Rate My Professor Lin Chang

Lin Chang, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chief of the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She earned her MD from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1986, completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center from 1987 to 1989, and her gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA School of Medicine in 1992. She also serves as Program Director of the UCLA Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, Director of the Walter and Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health, Co-Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, and Director of the Clinical Studies and Database Core of the Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center.

Dr. Chang's clinical expertise is in disorders of gut-brain interactions, including irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, and functional dyspepsia. Her research investigates the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome related to stress, sex differences, genetic and epigenetic factors, neuroendocrine alterations, and gut microbiome, as well as irritable bowel syndrome treatment. She has authored more than 185 original research articles, 75 review articles, and 30 book chapters. Key publications include "Bowel disorders" (2016), "V. Stress and irritable bowel syndrome" (2001), "Chronic constipation" (2017), "American Gastroenterological Association-American College of Gastroenterology Clinical Practice Guideline: Pharmacological Management of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation" (2023), and "AGA Clinical Practice Update on the Role of Diet in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Expert Review" (2022). Dr. Chang has received the Janssen Award in Gastroenterology for Basic or Clinical Research, AGA Distinguished Clinician Award, AGA Distinguished Educator Award, Super Doctors Southern California from 2019 to 2026, and Best Doctors in America from 2019 to 2021. She serves on the Rome Foundation Board of Directors, previously as president of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and clinical research councilor of the American Gastroenterological Association Governing Board, and as associate editor of Gastroenterology. She is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and American College of Gastroenterology.