Florence M. Hosseini - Aslinia, MD

Dr. Florence Aslinia is a gastroenterologist at the Jackson County Gastroenterology practice. She graduated from the faculty of medicine at the University of Tehran Medical Sciences and Health Services with the highest distinction in 1997. She served as general practitioner in underserved areas of Iran and continued her learning journey by moving to France to observe the practice of internal medicine at the Pitié-salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, France in 1999. She pursued her internal medicine training in the United States in Baltimore, Maryland from 2002 to 2005 and in Marshfield Clinic in 2006. After serving as hospitalist for 2 years, she started subspecialty training in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2008 where she also obtained a Master's degree in Clinical investigation as the T32 scholar, sponsored by the NIH grant. She joined the Johns Hopkins Hospital as faculty and gastroenterology hospitalist in 2012 where she had the opportunity to refine her skills in the field of inflammatory bowel disease under the direction of Dr. Theodore Bayless, the developer and director of the Meyerhoff Digestive Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

After having a break from academia for several years, when she served as community gastroenterologist in Indiana, she joined the University of Kansas Medical center in 2017. She was the founder of the first multidisciplinary inflammatory bowel disease clinic in the state of Kansas at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She also conducted 14 clinical trials and investigator-initiated studies during the 5 years that she served at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Some of those studies were on medications on their way to be approved by FDA for management of inflammatory bowel disease. One of her industry-sponsored studies was on using stem cells in management of complications of Crohn's disease. That stem cell product is currently on the way for the FDA approval in the US.

In 2023, she decided to join the community practice again and contribute to the field of gastroenterology, hepatology, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer screening and research associated with those fields in the Jackson County community