Priya Sehgal is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology & Hepatology) at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her clinical focus is primarily IBD and research interest is the impact of visceral adiposity on outcomes in IBD. She attended medical school at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she stayed on for Internal Medicine Residency. She then completed Gastroenterology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center, followed by fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also completed an MPH in Health Policy from Harvard's School of Public Health and a Masters in Patient Oriented Research from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.