Our Mission
- To encourage exceptional medical students to pursue lives as physician-scientists and professional leaders
- To conduct clinical research in the prevention and treatment of digestive diseases
Our model:
- To pair and support exceptional medical students and leading physician-scientists during a scholarly year of full-time, collaborative research within the specialty of gastroenterology
- To immerse students in a clinical practice/research setting alongside a carefully-selected role model
- To engage private donors in support of our mission
- To collaborate with academic deans from leading university medical centers
Why digestive diseases?
- Digestive diseases impact the lives of 60-70 million Americans
- Many digestive diseases are disabling, incurable and/or fatal
- The economic impact of digestive diseases is estimated to be $107 billion annually in the United States alone
DDRF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
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"I wanted to work with patients but I also love research. To combine those interests while in medical school was phenomenal. DDRF gave me that opportunity. I don’t know where else I could have gone to get both a patient & research experience so early in my medical career. It made all the difference in my medical training.”
Jay Desai, MD
Fellow in Gastroenterology
NYU Langone Medical Center
2006-2007 DDRF Fellow |
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