Jesús M. Luévano Jr., MD, MS 

Education

POST GRADUATE:
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowship: Columbia University Medical Center

GRADUATE:
M.S. from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

MEDICAL SCHOOL:
M.D from Harvard Medical School

UNDERGRADUATE:
A.B. from Harvard University

Research Interests

• Enteric Microbiome
• Colorectal Cancer
• Cancer Screening
• Machine Learning

Clinical Interests

Specialties

Board Certification

• Internal Medicine
• Gastroenterology

Publications

• Luévano, JM Jr, Liu, JJ, Stappenbeck, T. The Enteric Microbiome in Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: A Comprehensive Review of Its Role as a Biomarker of Disease. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology ():10.14309/ctg.0000000000000864, May 28, 2025. | PMID: 40434363. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000864
• Luévano JM Jr, Bowman C, Garcia-Carrasquillo R. Appendiceal Elastofibroma Requiring Ileocecectomy. ACG Case Rep J. 2024 Aug 29;11(9):e01479. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000001479. PMID: 39221235; PMCID: PMC11361629.
• Rocafort M*, Gootenberg DB*, Luévano JM Jr, Paer JM, Hayward MR, Bramante JT, Ghebremichael MS, Xu J, Rogers ZH, Munoz AR, Okello S, Kim JH, Sentongo R, Wagubi R, Lankowski A, Maruapula S, Zhao G, Handley SA, Mosepele M, Siedner MJ, Kwon DS. HIV-associated gut microbial alterations are dependent on host and geographic context. Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 5;15(1):1055. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44566-4. PMID: 38316748; PMCID: PMC10844288. *Co-first authors.
• Bloom PP, Luévano JM Jr, Miller KJ, Chung RT. Deep stool microbiome analysis in cirrhosis reveals an association between short-chain fatty acids and hepatic encephalopathy. Annals of Hepatology. 2021 Nov-Dec;25:100333. doi: 10.1016/j.aohep.2021.100333.
• Gootenberg D, Paer J, Luévano JM Jr, Kwon DS. HIV-associated changes in the enteric microbial community: Potential role in loss of homeostasis and development of systemic inflammation. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2017 Feb;30(1):31-43.
  
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Honors and Awards

• 2025: Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Career Development Award
• 2024: American Cancer Society (ACS) Clinician Scientist Development Grant 
• 2023: American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) FORWARD Program 
• 2022: AGA Institute Investing in the Future
• 2020: American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Resident Clinical Research Award
• 2016: HIV Medical Association (HIVMA) Medical Student Program Scholarship
• 2016: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) Young Investigator Grant
• 2015: Doris Duke Clinical Research Mentorship Award