Basile Njei, MD, PhD, MPH, FACHDM

Dr. Basile Njei is a graduate of the Yale Ph.D. in Investigative Medicine and Harvard Global Clinical Scholars programs. He received his medical doctorate with honors from The University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon, and was awarded the prestigious British Chevening scholarship to pursue public health training at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. After earning a Master’s in Public Health, he completed residency training at the University of Connecticut and a Gastroenterology Fellowship at Yale University. During his training, Dr. Njei received multiple honors, including the Howard Levine-MD Science Award, ACG Fellow-in-Training Award, AASLD Fellow Travel Award, AASLD Young Investigator Award, Dr. James Boyer Fellow Travel Award, and the Samuel Kushlan Award for Excellence in Research.

In 2017, Dr. Njei was appointed adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale. Over the next five years, he practiced as a gastroenterologist in underserved communities across Maryland, Delaware, and Ohio, where he performed thousands of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies and colonoscopies, particularly for minority and underserved populations. Dr. Njei has also collaborated with the U.S. Embassy in Cameroon and the Ministry of Public Health to promote medical education.

Currently, Dr. Njei is the Co-Director of the International Medicine Program within Yale’s Section of Digestive Diseases and serves as a gastroenterologist at the West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital in Connecticut. His research centers on applying artificial intelligence and genetics to enhance the diagnosis of chronic liver diseases.