Asher A. Kornbluth, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
The Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York

Asher A. Kornbluth received his medical degree from Downstate Medical Center in New York and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine as both resident and Chief Resident at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. He was a gastroenterology fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center.

A Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Internal Medicine, for Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Dr. Kornbluth holds membership in the American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology, The American Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for which he was selected as both an honored educator and again as an honored clinician. Dr. Kornbluth also serves on the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America's Clinical Research Alliance and the Foundation's Clinical Research Agenda Task Force. He has received numerous awards as a medical educator, including the Teacher of the Year for six consecutive years at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and was selected by the Mount Sinai graduating class for 3 consecutive years to lead the class in their graduation vows, and as Grand Marshall at the graduation Commencement. In 2009, he was awarded the William Dock Lifetime Master Teacher Award in Medicine, by the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York.

Dr. Kornbluth has published more than 100 articles, abstracts, and book chapters and is the principal author of both the initial and subsequent update of the "Ulcerative Colitis Practice Guidelines in Adults,” published by the American College of Gastroenterology. He serves as an Associate Editor for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He has published in, and is a reviewer for, many peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Gastroenterology. Currently, he is a principal investigator on a number of clinical trials examining new therapeutic agents in inflammatory bowel disease, as well as investigations involving new diagnostic methods, responses to medical therapy and the natural history of inflammatory bowel disease. As an educator, Dr. Kornbluth has taught and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally, and is the founder and annual course director of the Mount Sinai IBD Consultants Course.