Benjamin D. Gold MD, FACG, FAAP

Benjamin D. Gold, MD, went into private practice in 2009, joining CCDHC, GI Care for Kids after over 17 years in academic medicine. Dr. Gold had an outstanding academic career at Emory University where he had been a Marcus Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology, a tenured Professor of both Pediatrics and Microbiology and the Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. While at Emory, Dr. Gold was also Chief of Gastroenterology Service and Medical Director of the Gastrointestinal Diagnostics and Endoscopy Laboratory of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Egleston hospital campus. Dr. Gold is a popular clinician with a loyal following of patients and is one of those rare “quadruple threats” that can do it all – research, teach, provide excellent clinical care to his patients, as well as manage health care programs involving research or clinical-care delivery.

Dr. Gold received his medical degree from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC in 1987. He completed an internship and a residency in Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He completed his research fellowship at the Research Institute Hospital for Sick Children as a Medical Research Council of Canada Research Fellow.