Dr. Lin Chang, MD, earned her medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine and completed her residency and internship in internal medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She completed her gastroenterology fellowship training at the UCLA affiliated training program in gastroenterology. She is Vice-Chief of the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases. Lin also serves as the Co-Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience at UCLA and Program Director of the UCLA Gastroenterology Fellowship Program.

Dr. Chang’s research focuses on brain-gut interactions underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), specifically, the pathophysiology of IBS related to stress, sex differences, epigenetic and genetic factors, early life adversity, and gut microbiome and the treatment of IBS. She is the recipient of the Janssen Award in Gastroenterology for Basic or Clinical Research and the AGA Distinguished Clinician Award. Lin has authored more than 60 review articles, 130 original research articles, and 25 book chapters on her specialty interests.