Know Your Gut: Straight Talk on Digestive Problems from a Gastrointestinal Physician

Dr. Plaut is a gastrointestinal specialist on the medical staff of Tufts Medical Center, a major university hospital in Boston MA and a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He graduated from the medical school of Tufts University and trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at two hospitals in New York City: the Cornell Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital and the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. During the Vietnam era he was inducted for active duty with the US Army medical core stationed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and SEATO laboratories in Thailand, where he did research on digestive diseases that affected US military personnel in southeast Asia. After military discharge he continued research on gastrointestinal microbiology and immunology at the State University of New York in Buffalo, and then joined the Tufts Medical Center in Boston where he works to this day. Dr. Plaut continues to do research and patient care, and he teaches medical students and young physicians with emphasis on the topics of digestive disease, liver disease, and the science of gastrointestinal function and its illnesses. He has been a consultant to the U.S. National Institute of Health, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.