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
Stephen B. Hanauer received his bachelors degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and his medical degree, with honors, from the University of Illinois in Chicago, IL. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine, as well as his fellowship in gastroenterology, at the University of Chicago, where he is currently Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and Director of The Logan Center for GI Clinical Research and Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Center.
Dr. Hanauer is the author or co-author of hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, abstracts, monographs, and editorials. He also designed and maintains a 5000-patient database for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Registry. Dr. Hanauer is editor-in-chief of Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other medical journals, including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and the American Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Hanauer is the prior Chairman of the International Organization for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD). He also served as a Councillor for Clinical Research on the Governing Board of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) and chaired the IMIBD and Clinical Practice Section of the AGA Council. He is currently a member of the ACG Board of Trustees.
Director, Pediatric IBD Center
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
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.