Kim L. Isaacs MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the GI Fellowship Program for UNC Hospitals and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Dr. Isaacs earned her BS in Biochemistry, her PhD in Basic Health Sciences/Pathology, and her MD at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She continued her postgraduate education in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including a fellowship in the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition.

Dr. Isaacs is a member of the Professional Education Committee of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. She also serves as an ad hoc reviewer on the CCFA National Grants Review Committee. She is a recent recipient of the CCFA's Premier Physician Award.

Dr. Isaacs is the author or co-author of numerous journal articles, abstracts, and editorials, in addition to contributions to textbooks, book reviews, papers and exhibits. She is an Associate Editor and Section Editor of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and a manuscript peer reviewer with Digestive Diseases and Science, Gastroenterology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.