Elham Afghani is an assistant professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from University of California, Irvine. She completed her internal medicine residency as well as an extra year as chief resident at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center. She then completed her gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship with additional training in pancreatic diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of expertise include pancreatic cystic lesions and inflammatory diseases of the pancreas.