Lin Chang, MD
Lin Chang, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chief of the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She serves as the Co-Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience and the Director of the Clinical Studies and Database Core for the Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center at UCLA. She is also the Program Director of the UCLA Gastroenterology Fellowship Program. Dr. Chang’s clinical expertise is in disorders of gut-brain interaction. Her research focuses on brain-gut interactions underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), specifically, the pathophysiology of IBS related to early adverse life events, stress, sex differences, epigenetic factors, and gut microbiome and the treatment of IBS. She is a member of the Rome Foundation Board of Directors and previously served as President of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society (ANMS) and the Clinical Research Councilor of the AGA Governing Board.