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Millie D. Long, MD, MPH

    Professor of Medicine
Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Program
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chapel Hill, NC

Millie D. Long, MD, MPH, is board certified in internal medicine, preventive medicine, and gastroenterology. She is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill). Dr Long received her medical degree from the University of Virginia in 2002. She then completed a residency in internal medicine and a chief residency at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed fellowships in gastroenterology and hepatology, preventive medicine, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), all at UNC-Chapel Hill.


Dr Long’s clinical practice is at the UNC Multidisciplinary IBD Center. Her research interests include the prevention of complications of IBD, women’s health, and clinical epidemiology. She has contributed more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and review articles to the medical literature. She is the current co–editor in chief of The American Journal of Gastroenterology, and she serves as an invited reviewer for journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and Gastroenterology. Dr Long is a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (where she serves on the Board of Trustees), the American Gastroenterological Association, and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.