Dr. Jill Gaidos is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the section of Digestive Diseases, Vice-Chief of Clinical Research for the Section of Digestive Diseases and Co-Director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at Yale University. Dr. Gaidos completed her medical school, internal medicine internship and residency training at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia. She completed her Gastroenterology Fellowship Training and the Advanced Postgraduate Program in Clinical Investigation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She then returned to VCU where she was on faculty for 9 years prior to moving to Yale. While at VCU, she was Director of IBD, Director of GI Clinics, and Deputy Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Richmond VA Medical Center. While in Richmond, she established a virtual national program to provide comprehensive IBD care to veterans around the country. At Yale, she cares for patients with complex IBD, oversees many IBD clinical trials, is involved in investigator-initiated studies and is the Program Director for the Advance IBD Fellowship. She is actively involved locally and nationally in the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and in the American College of Gastroenterology.