Dr. Kathleen Yan Joins National Jewish Health Gastroenterology Team

Kathleen Yan, MD, a gastroenterologist, has joined the National Jewish Health team in the Division of Gastroenterology within the Department of Medicine. She is a fellowship-trained liver disease specialist who also treats irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), all GI tract diseases and performs colonoscopies. Dr. Yan sees patients on the National Jewish Health campus in Denver.

Dr. Yan is originally from New Jersey and received her medical degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Yan completed her residency and two fellowships, one in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the other in Transplant Hepatology, at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado.

She has conducted studies involving bacterial infections in cirrhosis, marijuana use among liver transplant recipients and predictors of colorectal cancer to name a few. Her studies have been published in BMC Gastroenterology, Hepatology Communications and Liver Transplantation. She was the recipient of the 2023 Advanced / Transplant Hepatology Fellow Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).