Amy Foxx-Orenstein, D.O., FACG is an American gastroenterologist. She is an associate professor of medicine at the

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (MCCMS; formerly known as Mayo Clinic College of Medicine) is a private graduate-only research university based in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. It trains physicians, scientists, and allied ...

a former president of the

American College of Gastroenterology The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) is a Bethesda, Maryland–based medical association of gastroenterologists. The association was founded in 1932 and holds annual meetings and regional postgraduate continuing education courses, est ...

(2007–2008). Dr. Foxx-Orenstein is a fellow of the American College of Physicians as well as a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology. She attended medical school at Des Moines University in

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. She completed

internal medicine Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of ...

residency training at Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania and gastroenterology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. Dr. Foxx-Orenstein is the author of numerous scholarly articles on

gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, sometime ...

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Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein
D.O. Mayo Clinic researcher website. Accessed March 15, 2008.
About ACG
American College of Gastroenterology website. Accessed March 15, 2008. * * American osteopathic physicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American gastroenterologists Des Moines University alumni {{US-physician-stub