Kunnackal John, George | University of Maryland School of Medicine

Academic Title:

Associate Professor

Primary Appointment:

Medicine

Administrative Title:

Director of General Gastroenterology

Email:

gjohn@som.umaryland.edu

Location:

22 S Greene St, Baltimore MD 21201

Phone (Primary):

410-706-3387

Fax:

410-706-4330

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Education and Training

St. John’s Medical College, MBBS, 2009
University of Oxford, MSc, Global Health Science, 2011
University of Oxford, MSc (R), Clinical Medicine, 2012
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Residency, Internal Medicine, 2015
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Fellowship, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2018

Biosketch

Dr. John completed his medical education at St. John’s Medical College in India where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the Pope Paul VI Gold Medal for the best graduating medical student. He then pursued global health and epidemiology research training at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before coming to the United States to complete his residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.

He is currently the Director of General Gastroenterology for the University of Maryland, leading efforts to strengthen outpatient gastroenterology services and availability. He is also a certified genomic cancer risk assessment specialist and sees patients with hereditary GI cancer at University of Maryland. His research areas of interest are epidemiology and clinical outcomes in general gastroenterology, gut microbiome, quality improvement and hereditary GI cancer syndromes. He has presented multiple abstracts at national conferences and authored several publications on these topics.

Before joining the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Dr. John served as the Medical Director of Gastroenterology for University of Maryland Shore Regional Health in Easton, Maryland, where he was also the Vice-Chair for Medical Specialties and the Chair of the Research Review Committee.

Research/Clinical Keywords

general gastroenterology, hereditary polyposis syndromes, lynch syndrome, bowel preparation, colon cancer screening, gastrointestinal dysmotility

Highlighted Publications

John G.K.., Thuluvath, A.J., Carrier, H., Ahuja, N., Gupta, E., Stein, E., Poor Health Literacy and Medication Burden Are Significant Predictors for Inadequate Bowel Preparation in an Urban Tertiary Care Setting. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 2019 53(9) 382-386

Kunnackal John, G., Das Villgran, V., Caufield-Noll, C., & Giardiello, F. M. (2022). Comparison of universal screening in major lynch-associated tumors: a systematic review of literature. Familial Cancer, 21(1), 57-67.

Kunnackal John, G., Das Villgran, V., Caufield-Noll, C., & Giardiello, F. (2021). Worldwide variation in lynch syndrome screening: case for universal screening in low colorectal cancer prevalence areas. Familial Cancer, 20(2), 145-156.

John G.K., Wang L., Nanavati J., Singh R., Mullin G.E., Dietary alteration of the gut microbiome and its impact on weight and fat mass: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Genes. 2018 9(3), 167

John, G.K., Singh, V.K., Moran, R.A., Warren, D., Sun, Z., Desai, N., Walsh, C., Kalyani, R.R., Hall, E., Hirose, K., Makary, M.A., Stein E. M.. Chronic Gastrointestinal Dysmotility and Pain Following Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis. J Gastrointest Surg 2017 Apr; 21(4): 622-627.

Awards and Affiliations

2004 Dr. Manjunath Nayak memorial award for highest marks in Biochemistry

2004 Dr. F.H. Noronha award for best MBBS student in St. John’s Medical College

2006 Dr. F.H. Noronha award for best MBBS student in St. John’s Medical College

2006-2007 Dr. Sr. Glowrey JMJ Scholarship

2006 Mrs. LititiaMisquith award for Catholic student obtaining highest marks in 2nd year

2006 Pio &Arinda Monteiro memorial prize for highest marks in Pathology

2006 Joseph Saldanha memorial prize for highest marks in Microbiology

2007 Dr. Chitra Stephen Solomon Memorial Gold Medal for Community Health

2007 SJMCH Bank of Baroda Prize for highest marks in Community Health

2007-2008 Catholic Medical Guild of St. Luke Bombay Prize for highest marks in 3rd year MBBS

2007-2008 Mrs. LititiaMisquith award for Catholic student obtaining highest marks in 3rd year

2009 St. John’s Medical College Research Society Merit Certificate for best research paper

2009 Certificate of Honor (Academic) for best outgoing MBBS student

2010-2012 Rhodes Scholarship

2011 Dr. and Mrs. Menino D’ Souza prize for best male medical student

2011 Pope Paul VI Gold Medal and award for best outgoing medical student

2011 St. Edmund Hall-University of Oxford travel grant

2012 St. Edmund Hall-University of Oxford travel grant

2012 Rhodes Trust travel grant for research

2014 American Pancreatic Association Young Investigator Award

2015 Nominated to the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society

2016 American Gastroenterological Association – GRG Fellow Abstract Prize

2017 Johns Hopkins Physician Scientist Training Program Scholar

George Kunnackal John, MBBS, MSc, MSc

Education and Training

Biosketch

Research/Clinical Keywords

Highlighted Publications