Dr. Zinkin received his undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard University and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He then completed medical training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine where he graduated first in his class (“Doctor with Honors”) and Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by gastroenterology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School.

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Dr. Zinkin also has extensive academic and research experience. He completed a Harvard based research fellowship, during which he researched multiple areas of liver disease, including viral hepatitis and liver cancer, and presented his research at major national meetings. He also collaborated in the discovery of a gene involved in congenital pancreatic abnormalities, and published this work in Nature Genetics.