Dr. Z. Gordon Jiang

Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Physician-Scientist Track and co-Lead of the Metabolic Research Hub at BIDMC. He is a transplant hepatologist, physician-scientist in the Division of Gastroenterology, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jiang graduated from Boston University School of Medicine with a MD and PhD in Physiology and Biophysics. He completed both his internal medicine residency and gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellowships at BIDMC through the ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway.

As a transplant hepatologist, Dr. Jiang takes care of patients with various liver diseases, including those needing a liver transplant. As a physician-scientist, his research focuses on fatty liver disease, including translational research in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and alcoholic hepatitis. His research has been supported by NIH, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American College of Gastroenterology, and the Gilead Research Foundation. He also actively works with the pharmaceutical industry in developing novel diagnostic tools and therapeutics for liver diseases. He has mentored over two dozen research and clinical fellows.