Professional Bio
Dhyanesh Patel, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
He graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Carolina Honors College, and he earned his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina with Alpha Omega Alpha. He was awarded the Julius Sagel Excellence in Internal Medicine Award in 2012. He completed hits residency and fellowship at Vanderbilt. During his internal medicine residency, he was awarded the Best Resident Teacher (Hugh Jackson Morgan Teaching Award) in 2014 and subsequently selected as Vanderbilt's chief fellow for his gastroenterology fellowship. He was also awarded the Divya and Anil Patel Gastroenterology Fellowship Award in 2017 and the Richard Schneider Gastroenterology Fellowship Award in 2018.
Dr. Patel's clinical focus is on esophageal disorders with research focused on achalasia, esophageal motility disorders, GERD and extra-esophageal reflux. He has been involved in the development of novel diagnostic tools that reduce diagnostic latency and can monitor therapy response in patients with esophageal disorders.
He has over 40 peer reviewed publications and is also the editor for two books (Obesity and Esophageal Disorders, 1st edition, 2022 and Evaluation and Management of Dysphagia: An Evidence Based Approach, 1st edition, 2020). He has been invited to give lectures at multiple national and international venues due to his expertise in esophageal disorders and serves on editorial boards for two of the highest impact journals in his field, Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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Education
MD - Medical University of South Carolina, 2012
Residency - Internal Medicine - Vanderbilt University, 2015
Fellowship - Gastroenterology - Vanderbilt University, 2018
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307