Staff Gastroenterologist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Medfield, MA, United States
Dr. Javier Villafuerte Gálvez is a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, with clinical expertise in immune-mediated digestive disorders, particularly Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). He leads an NIH-funded research program (K23) investigating immune, metabolic, and microbial predictors of CDI outcomes. His work has identified novel biomarkers—including stool IL-1β and toxin concentrations—to differentiate CDI from asymptomatic carriage and predict adverse outcomes. He is also a part of the Celiac Center at BIDMC and has investigated long-term adherence to a gluten-free diet and ethnoracial factors in celiac disease diagnosis. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedical Informatics to apply computational approaches to redefine the C. difficile colonization-to-infection continuum.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
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