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CEGIR Training Grant Award

Congratulations to Dr. Amiko Uchida

Dr. Amiko Uchida’s CEGIR Training Grant Award has been extended for a second and final year as a CEGIR Trainee Scholar.

Amiko Uchida, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology. She specializes in caring for and conducting research focused on patients with immune disorders of the GI tract, such as eosinophilic GI disease (EGID) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Dr. Uchida is a Utah native and obtained her medical degree from the University of Utah before training in internal medicine at the University of Washington and gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also completed EGID and IBD training.

Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers (CEGIR) is part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN). A unique feature of the RDCRN is a training program that supports investigators new to rare disease research. 

Congratulations, Dr. Uchida!

Dr. Amiko Uchida