Dr. Kaya joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. She was accepted to one of the top third medical schools in Turkey after being part of the 0.1 percentile of students in the national exam of Turkey. During medical school, she participated in multiple community service projects with the Rotary International Organization in Turkey, including blood donation projects to raise awareness and mental/mood supporting projects for children in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology hospitals. After completing medical school, she started to work as a research fellow in Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, by 2020. She participated in multiple research projects during her time at the Cleveland Clinic about inflammatory bowel diseases and advanced endoscopic procedures, including endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection. She completed her Internal Medicine training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Central Pennsylvania prior to joining the division.
Education
- Residency, Internal Medicine: UPMC Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA (2024)
- Doctor of Medicine: Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey (2020)
Clinical Interests
Inflammatory bowel diseases, motility disorders in gastroenterology, and inpatient care
Publications
TB, Cengiz, Benlice C, Ozgur I, Kaya G, Aytac E, Kalady MF, Steele SR, Liska D, and Gorgun
E. 2021. “Cost-Conscious Robotic Restorative Proctectomy Has Similar Economic and
Oncologic Outcomes to Open Restorative Proctectomy: Results of a Long-Term Follow-up
Study.” The International Journal of Medical Robotics + Computer Assisted Surgery: MRCAS.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcs.2331
Kaya, Gizem MD; Rivers, Claudia Ramos MD; Dueker, Jeffrey MD; Johnston, Elyse MD;
Schwartz, Marc MD; Babichenko, Dmitriy; Tang, Gong PhD; Binion, David G. MD “S788Long-
Term Use of Bile Acid Sequestrants to Improve Diarrhea and Abdominal Pain in IBD Patients
With Ileoanal Pouch Anastomosis: A Tertiary Referral Center Experience” American Journal of
Gastroenterology DOI: 10.14309/01.ajg.0000859792.19726.19
Kaya, Gizem; Calderon Martinez, Evelyn; Zarandi, Nima; Aljassani, Khaldoon; Cinicola, John
“S46Persistent Risks of TNF Inhibitors Despite Benefits: 31 Years Old Pregnant Patient With
Crohn’s Disease” American Journal of Gastroenterology
DOI: 10.14309/01.ajg.0000897692.91003.89
Gizem Kaya, MD, Ilker Ozgur MD, Emre Gorgun MD “Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in
Colon and Rectum” The SAGES Manual Operating Through the Endoscope
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21044-0_21
Evelyn Calderon-Martinez, Samanta Landazuri-Navas, Gizem Kaya, John Cinicola “Chronic
Oral Amiodarone as a Cause of Acute Liver Failure” Journal of Medical Cases
DOI: 10.14740/jmc4044