Andrew Rhim, MD, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Andrew D. Rhim will be an Instructor of Medicine in the Gastroenterology Division at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A native of Atlanta, GA, Dr. Rhim graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the Eliot Stellar Prize and the Nassau Research Award. He completed his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, receiving the Walter Lewis Croll Memorial Scholarship, among other awards. Dr. Rhim was then chosen to become the Sir William Osler MD Fellow in Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania where he continued his training on the ABIM Physician-Scientist Pathway. He was recruited to join the faculty of the Gastroenterology Division at Penn upon completion of his fellowship.

During his research fellowship in gastroenterology, Dr. Rhim trained in the laboratory of Dr. Ben

Z. Stanger, a noted expert in the use of genetic mouse models to study pancreas and liver development. In Dr. Stanger’s laboratory, Dr. Rhim established multiple lineage-labeled genetic mouse models of pancreatic cancer to study the biology of pancreatic cancer development and progression. He continues to employ these models with the hope that his studies will lead to new approaches to the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and its precursor lesions as well as targeted treatments for pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Rhim’s clinical focus is on the evaluation and surveillance of populations at high-risk for pancreatic cancer, including patients with chronic pancreatitis.