Overview
Otto Lin, MD, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who specializes in colonoscopy. Other areas of expertise include inflammatory bowel disease, hepatitis B and C, gastroesophageal reflux disease and peptic ulcer disease. He is also active in outcomes research, particularly as it relates to colon cancer screening.Dr. Lin finds it highly rewarding to follow patients over time. He believes that a positive physician-patient relationship can promote healing.Dr. Lin is the medical director of Quality Improvement for the Digestive Disease Institute at Virginia Mason, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington and a consultant for the Radiological Devices Panel at the FDA. He is also the recipient of several awards including the Franklin Ebaugh Award for Outstanding Research (Stanford Hospital), Glaxo Institute of Digestive Health Resource Award, Cabot Prize (Harvard Medical School) and Clinical Research Award (Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason).
Dr. Lin is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Childhood Volvulus. His top areas of expertise are Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Gas Bloat Syndrome, Gardner Syndrome, Colonoscopy, and Endoscopy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 39 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
1100 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Lin has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Distinguished
- ColonoscopyDr. Lin isDistinguished. Learn about Colonoscopy.
- Advanced
- Berdon SyndromeDr. Lin isAdvanced. Learn about Berdon Syndrome.
- EndoscopyDr. Lin isAdvanced. Learn about Endoscopy.
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
- Gardner SyndromeDr. Lin isAdvanced. Learn about Gardner Syndrome.
- Gas Bloat SyndromeDr. Lin isAdvanced. Learn about Gas Bloat Syndrome.
- Hepatitis BDr. Lin isAdvanced. Learn about Hepatitis B.
- Experienced
- Anal FissureDr. Lin isExperienced. Learn about Anal Fissure.
- Angiodysplasia of the ColonDr. Lin isExperienced. Learn about Angiodysplasia of the Colon.
- Autoimmune HepatitisDr. Lin isExperienced. Learn about Autoimmune Hepatitis.
- Bacterial GastroenteritisDr. Lin isExperienced. Learn about Bacterial Gastroenteritis.
- Barrett EsophagusDr. Lin isExperienced. Learn about Barrett Esophagus.
- Benign Esophageal StrictureDr. Lin isExperienced. Learn about Benign Esophageal Stricture.