Bincy P. Abraham

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Texas A&M University, College of Medicine
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, Houston Methodist
Distinguished Professor and Director, Underwood Center – Fondren Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

 

Bincy P. Abraham, MD MS AGAF FACG, is the Distinguished Professor and Director of the Fondren Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the Underwood Digestive Diseases Center of Houston Methodist Hospital. She is also the Program Director for the Gastroenterology Fellowship at Houston Methodist Hospital. She earned her medical degree from University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, where she continued with residency training in internal medicine and fellowship in gastroenterology. During fellowship, she received specialized training in inflammatory bowel disease and earned her degree in Masters of Clinical Investigation. She also completed a National Visiting Fellow Inflammatory Bowel Disease Rotation program through the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) in Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

After fellowship, she joined as faculty as assistant professor of medicine in the section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Baylor College of Medicine where she served as director of the Baylor Clinic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center for over 5 years before her move to Houston Methodist Hospital.

Her particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease includes the transition of adolescent IBD patients from pediatric to adult care as well as women’s issues and pregnancy in IBD. She chairs the Southern Regional chapter of the CCFA Medical Advisory Committee, has served as president of the Texas Gulf Coast Gastroenterology Society, co-directed the Texas Society of Gastroenterology & Endoscopy Annual meeting, is involved in national committees for American College of Gastroenterology, and member of American Gastroenterology Association, and Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She is board certified in Gastroenterology.