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Jill Gaidos, MD

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Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
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Additional Titles

Director of Clinical Research, Yale Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

Vice Chief of Clinical Research, Digestive Diseases

Contact Info

Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

New Haven, CT 06520-8019

United States

About

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Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Director of Clinical Research, Yale Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program; Vice Chief of Clinical Research, Digestive Diseases

Biography

Dr. Jill Gaidos is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Vice Chief of Clinical Research in the section of Digestive Diseases and the Medical Director for the Yale Inflammatory Bowel Disease (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 to provide comprehensive IBD care to veterans around the country. She is also well known nationally through her work with the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and with 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. Dr. Gaidos sees 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 is involved in industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated research focusing on the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease at Yale.

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Education & Training

Fellow
University of Florida (2011)
Resident
Virginia Commonwealth University (2008)
Internship
Virginia Commonwealth University (2006)
MD
Virginia Commonwealth University, Medicine (2005)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Colitis; Colitis, Microscopic; Colitis, Ulcerative; Crohn Disease; Ileitis; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Pouchitis

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Jill Gaidos's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Clinical Trials

Current Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Cassell Connolly Elite Top Doctors 2024

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    Cassel Connolly Top Doctor 2023

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    Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Women in IBD Leadership Program

  • honor

    American College of Gastroenterology Advanced Leadership Development Program

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    Cassell Connolly Top Doctor for 2022

Clinical Care

Overview

Jill Gaidos, MD, specializes in treating patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an umbrella term describing two conditions that cause chronic inflammation within the digestive system: ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

Dr. Gaidos says she was drawn to IBD because of its variety. “I like how sometimes I get to perform a procedure and see a patient only once; but, I also get to care for others over the span of many years,” she says. “You have to think about the entire patient—it’s a mix of acute and chronic cases.”

Dr. Gaidos enjoys helping patients better understand their IBD and the medications that can be used to help treat their colitis or Crohn’s disease. “My goal is to get the patient to return to enjoying life again,” she says. “It’s rewarding when a patient tells me they had no idea how bad they had been feeling until they started to feel better.”

As the director of clinical research for the Yale Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, Dr. Gaidos helps patients understand the treatment options available, as not all IBD medications work for all IBD patients. “We are learning more about what causes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease,” she says. “Hopefully, one day we will be able to better predict which patients we can put on a particular drug that will work for them.”

Clinical Specialties

Gastroenterology

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Contacts

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Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

New Haven, CT 06520-8019

United States

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