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Nidhi Goyal, MD

Co-Principal Investigator

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Dr. Nidhi Goyal is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree at UC San Diego School of Medicine and a Masters of Public Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins. She completed her internship and residency in general pediatrics as well as a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at UC San Diego. During her fellowship, she was awarded the Pediatric Scientist Development Program grant funded by the NIH, and she developed a stem cell model for the study of NAFLD at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. Currently, her research interests include studying the genetic risk associations in pediatric NAFLD and she serves as a clinical investigator in therapeutic drug trials in pediatric NAFLD.