Dr. Evan Dellon is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology.
Dr. Dellon received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. After residency, he remained at Massachusetts General for two years working as a Hospitalist and Assistant in Medicine as well as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He subsequently moved to Chapel Hill and completed both a clinical and a research fellowship in Gastroenterology at UNC, during which he received a master’s degree in Epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health. His clinical training has also included experience with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic ultrasound.
Dr. Dellon has been at the Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing since 2008. Dr. Dellon’s main research interest is in the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and other eosinophilic GI disorders. He also has research interests in advanced endoscopic techniques. He is a member of several professional societies, including the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the North Carolina Society of Gastroenterology, and he is also a member of The International GI Eosinophil Researchers (TIGERS). Dr. Dellon has received research funding from NIH, the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterologic Association, CURED Foundation, UNC, AstraZeneca, Meritage, Receptos, and Regeneron.