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V. R. Muthusamy, MD, MAS, FACG (he/him/his)

Medical Director of Endoscopy, UCLA Health System; Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/UCLA Health
Sherman Oaks, CA

V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS, FACG, is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is the Medical Director of Endoscopy for the UCLA Health System. His clinical research interests include endoscopic eradication techniques for Barrett's esophagus, clinical applications of EUS and ERCP as well as endoscope reprocessing. Dr. Muthusamy has helped develop quality metrics in Barrett's esophagus and led the initial multi-center evaluation of the first single-use duodenoscope. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of California Irvine (UCI) Medical Center, where he was Director of the GI Fellowship Program, as well as director of Endoscopic Ultrasound at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Muthusamy completed his undergraduate work at Stanford University with distinction and went to medical school at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he graduated with Honors. His residency was undertaken at Duke University Medical Center where he served as assistant chief resident and traveled abroad to study evidence-based medicine under Dr. David Sackett at Oxford University. He completed his GI fellowship at UCSF before undertaking his advanced endoscopy fellowship at UCI, which he completed in 2001. Dr. Muthusamy is a past-president of the Orange County GI Society and a current Councilor and a Past-President of the Southern California Society of Gastroenterology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA). He recently completed two three-year terms as the ACG Governor for Southern California and is the immediate past Chair of the AGA ’s Center for GI Innovation and Technology. He has previously served as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Gastroenterology and as Co-Director of the ASGE’s Improving Quality and Safety in Your Endoscopy Unit course.

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