 22, 220 papers between them

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection

People

Leadership

  • Milena SuarezProgram Director
  • Salmaan JawaidProgram Director
  • Clark HairAssociate Program Directors
  • David SzafronAssociate Program Directors

Find someone

Faculty, fellows, graduates and the people fellows publish with.

More programs at Baylor College of Medicine

ProgramPositions
ProgramPositions
  • Adult Congenital Heart DiseasePositions: 2
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant CardiologyPositions: 2
  • Cardiovascular DiseasePositions: 24
  • Cardiovascular DiseasePositions: 19
  • Clinical Cardiac ElectrophysiologyPositions: 4
  • Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine)Positions: 6
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes, and MetabolismPositions: 10
  • Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine)Positions: 6
  • Hematology and Medical OncologyPositions: 28
  • Infectious DiseasePositions: 11
  • Internal MedicinePositions: 177
  • Interventional CardiologyPositions: 5
  • Interventional CardiologyPositions: 4
  • NephrologyPositions: 11
  • Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care MedicinePositions: 18
  • RheumatologyPositions: 7
  • Sleep Medicine (Multidisciplinary)Positions: 6
  • Transplant HepatologyPositions: 3

Place

Summers reach 94°, winters fall to 46°.

Weather by month

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Commute

997k people live within 20 minutes of Harris Health System - Ben Taub Hospital by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $1,270 a month within 10 miles of Harris Health System - Ben Taub Hospital.

Hazards

  • Hurricanes
  • River flooding
  • Tornadoes
  • Cold waves

Publishes with fellows

  • Hashem El-SeragGastroenterology, 7 fellows
  • Fasiha KanwalGastroenterology, 6 fellows
  • George CholankerilInternal Medicine, 5 fellows
  • Fares AyoubGastroenterology, 4 fellows