Sonia Friedman, M.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. 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 IBD during her fellowship and now has a large IBD practice in the gastroenterology division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been at Brigham and Women’s for the past 17 years and is Director of Women’s Health at the Center for Crohn’s and Colitis. Dr. Friedman’s research interests include pregnancy, fertility, and sexual function in men and women with IBD. Her clinical interests are the care of patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. She specializes in the management of pregnancy and IBD.