New Brunswick, NJ -
Ellen M. Stein is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Distinguished
Gastroenterologist for her work in the Medical field and in acknowledgment of
her past work at Johns Hopkins University and her present practice at Rutgers Health
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Practicing medicine
since 2010, Dr. Stein is a respected researcher, associate professor, and
Gastroenterologist. Dr. Stein knew from a young age that she wanted to be a
doctor, and was inspired by her father’s optometry practice. To begin her
education, Dr. Stein attended the George Washington University School of
Medicine in 2004. She then completed an Internal Medicine residency at Mount
Sinai Hospital in 2007. Dr. Stein pursued Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the
Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, in 2010.
During her training, she worked with the esteemed Dr. Philip Katz, studying
Esophageal Motility. She is now deeply involved with research and clinical care
in this area of study. Dr. Stein is board certified in Gastroenterology through
the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), and she has been actively
maintaining her certification. The ABIM is a physician-led non-profit
organization created by doctors who aim to achieve higher standards for better
care in a rapidly changing world.
She was previously a
Motility faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in
Baltimore, Maryland, and the Clinical Director of Johns Hopkins Bayview
Gastroenterology Division as well as a leader in Informatics for her Division.
She joined Johns Hopkins in 2010 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to
Associate Professor in 2018. She conducted research on the post-operative
recovery of motility functions, specifically for patients after pancreas auto
islet cell transplant. She also completed research with a grant from the ROME
Foundation in building patient-physician communication and relationships. Her
research interests include dysphagia (swallowing disorders), gastroesophageal reflux
disease, esophageal motility, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), constipation, and
other types of gastrointestinal motility disorders.
In her current role, she serves as Director of Motility for the Robert Wood
Johnson Hospital, the academic hub of Rutgers University, and Robert Wood
Johnson School of Medicine in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Their active motility
laboratory has a full complement of motility testing options. She is building a
Motility Center for the care of patients with motility disorders.
To remain knowledgeable and connected to colleagues in the field, Dr. Stein has
been a member of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College
of Gastroenterology (ACG), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA),
and the American Foregut Society (AFS). She was elected to Fellowship status in
the ACP, ACG, and AGA. She currently serves on the Clinical Practice Committee
of the American Foregut Society and was recently featured as a lecturer at
their annual meeting.
On a personal note, Dr. Stein has a new hobby of cooking with her two children,
and she has recently found nature walks and practicing yoga to be a good
balance to her busy clinical schedule.
For more information, visit https://rutgershealth.org/.
