Dr George Christophi graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stockton University with a major in Molecular Chemistry and a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He participated in research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed a combined MD, PhD degree from Upstate University in Syracuse, New York, with a focus in immunology. He joined the Physician-Scientist Training Program at Washington University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship in 2017.