Rezaie Lab
Ali Rezaie, MD, in collaboration with Mark Pimentel, MD, and Ruchi Mathur, MD, helps lead the MAST Program to find better treatments for the conditions related to the microbiome.
The Rezaie Laboratory focuses on research related to gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorders and the microbiome. These disorders affect more than 15% of the general population. Rezaie is the bioinformatics director of the MAST Program and is the director of GI Motility at Cedars-Sinai.
Personal Statement
As an epidemiologist, I develop large databases of gastrointestinal (GI) motility tests and procedures with millions of data points to infer hypotheses that will be used in drug and device development in gastroenterology in conjunction with work done by my colleagues, Mark Pimentel, MD, and Ruchi Mathur, MD."
Ali Rezaie, MD, MSc
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Studying disturbances in large intestines (25 to 45 million Americans—of which about 66 percent are women—suffer from IBS)
- Microbiome - Uncovering the genetic material of bacteria, fungi, archaea and viruses affecting the GI tract
- Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth - Looking for drug alternatives to treat excessive bacteria in the small intestine that inhibit digestion and absorption
- Biomarkers - Developing therapeutic interventions to combat symptoms and causes of GI motility disorders and IBD
- Alternatives to Antibiotics - Finding new treatments independent of antibiotics
Collaborations
Internal
- Laith H. Jamil, MD
- Mathur Laboratory
- Gil Y. Melmed, MD
- Margie Morgan, PhD
- Shirley C. Paski, MD
- Pimentel Laboratory
External
- Mark S. Riddle, MD, MPH, PhD, Captain, Navy Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Chad Porter, PhD, MPH, Head, Clinical Studies and Epidemiology Enteric Disease Department, Naval Medical Research Center
- Gilaad Kaplan, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Associate Professor, University of Calgary
- Anthony J. Lembo, MD, Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Rezaie A, Park SC, Morales W, Marsh E, Lembo A, Kim JH, Weitsman S, Chua KS, Barlow GM, Pimentel M.
Dig Dis Sci. 2017;62(6):1480-1485.
Rezaie A, Iriana S, Pimentel M, Murrell Z, Fleshner P, Zaghiyan K.
Colorectal Dis. 2017;19(5):468-475.
Gu P, Huang B, Rezaie A.
Gastroenterology. 2017;152(6):e14-e15.
Contact the Rezaie Lab
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Davis Building, Room 5009
Los Angeles, CA 90048