Christina Y. Ha MD, FACG, AGAF

Christina Ha, MD, is an Associate Professor with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She received her BA from Harvard College and MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed an internal medicine residency and GI fellowship at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and as the Present-Levison Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Fellow at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

After the fellowship, she joined the faculty as Co-Associate Director of Clinical Research at the Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Associate Fellowship Director for the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. From there, she joined the Tamar and Vatche Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases as the Associate Director of Clinical Programs for the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine prior to moving to Cedars-Sinai.

Her clinical research interests focus on the impact of aging on the natural history of inflammatory bowel diseases, particularly with respect to therapeutics, morbidity, and mortality. She is the Director of the IBD Fellowship Program at Cedars-Sinai and has been involved in medical education initiatives locally and nationally.