Esophageal Pain

MD, is a graduate of University of Delhi, India, and has been a resident of the United States since 1978. Following initial training in internal medicine and a three-year clinical and research fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University, he became an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Gastrointestinal Function Laboratory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1985. Dr. Mittal rose in ranks and stayed at UVA until 1997. For the last twelve years, he has been a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California. He is a passionate teacher, an empathetic clinician, and a keen investigator.