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Each month, the Digestive Diseases Research Center hosts presentations by leaders in the field. A second monthly event, the Gastrointestinal Research-in-Progress Seminar showcases the work of junior investigators and helps establish new collaborations across disciplines. Focus groups in areas such as liver, pancreas and inflammatory bowel disease hold events, as well.

Upcoming Events


Exceptional Visiting Scientist Program

Date
Event
Presenter

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, 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, 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, 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

Gastrointestinal Research-in-Progress (GRIP) Seminar

Date
Speaker
Area of Expertise

Friday, Sept. 1, 2023

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

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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, Nov. 3, 2023

Yee Hui Yeo
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

Past Events


Exceptional Visiting Scientist Program

Date
Event
Presenter

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

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022

Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity: Implication for Liver Disease

Yasuko Iwakiri
Professor of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022

Insights into Inflammatory Bowel Diseases through the Lens of Human and Experimental Models

Eugene Chang
Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine
Associate Section Chief for Research in Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
University of Chicago

Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022

Alterations in Adipose Tissue Biology in NAFLD

Sam Klein
William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science
Chief of Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022

CANCELLED

Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022

Emerging Data On Lipotoxicity in Nash Pathogenesis

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

Thursday, July 7, 2022

The Fungal Microbiome in IBD?

David Underhill
Janis and William Wetsman Family Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Professor and Chair of Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, June 2, 2022

All Roads Lead to the JNK—mitoSAB-ROS Activation Loop in Liver Disease

Neil Kaplowitz
Professor of Medicine
Thomas H. Brem Chair in Medicine
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis: Integrated Multi-OMICs to Identify New Therapeutic Targets

Ramon Bataller
Chief of Hepatology
Professor of Medicine
Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, University of Pittsburgh

Gastrointestinal Research-in-Progress (GRIP) Seminar

Date
Speaker
Area of Expertise

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

Friday, Dec. 2, 2022

Gislaine A. Martins
Associate Professor, Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute
Research Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, Nov. 4, 2022

Rabindra Watson
Director of Center for Metabolic Health, Co-Director of Bariatric Endoscopy, Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Metabolic Health

Friday, Oct. 7, 2022

Phillip Gu
Fellow
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, Sept. 2, 2022

CANCELLED

Friday, Aug. 5, 2022

Gaurav Syal
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Friday, July 1, 2022

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

Pancreatic Cancer

Friday, June 3, 2022

Ju Dong Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Hepatology

Friday, May 6, 2022

Vinay Sundaram
Director of Hepatology Outcomes Research, Assistant Medical Director of Liver Transplantation
Department of Medicine, Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Hepatology

Have Questions or Need Help?

If you have questions or would like to learn more about the CSDDRC, please contact Shelly Lu, MD, or Stephen Pandol, MD.

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