Esteban Figueroa, MD, cares for patients who have inflammatory bowel disease, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s. He also offers endoscopy for colon cancer screening and diagnosis of general gastrointestinal conditions such as GERD and dyspepsia. Born in Ithaca, New York, Dr. Figueroa lived most of his childhood in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He went to undergraduate and medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco, followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Virginia. During medical school, Dr. Figueroa was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. In 2017, during his UCSF internal medicine residency, he was awarded the National Hispanic Medical Association Resident of the Year. He served as chief fellow for the final year (2019-2020) of his gastroenterology fellowship at UVA. Dr. Figueroa is married with two children. He enjoys playing soccer, cooking, and watching English Premier soccer league games and Formula 1 auto racing.