Sean Spencer, MD, PhD

Sean Spencer, MD, PhD is a Gastroenterologist and Physician Scientist — at Stanford University working to uncover the role of dietary intake and the gut microbiome in gastrointestinal disease. Sean obtained his medical degree University of Pennsylvania, earning his PhD studying nutritional immunology with Yasmine Belkaid, PhD at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), after which he moved to Boston for residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed his Gastroenterology training at Stanford University where he studied fermented food-immune interactions in the lab of Justin Sonnenburg, PhD. Sean has launched a microbiome-focused clinical practice and laboratory at Stanford where he employs novel diagnostic and therapeutic modalities to better understand and treat his patients with GI disease with both diet and microbes. (Stanford, CA)