Dr Mark Pimentel MD, FRCP(C)
Mark Pimentel, MD, FRCPC, is Director of the GI Motility Program and Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai, Associate Professor of Medicine at CSMC and Professor of Medicine at UCLA Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Pimentel completed three years of undergraduate degree with honors in microbiology and biochemistry at the University of Manitoba, Canada. This was followed by his medical degree and his BSc(Med) from the Univeristy of Manitoba Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where he also completed a residency in internal medicine. His medical training includes a fellowship in gastroenterology at the UCLA Affiliated Training Program. Active in research Dr. Pimentel has served as a principal investigator or co-investigator for numerous basic sciences, transitional, and clinical studies in such areas as IBS, and the relationship between gut flora composition and human disease.