Steering Committee

The members of the CDWG Steering Committee participate actively in determining the overall direction and content of this website. They also review all the contributions for scientific accuracy and clinical content.

The members of the Steering Committee and their roles are as follows:

Chair: Stephen B. Hanauer, MD
Course Director: E-slide library

Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
Chief, Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Biography

Marla C. Dubinsky, MD
Course Director: Hot Topics

Director, Pediatric IBD Center
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Biography

Marla C. Dubinsky received her medical degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She completed her clinical pediatric gastroenterology training in Montreal, Canada. Currently, Dr. Dubinsky is the director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA and in addition, Dr. Dubinsky is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine.

Dr. Dubinsky’s main research interests are health outcomes and the epidemiology and genetic influences of inflammatory bowel disease in children. Her objective is to study the influence of genetics and immune responses on the variability in clinical presentations of early onset IBD. Additional interests include the use of pharmacogenetics to evaluate the influence of heredity on drug responses and optimizing and individualizing the management of IBD.

Dr. Dubinsky is the author or co-author of numerous papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Gastroenterology, The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and the American Journal of Gastroenterology. In addition, she has authored book chapters for Trends in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Dr. Dubinsky has lectured widely at both a national and international level.

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Bret A. Lashner, MD
Course Director: Clinical Decision Maps

Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Biography

Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD

Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Philadelphia, PA

Biography

Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Biography

Scott E. Plevy, MD
Course Director: Journal Update

Associate Professor of Medicine
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Chapel Hill, NC