Dr. Jill Gaidos is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the section of Digestive Diseases and the Director of Clinical Research for the Yale Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) Program. 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 national program employing telehealth to provide comprehensive IBD care to veterans around the country. She also was actively involved in the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation in Virginia and nationally as a member of the Professional Education Committee. She is also well known nationally through her work in the American College of Gastroenterology, chairing educational meetings and lecturing throughout the country on IBD. She has tremendous experience in IBD clinical research, running more than a dozen clinical trials in IBD at once in Richmond. Dr. Gaidos will be seeing patients with inflammatory bowel disease (including Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and microscopic colitis). She is always happy to see complex patients with a long history of IBD, those who have been treated with multiple medications, patients with difficult to manage IBD, and patients with concerns about pregnancy and IBD. Dr. Gaidos also will be spearheading clinical trials for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease at Yale.