Events

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Computational Methods to Interrogate Host-Associated Microbial Communities in GI Disease

Long H. Nguyen, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Core Member of the Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Member, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Mash and Liver Fibrosis

David A. Brenner, MD
President and CEO
Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Modifying Metabolism From Within: Harnessing the Power of the Gut for Obesity and Diabetes Management

Barham Kamal Abu Dayyeh, MD, MPH
Executive Director and Associate Dean for Innovation
Director of Interventional Gastroenterology
Director of System Integration in Advanced Endoscopy

Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025

CANCELLED

Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025

CANCELLED

Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024

The Science of Race, Ethnicity and Ancestry to Advance Gastroenterology Care and Research

Keith Norris, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Executive Vice Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
UCLA

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024

Endocannabinoid Regulation of Pain

Daniele Piomelli, PharmD, PhD, MD (HC)
Distinguished Professor
University of California, Irvine

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024

CANCELLED

Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024

Words Matter: Putting Function Back Into Functional GI Disorders

Linda Anh Nguyen, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Interim Chief
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Stanford Medicine

Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024

Development and Repair in Gastrointestinal Epithelia

Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
Executive Director of Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s
Executive Vice Dean for Children’s Services at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children’s Health

Thursday, July 4, 2024

CANCELLED

Thursday, Jun. 6, 2024

The Impact of Health Inequities on GI Disease

Renee Williams
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chair Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Director of Diversity, Institute for Excellence in Health Equity
New York University

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Improving the Precision of Management in Perianal Crohn’s Disease

Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS 
Physician-Scientist in the IBD Center in the Division of Gastroenterology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Clinical and Translational Research
Washington University School of Medicine

Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024

Automating AI for Learning Health Systems

Jason Moore, PhD
Chair of Department of Computational Biomedicine
Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Dynamic Regulation of Intestinal Cell Differentiation by Growth Factor Signaling

Mark R. Frey, PhD, MD
Director of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Samuels Family LA-HIP Program
Director of the USC PIBBS Interdisciplinary PhD Program

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024

CANCELLED

Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024

CANCELLED

Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023

Mechanisms of pain regulation and endocannabinoids

Daniele Piomelli
Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology
Louis Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences
University of California, Irvine

Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023

Management of Upper GI Bleeding

Loren Laine
Professor of Medicine, Chief, Section of Digestive Disease
Internal Medicine; Medical Chief, Digestive Health
Yale School of Medicine

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023

Role of Membrane Trafficking in Intestinal Epitehlial Function

Jean Wilson
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Director, Willed Body Program
College of Medicine Tucson, University of ArizonaTBD

Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023

How Can We Evaluate and Promote Intestinal Health to Prevent Chronic Disease

Thaddeus Stappenbeck
Chair, Department of Inflammation and Immunity
Sherwick Endowed Chair of Inflammation and Immunity
Professor, Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine at Case Western University

Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023

Gut Microbiome and Intestinal Nutrient Sensing

Wendong Huang
Professor, Department of Diabetes Complications and Metabolism
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope

Thursday, July 6, 2023

How Curiosity and Design Principles Can Bring Innovation to Our Practice and Help Our Patients

Vijay Shah
Carol M. Gatton Chairman of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Cancer Cell Biology
Mayo Clinic

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Positioning Therapies for Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Siddharth Singh
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
University of California, San Diego

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Leveraging Energy Expenditure In The Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver

David Cohen
Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy
Harvard Medical School

Thursday, Apr. 6, 2023

Placebo and nocebo in medicine

Anthony Lembo
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, GI Motility and Functional Bowel Disorders Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Thursday, Mar. 2, 2023

Small Bugs, Big Changes: A Microbiota-Centered View of Liver Disease

Bernd Schnabl
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
University of California, San Diego

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023

Improving Risk Stratification & Endoscopic Treatment of Severe Non-Variceal UGI & Colon

Dennis Jensen
Professor of Medicine
Director, VA-CURE Hemostasis Research Group
Associate Director, UCLA CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Group
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023

Making Discoveries in IBD

Maria Abreu
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Director of Crohn's and Colitis Center
Martin Kalser Chair in Gastroenterology
Vice Chair of Research in Department of Medicine
Chair of the International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Diseases
University of Miami Health System

Friday, March 7, 2025

Srinivas Gaddam, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Pancreatic Cancer

Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

Richard Waldron, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Gastroenterology

Friday, Nov. 1, 2024

Quin Liu, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Friday, Oct.4, 2024

Dalin Li, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Gastroenterology

Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

Hyunseok Kim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, Aug. 2, 2024

Talin Haritunians, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology

Friday, July 5, 2024

Yibin Xie, PhD
Assistant Professor and Technical Director, Translational Research Imaging Core
Department of Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical Sciences

Friday, June 7, 2024

Mouad Edderkaoui, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Gastroenterology

Friday, May 3, 2024

Yee Hui Yeo, MD, MSc
Fellow, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Gastroenterology

Friday, April 5, 2024

Shishir Dube, PhD
Research Bioinformatician III, Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, Feb. 2, 2024

Yee Hui Yeo, MD, MSc
Fellow, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Gastroenterology

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024

Jamil Samaan, MD
Fellow, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Gastroenterology

Friday, Dec. 1, 2023

Ali Rezaie
Associate Professor of Medicine
Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Medical Director, Gastroenterology Motility
Director, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, MAST Program

Gastroenterology

Friday, Nov. 3, 2023

Yee Hui Yeo
Fellow, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Gastroenterology

Friday, Oct. 6, 2023

Dermot McGovern
Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Director, Translational Research Inflammatory Bowel and Immunology Research Institute (IBIRI)
Director, Precision Health Medicine
Joshua L. and Lisa Z. Greer Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, Sept. 1, 2023

Andrea Wolf
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, Department of Biomedical Science

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, Aug. 4, 2023

CANCELLED

Friday, Jul. 7, 2023

CANCELLED

Friday, Jun. 2, 2023

Touseef Ahmad Qureshi
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences

Pancreatic Cancer

Friday, Apr. 7, 2023

CSDDRC Scientific Cores
Robert Barrett and Ekihiro Seki—Core B
Suzanne Devkota and David Underhill—Core C
Jonathan Braun and Debiao Li—Core D

Friday, Mar. 3, 2023

CANCELLED

Friday, Feb. 3, 2023

Nirmala Mavila
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Hepatology