Sunanda V. Kane, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Sunanda V. Kane completed a medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. Her postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center and a fellowship in the Section of Gastroenterology at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the staff at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Dr. Kane was Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Kane is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. She is a member and Fellow of several professional organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). She remains active in the Women Physicians Congress, the Gastroenterology Research Group, and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). Additionally, Dr. Kane holds key positions on several advisory bodies. She was Chair of the ACG Women’s Committee and is currently a member of the ACG Board of Trustees. She is also the Chair of the CCFA Patient Education Committee. Among Dr. Kane’s honors are the Robert E. Slayton Prize for Outstanding First Year Resident in Internal Medicine (1994), Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Resident of the Year (1996), and six commendations from the Department of Medicine for Outstanding Resident Teacher (1993–1996). She has been the Hilda Schwarz Lecturer at Baylor College of Medicine and the Norman Sifre Lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico, and she was the first female David Bull Memorial Lecturer at Wayne State.

Dr. Kane has authored several book chapters and was the editor for Pocket Guide to Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (2005). She has just completed the AGA Guide to Self-Management of IBD, a book written specifically for patients with IBD. She has published numerous articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature, and she is an invited reviewer for Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, and several other journals. Dr. Kane is a frequent invited lecturer on topics relating to the care and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.