Sonia Friedman completed her undergraduate degree in biology at Stanford University in California and her medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine. She did her medical internship and residency at University of Pennsylvania and her gastroenterology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. She specialized in inflammatory bowel disease during her fellowship and now has a large inflammatory bowel disease practice in the gastroenterology division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the past 13 years and is Director of IBD Clinical Trials.

Dr. Friedman’s research interests include colon cancer in Crohn’s disease, patient adherence to surveillance colonoscopy and IBD and pregnancy.

She is an Associate Editor for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and is a reviewer for Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and theAmerican Journal of Gastroenterology. Dr. Friedman has published mainly on colon cancer surveillance in IBD and IBD in pregnancy and also enjoys lecturing on these subjects.

Dr. Friedman is immediate past chair of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation New England Chapter Medical Advisory Committee. She has been elected as “Best up and Coming Gastroenterologist in Boston” in 2004 and also listed as “Best of Boston” in Boston Magazine 2007. Both honors are based upon peer review. She was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the New England Chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America in 2012.