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Dr. Anish Patel currently serves as the Medical Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) clinic and is the current Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He currently manages one of the largest IBD clinics in the Tricare East Region and is the only formally trained specialist within the Department of Defense. Dr. Patel is a graduate of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He completed his initial two years of Internal Medicine residency at Brooke Army Medical Center and finished his third year of residency at William Beaumont Army Medical Center. He subsequently completed his Gastroenterology fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center. After completing his Gastroenterology fellowship in 2010, Dr. Patel was assigned to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center where he served as the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology from 2013-2015. In 2015, he was selected as the first Gastroenterology physician to complete an Inflammatory Bowel Disease fellowship and graduated from Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, NY in 2016. He returned to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center where he started the first hepatology and IBD clinic and subsequently transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in 2017. To date, Dr. Patel has authored over 25 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and actively an investigator on 6 active clinical trials for experimental IBD medications at Brooke Army Medical Center. He is actively participating in 5 investigator-initiated projects and was awarded a pilot grant through the American College of Gastroenterology for pioneering research in the transition of active duty IBD patients from active military service into the VA system (first active military GI physician awarded this grant). He is a reviewer for 3 major medical journals to include the American Journal of Gastroenterology.