Michael V. Chiorean, MD is the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA and IBD Lead for the Swedish Providence Digestive Health Institute.
After graduating from the University of Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1992, Dr Chiorean pursued with a clinical fellowship in Gastroenterology at his alma mater and a translational research fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Perugia in Italy. He then completed his training with a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr Chiorean is board certified in gastroenterology. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Chiorean was elected as a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American College of Gastroenterology. He is a professional member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America and served as the Chair of the Medical Affairs Committee for the Pacific Northwest Chapter and is currently the chair of the ASGE Small Bowel Endoscopy Special Interest Group (SIG). He currently sits on the patient care committee at the ACG.
Dr Chiorean is an invited reviewer for several publications including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dr Chiorean has authored of over 60 peer-review articles as well as many other book chapters, presentations and abstracts on topics such as inflammatory bowel disease, small bowel endoscopy including capsule endoscopy and deep enteroscopy. He has been engaged in over 50 clinical trials in IBD over the past 20 years. His principal research interests include the use of novel technologies in the diagnosis of IBD, colorectal cancer and IBD, IBD therapy and outcomes, small bowel endoscopy and gastrointestinal bleeding.