Meet the Principal Investigator
Ezra Burstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Burstein is a gastroenterologist and physician-scientist. He received his medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru, and completed Internal Medicine residency training at UT Southwestern and Gastroenterology fellowship training at the University of Michigan. His research training was under the mentorship of Dr. Gary Nabel at the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH, and under Dr. Colin Duckett, at University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. After completion of his training, he joined the Faculty at the University of Michigan (2002-2008) and was recruited to UT Southwestern in 2008, joining the Departments of Internal Medicine (Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases) and Molecular Biology. He has served as Division Chief of Digestive and Liver Diseases, and as Interim Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He currently serves as Director of the Inflammation & Digestive Diseases Research Center, and as Director the Jean Wilson Society for physician-scientists, in the Department of Internal Medicine.
Current Lab Members
Dongmei Shi, M.D.
Visiting Senior Researcher
Past Members
2005-2007 – Gabriel Maine, Ph.D.
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Pathology. Oakland University School of Medicine. Rochester, Michigan. Director, Immunophenotyping Laboratory. Department of Clinical Pathology. Beaumont Hospital. Royal Oak, Michigan.
2005-2013 – Xicheng Mao, Ph.D.
Current position: Bank Business Intelligence Analyst at USAA. Dallas, Texas.
2006 – Gopakumar Iyer, M.D.
Current position: Associate Professor at Weill Cornell and Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. New York City, New York.
2006-2007 – Aparna Repaka, M.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology Section at VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts.
2006-2008 – Nathan Gluck, M.D., Ph.D. Co-mentor. Doctoral Program in Biochemistry, Hebrew University in Jerusalem – Israel.
Current position: Staff Physician. Sourasky Tel Aviv Medical Center. Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine – Israel.
2007-2013 – Haiying Li, Ph.D.
Current position: Alliance Manager, Office of Technology Development. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2008-2009 – Iram Zaidi, Ph.D.
Current position: Unknown.
2008 – Javier Villafuerte, M.D.
Current position: Instructor. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2010-2012 – Lillienne Chan, M.D.
Current position: Private practice. Dallas, Texas.
2010-2014 – Reid Weisberg, M.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatic Diseases. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2010-2014 – Peter Starokadomskyy, Ph.D.
Current position: Senior Scientist, Kyverna. San Francisco, California.
2012-2015 – Nick Norris, M.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2013-2015 – Luis Sifuentes-Dominguez, M.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2013-2016 – Ernesto Llano, M.D.
Current position: Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2013-2016 – Naoteru Miyata, M.D., Ph.D.
Current position: Private practice. Tokyo, Japan
2014-2015 – Linda Geng, M.D., Ph.D.
Current position: Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
2014-2016 – Rebecca Faulkner, Ph.D.
Current position: Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive & Liver Diseases. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2014-2019 – Lindsey Morris, Ph.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2015-2016 – Kayci Huff, M.D., Ph.D.
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
2016 – Da Jia, Ph.D.
Current position: Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Sichuan University. Chengdu, China.
2016-2019 – Qing Chen, M.D.
Current position: Staff Surgeon, Tongji University Medical School. Shanghai, China
2018-2020 – Shuai Tan, Ph.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Chongqing University. Chongqing, China.
2019-2020 – Noor Neema, M.D.
Current position: Pediatric GI fellow, University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2020-2021 – Colin Bergstrom, M.D. Post-doctoral fellow (supported by TARDIS / BWF program)
Current position: Hematology/Oncology fellow, Stanford University. Palo Alto, California
2020-2022 – Jacobo Santolaya, M.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology. UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, Texas.
2020-2026 – Hannes Buck
2021-2023 – David Willcutts, M.D.
Current position: Pediatric Hepatology fellowship, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
2022-2024 – Tiffany Freeny Wright, M.D.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Join Our Lab
There are frequent opportunities to join our lab.If you have an interest in the research that we are conducting and would like to be considered for a position in the lab, please send an email including CV and a letter of interest to Ezra Burstein.