Rishi Naik, M.D., is assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Naik is a clinical investigator in translational science, primarily in the field of esophagology. He was Vanderbilt’s Chief Fellow of Gastroenterology in 2018-2019 and in 2018 was appointed as the Editorial Fellow for Gastroenterology’s editorial board.