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Stephen B. Hanauer, MD Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology Chief, Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois |
Stephen B. Hanauer completed a medical degree, with honors, at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in internal medicine, as well as a fellowship in gastroenterology, at The University of Chicago. In addition to his positions at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Dr. Hanauer also serves as Director of the Logan Center for Gastrointestinal Research and Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Center at The University of Chicago.
Dr. Hanauer is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Gastroenterology, respectively. He holds membership in several professional societies and is a Fellow of both the American College of Gastroenterology and the American College of Physicians. His involvement at The University of Chicago includes serving on numerous committees. In connection with the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), Dr. Hanauer served as chair for the Inflammation, Immunology, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section, subsequently also serving as Councilor for Clinical Research on the governing board and as chair of the Clinical Practice Section. Among his many honors, Dr. Hanauer received the AGA Fiterman Foundation Joseph B. Kirsner Award in Gastroenterology in 2001 and the Janssen Award for Clinical Excellence in 2004.
Dr. Hanauer has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, abstracts, monographs, and editorials. He also designed and maintains a 6,000-patient database for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Registry. Dr. Hanauer is Editor-in-Chief of Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, American Journal of Medicine, and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He is the outgoing chairman of the International Organization for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Maria T. Abreu, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Maria T. Abreu completed a medical degree at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Her postdoctoral training included an internship and residency in medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular and cancer biology at UCLA. Before joining the faculty at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Abreu served as Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York.
A Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Gastroenterology, Dr. Abreu holds key positions with several professional societies, including the American College of Gastroenterology’s Educational Affairs Committee and the National Institutes of Health’s NIDDK-C Committee. She is an active member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America and is on the Women’s Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology. She is listed in Castle and Connelly as one of America’s Top Doctors. Dr. Abreu is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Abreu has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews. She serves on the editorial board of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and is co-editor of that journal’s Animal Models section. Additionally, she is an editor for the Journal of Immunology and a reviewer for several other journals. Her research interest is host-bacterial interactions and, in particular, the role of toll-like receptor signaling in intestinal inflammation. Her translational work has focused on genotype-phenotype relationships in inflammatory bowel disease and prediction of response to medical therapies. She is a frequent speaker at national and international symposia on basic science and clinical topics.
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 of several professional organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), 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 is Chair of the ACG Women’s Committee and a member of the ACG Board of Trustees, the CCFA Patient Education Committee, and the Mayo Clinic Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division on Education. 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 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.
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 completed a medical degree at 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 (gastroenterology subspecialty), Dr. Kornbluth holds membership in the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. 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 years at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Kornbluth has published more than 100 articles, abstracts, and book chapters and is the principal author of Ulcerative Colitis Practice Guidelines in Adults, published by the American College of Gastroenterology. 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, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Gastroenterology. Currently, he is a principal investigator on a number of clinical trials examining novel interventions in inflammatory bowel disease. As an educator, Dr. Kornbluth has taught and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally.
William J. Sandborn, MD
Vice Chairman, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
William J. Sandborn received a medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda California. His postdoctoral training also included a gastroenterology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In addition to his positions as professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Vice Chairman of the Mayo Clinic Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. Sandborn currently serves as the Associate Director of Research at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation.
Board certified in gastroenterology, Dr. Sandborn holds membership in several professional societies, including the American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology, and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Immunology, Microbiology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section of the American Gastroenterological Association and Chairman of the International Organization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Among his many honors, Dr. Sandborn was elected to the International Organization for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Sandborn is a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Sandborn has published over 270 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Gut. He is Co-Editor of the textbook Kirsner's Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Dr. Sandborn’s research interests are clinical trials and clinical pharmacology related to inflammatory bowel disease. He is the principal investigator on several clinical studies focusing on the management of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.