About me

Dr. Snapper received his B.S., summa cum laude, from Tufts University (1983) and completed his M.D. and Ph.D (Microbiology and Immunology) from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1990). He completed his Residency in Internal Medicine (1993) at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) and then Fellowship training in Gastroenterology (1997) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) – including post-doctoral work at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). Dr. Snapper spent 18 years at MGH as a physician:scientist rising up the ranks to Associate Chief of Research. In 2011, Dr. Snapper became the Wolpow Family Chair and Director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at BCH and joined the clinical and research faculty at BWH. In January 2020, Dr. Snapper became the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at BCH. Dr. Snapper is Professor of Medicine and the Egan Family Foundation Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Snapper has authored over 200 original articles and book chapters, and receives multiple grants from the NIH, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, the Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Rainin Foundation, and from major pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Snapper is on the editorial board of several journals, is a member of numerous scientific advisory boards of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, served as a permanent member of the Gastrointestinal Mucosal Pathobiology Study Section of the NIH, is on the scientific advisory board of the Rainin Foundation, and is the past chair of the National Scientific Advisory Committee of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation.