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Marla C. Dubinsky, MD
Course Director: Hot Topics

Bret A. Lashner, MD
Course Director: Clinical Decision Maps

Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD

Gary R. Lichtenstein gained his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. He then completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, NC. He also served a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, where he is currently Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and a Professor of Medicine in the Gastrointestinal Division of the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Lichtenstein's current research interests encompass investigational therapies for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Dr. Lichtenstein has received numerous awards for his teaching and his work as a clinician.

Dr. Lichtenstein is the author or co-author of more than 250 books, book chapters, and primary articles. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of Gastroenterology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, World Journal of Gastroenterology, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences, he also serves as the current section editor of Selected Summaries and the section editor of the Print and Media Review in Gastroenterology, and the executive editor of a new indexed journal Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is also as a reviewer for The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the Annals of Internal Medicine, and many specialist gastroenterology journals. Dr. Lichtenstein has lectured at over 250 invited conferences, symposiums and institutional grand rounds.

A fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology, Dr. Lichtenstein has served as Medical Secretary for the American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Section. He is an active member of many professional societies at national level, including the American Gastroenterological Association where he has served as vice-chair and chair of the clinical practice committee and vice-chair of the practice economics committee, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy where he has served on the committee on training, the American College of Gastroenterology where he has served on the education, programs and nominations committees and currently serves on the research committee. He is also a member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America; he has served on their national grants review committee and national physician education committee and currently serves as the chair of the membership committee of the Clinical Research Alliance.

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Scott E. Plevy, MD
Course Director: Journal Update

David T. Rubin, MD

Corey A. Siegel, MD
Course Director: Journal Update

Jean-Frédéric Colombel, MD