Juanita Merchant
American gastroenterologist and physiology researcher
Juanita L. Merchant is an American gastroenterologist and physiology researcher who has contributed to understanding of gastric response to chronic inflammation. She is currently the chief of the University of Arizona Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Merchant was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008, and appointed an inaugural member of the NIH Council of Councils.
Early life and education
Merchant grew up in Los Angeles. Her mother was an elementary school teacher. She attended Stanford University, where she received her B.S. degree in biology. She went on to Yale University where she received both her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in 1984. Merchant was the first African-American to earn a dual degree in medicine and cell biology from the Yale School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency and a research fellowship in gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and her clinical fellowship in gastroenterology at UCLA. Merchant is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine (1987) and Gastroenterology (1993).
Research and career
After completing her clinical fellowship at UCLA in 1991, Merchant was recruited to the University of Michigan, where she was the H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Gastrointestinal Sciences in Internal Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Molecular and Integrative Physiology.
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