William D. Chey, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Director, GI Physiology Laboratory
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

William D. Chey, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Chey also is director of the Gastrointestinal (GI) Physiology Laboratory and Office of Clinical Research at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He received his medical degree and training in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Chey recently served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the latest educational campaign on the Functional Bowel Disorders offered by the Digestive Health Initiative of the American Digestive Health Foundation. He has also been invited to serve on the Clinical Study Design Committee of the Rome III consensus guideline development conference. He has served as Chairman of the Nominating Committee and the Program Development Committee of the Clinical Practice Section for Digestive Diseases Week (2003-4). He currently serves as a member of the Nominating Committee of the upper endoscopy (EGD) section of the American Gastroenterological Association, the Informatics Committee of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the Educational Affairs Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology.

Dr. Chey has authored more than 50 manuscripts and 15 book chapters and serves as a referee for numerous medical journals including ACP Journal Club, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, American Journal of Gastroenterology, American Journal of Physiology, and Gastroenterology. He has served on a number of abstract review committees dealing with H. pylori infection, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for Digestive Diseases Week. He has been invited to participate as faculty in numerous national and international continuing medical education (CME) programs in gastroenterology and was elected to the roster of Best Doctors in 2001.

His research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection, peptic ulcer disease and the functional bowel disorders.