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:
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
Chief, Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Director, Pediatric IBD Center
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Bret A. Lashner is a graduate of Haverford College, Haverford, PA, and New York University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Chicago, and a Masters degree in Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After seven years on the faculty of the University of Chicago involved with a busy clinical practice and IBD clinical research, Dr. Lashner joined the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH, where he is currently a Professor of Medicine and serves as the director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr. Lashner's research within IBD includes such topics as cancer prevention with folic acid, optimization of cancer surveillance techniques, risk factors for malignancy, IBD risk in families, and epidemiologic determinants of disease. He is currently the co-chair of the Cleveland Clinic’s General Clinical Research Center Advisory Committee.
Dr. Lashner is an associate editor of The American Journal of Gastroenterology and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He also serves on the grant review committee of the American College of Gastroenterology, and has previously served in a similar capacity for the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America.
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago
Department of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH
Professor of Hepatogastroenterology
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Lille
Lille, France
In accordance with Policy, the Steering Committee members have indicated if they have any conflict of interest, and if so, it has been resolved.