Chief, Division of Gastroenterology , Massachusetts General Hospital

Jules L. Dienstag, M.D. and Betty and Newell Hale Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology

Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Wolfram Goessling, M.D., Ph.D.is the Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Heis an oncologist and gastroenterologist who treats patients with chronic liver disease and liver cancer. In his laboratory, Dr. Goessling seeks to identify the molecular signals that regulate liver development, regeneration and cancer formation using zebrafish and other model systems. He received his MD and doctorate from the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. He trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, served as Chief Medical Resident, and completed fellowship training in Hematology/Oncology at the combined Dana-Farber/Partners program and in Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Goessling is the HMS Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Chief of the Gastroenterology Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he holds the Jules L. Dienstag, MD and Betty and Newell Hale Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology.