Colon and Other GI Cancer Screening

Dr. James H. Tabibian is an Associate Professor in the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director of Endoscopy for the Department of Medicine at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. His clinical and research interests are in advanced and therapeutic endoscopy and training the next generation of technically- and culturally-competent gastroenterologists. Dr. Tabibian grew up in Central California and completed his undergraduate education at UC Davis. He received his MD degree at UCLA, wherefrom he graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He completed Residency training in the Osler Training Program at Johns Hopkins. Thereafter, he became the first joint NIH-ABIM Subspecialty Research track fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic Rochester. During his Gastroenterology training, he also completed a PhD through Mayo Graduate School, Center for Clinical and Translational Studies (CTSA). Following his training at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Tabibian joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Instructor and Advanced Endoscopy Fellow. Upon completion of his year at Penn, Dr. Tabibian moved back to UC Davis Medical Center as an Assistant Professor and Director of GI Fellow Research, and family needs ultimately brought him back to Southern California in 2017. Dr. Tabibian is experienced in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), mucosal resection (EMR), and luminal stenting, among other advanced procedures. He is highly published in the biomedical literature (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=tabibian+j&sort=date), continues to conduct research (https://www.uclahealth.org/gastro/research/tabibian-laboratory), and is the founder of GI Expert Opinion (https://www.giexpertopinion.com/).