Manasi Agrawal, MD

Manasi Agrawal, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a gastroenterologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital, with focus in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Agrawal’s additional affiliations include the Department of Environmental Medicine at Mount Sinai and Center for Molecular Prediction of IBD, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Agrawal is the Director of Environmental Gastroenterology in the Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology.  In this role, Dr. Agrawal will advance research on exposomics in gastrointestinal diseases, mentor trainees, and help establish Mount Sinai as a leader in environmental gastroenterology and preventive medicine. Her research focuses on the role of the environment on IBD risk, towards disease prediction and prevention. She has ongoing works to characterize the role of PFAS, pesticides, microplastics, metals, and related exposures on intestinal inflammation and IBD. She is also interested in understanding the role of environmental shifts in the rising IBD in the global south and she collaborates with several global research networks. Dr. Agrawal is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases K23 Career Development Award to study early life risk factors for IBD, the International Organization for the Study of IBD, the American College of Gastroenterology, the Helmsley Trust Fund, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, among others.

Dr. Agrawal’s clinical focus is in caring for patients with IBD. She participates in writing guidelines relating to IBD care and is involved in committees with the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She serves as the Secretary of the New York Crohn's and Colitis Organization as well as on editorial boards of multiple GI journals.

Dr. Agrawal graduated from Gandhi Medical College, India, with academic distinctions and received the Indian Council of Medical Research scholarship. Dr. Agrawal trained in Internal Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn and in Gastroenterology at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She completed advanced fellowships in IBD at Lenox Hill Hospital Northwell Health and at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed Masters in Biostatistics and the Career MODE Program at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York.