Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation Honors 16 IBD Clinicians

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation on June 11 awarded its Uniting to Care & Cure Awards to 16 health care professionals “in recognition of their work to help find cures for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and improve the quality of life of adults and children affected by these diseases.”

Among the awardees were the hosts and originators of the Gastroenterology Learning Network’s “IBD Drive Time” podcast, Raymond K. Cross, MD, from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Millie D. Long, MD, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Marla Dubinsky, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Gastroenterology Learning Network’s section editor for Pediatric Gastroenterology, was also honored, along with frequent faculty members for the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases conference Edward L. Barnes, MD, and Michael D. Kappelman, MD, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and James D. Lewis, MD, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Also named as recipients of the Uniting to Care & Cure Award were D. Brent Polk, MD, University of California San Diego; Larry Saripkin, MD, GI Care for Kids, LLC; Kara De Felice, MD, Louisiana State University; Steven N. Fine, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine; Curtis Huttenhower, PhD, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Ramnik Xavier, MD, Harvard Medical School ; Michele Kissous-Hunt, PA-C, DFAAPA, Mount Sinai Medical Center; Richard H. Duerr, MD, University of Pittsburg and UPMC; Anish Patel, DO, FACG, Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas; and Ann D. Flynn, MD, University of Utah Health.