Rahul S. Dalal MD
Clinical and Research Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsDr. Rahul S. Dalal is a clinical and research fellow in gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University where he majored in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and completed his medical degree at Brown University where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He trained in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also completed a certificate program in healthcare quality improvement and patient safety.
Dr. Dalal’s clinical interests are in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and his research in IBD is supported by a T32 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. His specific research interests include prediction of IBD-related complications, comparative effectiveness of biologics, and dose optimization of medical therapies for moderate-to-severe IBD. He received the Fellows in Training Award in IBD from the American College of Gastroenterology in 2020 for his work on ustekinumab dose escalation in Crohn’s disease. After completion of gastroenterology fellowship, Dr. Dalal will stay at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for an advanced IBD fellowship during the 2022-2023 academic year.