Deborah Proctor is a gastroenterologist at Yale University where she is a Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and the Medical Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program.

Dr. proctor received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati, she completed her Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and continued her training with a Fellowship in Gastroenterology at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She is Board Certified in Gastroenterology.

Dr. Proctor's clinical interests are in caring for complex IBD patients. Dr. Proctor is also the gastroenterologist for the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center at Yale, where she evaluates and treat patients with HHT who have gastrointestinal bleeding and other gastrointestinal related problems. Her research interests are in IBD (determining the genetics of IBD, correlating genotypic and phenotypic expression in IBD patients, multi-center drug trials for new treatments, association with mood disorders, and assessing patient preference for medication) well as medical education. She was the GI Fellowship Program Director for 10 years at Yale and continues to work on improving medical education at the national level through work with the American Gastroenterological Association and being a member of the Gastroenterology Section of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Proctor has published extensively within the field of Gastroenterology and has presented and lectured widely both nationally and internationally. She has also been highly involved in community service and humanitarian medical projects, particularly in Honduras.