A native Floridian, Dr. Erin Forster moved to Washington, DC for her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service. She spent the next 10 years in Miami, FL at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital for medical school, residency and fellowship in Gastroenterology, while also completing a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University with a focus in Nutrition. During this time, she also traveled to rural areas in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Tanzania for medical mission work. With a solid foundation in gastroenterology, Dr. Forster then completed a fourth-year fellowship in Advanced Endoscopy at Geisinger Medical Center in north-central Pennsylvania. She gained additional exposure with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), both at the Crohn’s and Colitis Center under the mentorship of Dr. Maria Abreu and at the Cleveland Clinic with Dr. Bo Shen (in advanced endoscopic management of IBD). Dr Forster is the Director of IBD Strategy for the MUSC Health System. In the last seven years, the Patient-Centered IBD Medical Home at MUSC has become a leader in the region in providing comprehensive and cutting-edge IBD care. Dr Forster lives on Wadmalaw Island with her husband, Cory, and son, Adler, their 2 dogs and a flock of chickens.