Dinesh Pashankar, MD, MBA

Dr. Pashankar completed his basic medical training in India and in the UK. He completed fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. He has MBA in healthcare from Yale School of Management and has expertise in process and quality improvement.

His clinical and research interest is in inflammatory bowel disease in children. He is the director of Yale Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program. He runs a multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel disease clinic at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital in New Haven. He has published a number of clinical studies in pediatric gastroenterology and inflammatory bowel diseases.

He is a medical director of Yale Clinical Optimization Service and works to improve efficiency in ambulatory operations of Yale Medicine clinical sections in pediatric and adult specialties. He is a regional medical director of Yale Medicine ambulatory services and oversees Yale Medicine clinics in New Haven region.