JamesTabibianMDPhD, FACP, FASGE, FACG, AGAF

Summary

• Dr. James H. Tabibian, MD, PhD is a Gastroenterologist and Advanced Endoscopist at with Adventist Health Physicians Network and the Medical Director of Interventional GI at Adventist Health Glendale. Prior to joining Adventist Health in 2023, he was a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of Endoscopy at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.
  
  
  Dr. Tabibian attended UC Davis as an undergraduate and he received his MD degree from UCLA with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He completed Internal Medicine Residency in the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program at Johns Hopkins and thereafter became the first joint ABIM Research Pathway fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic Rochester. During his Gastroenterology Fellowship training, he completed a PhD through Mayo Graduate School, Center for Clinical and Translational Studies (CTSA). Upon completion of his training at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Tabibian joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Advanced Endoscopy Fellow and Instructor. At the terminus of his year at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Tabibian moved back to California to join the faculty at UC Davis Medical Center as an Assistant Professor and Director of Fellow Research. Family needs brought Dr. Tabibian back to Southern California in 2017, where he’s practiced ever since.
  
  
  Dr. Tabibian is experienced in endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), and luminal stenting, among other advanced procedures. He is highly published in the medical literature, the author of the book “Digestive Problems Solved: A Patient's Guide to Expert Insights and Solutions”, a biomedical consultant nationally and internationally, and an Expert Reviewer in Gastroenterology for the Medical Board of California.