{"id":198,"date":"2013-12-13T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:37:38","slug":"fellow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/education-fellowship\/fellowship-training-at-boston-medical-center\/fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"GI Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gastroenterology Fellows<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\" Varun Angajala, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: University of Southern California\/Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center<\/p>\n

Year Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2023<\/p>\n

Fun Facts\/Interests<\/strong>: Playing tennis, Hiking and traveling, Reading fiction, Cooking<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Ameer Halim, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Albert Einstein College of Medicine<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: University of Maryland
\nMedical Center<\/p>\n

Year Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2023<\/p>\n

Fun Facts\/Interests<\/strong>: Exploring new cities, cultures, coffees, and foods
\n– Reading fictional, political, and theological genres
\n– Following professional sports, especially soccer, basketball, and football<\/p>\n

\"\" Rosa Yu, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Stanford University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Beth Israel Deaconess<\/p>\n

Year Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2023<\/p>\n

Fun Facts\/Interests<\/strong>: Cycling, hiking, strength training, rock climbing, formerly running half-marathons, solo-backpacking & couch-surfing around the world, travel
\nwriting, cooking<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Samantha (Sami) Chua, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Boston University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Boston University Medical Center<\/p>\n

Year Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2024<\/p>\n

Fun facts\/interests<\/strong>: Running along the Charles and hiking, trying new cafes and eating croissants<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Rei Mitsuyama, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Brown University\/Lifespan<\/p>\n

Year Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2024<\/p>\n

Fun facts\/interests<\/strong>: playing soccer (played at Kenyon College), hiking (especially the White Mountains), pour-over coffee, NYT games, craft beer, cooking<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Marya Pulaski, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School:<\/strong> University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Year Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2024<\/p>\n

Fun facts\/interests<\/strong>: Yoga, cooking, gardening, and spending time outside<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Danielle Bellavance, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Boston University Medical Center<\/p>\n

Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2025<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>: GI motility<\/p>\n

Fun facts\/interests<\/strong>: Exploring the south and hiking with her greyhound<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Rachel Thompson, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: University of Minnesota Medical School<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Yale Traditional Internal Medicine Residency<\/p>\n

Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2025<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>: Alcohol-associated liver disease<\/p>\n

Fun facts\/interests<\/strong>: Baking, hiking, yoga, running, and rock climbing<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\" Alexa Trovato, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical School<\/strong>: Albany Medical College<\/p>\n

Residency<\/strong>: Boston University Medical Center<\/p>\n

Started Fellowship<\/strong>: 2025<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>: EoE and IBD<\/p>\n

Fun facts\/interests<\/strong>: Cooking, weightlifting, hiking, yoga, trying new exercise classes<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Gastroenterology Fellows Varun Angajala, MD Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Residency: University of Southern California\/Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center Year Started Fellowship: 2023 Fun Facts\/Interests: Playing tennis, Hiking and traveling, Reading fiction, Cooking   Ameer Halim, MD Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Residency: University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8063,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions\/923"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gastroenterology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}