by Allison Thielen | Dec 1, 2022 | GIRF Profiles, Newsletter
I have been fascinated by medicine and the human body since I was a small child. While other pre-teens spent the early 1990s watching the docudrama series, Rescue 911, or the TV drama, ER, I was disappointed in their fictitious nature and scoured the education...
by Jackie Casey | Aug 1, 2022 | GIRF Profiles, Newsletter
For as long as I can remember, gastro-intestinal disease has been a part of my family. As a child and throughout his life, my dad was in the hospital many times due to bleeding ulcers. Medical understanding then, with total blame on diet and stress, was so much more...
by Anna Gomberg | Apr 14, 2022 | GIRF Profiles, Newsletter
For Jordan Hirsch, current president of the GI Research Foundation Associates Board, his connection to the organization’s mission couldn’t be more personal. “In 2016, I was studying civil engineering at Marquette, in Milwaukee,” says Hirsch. “Then, I developed stomach...
by Anna Gomberg | Nov 5, 2021 | GIRF Profiles, Newsletter, Research and Discovery, University of Chicago Medicine
“It’s important to me to prioritize research that has meaning for patients—work that will relieve patient suffering in reasonably short order,” says Michael Charlton, MBBS, Professor of Medicine. An international expert in the study and treatment of liver disease and...
by Anna Gomberg | Sep 14, 2021 | GIRF Profiles, Newsletter, Research and Discovery, University of Chicago Medicine
Tina Rodriguez, GI Research Foundation Scholar, 2021-2022, spent this past year working hard in the Rubin lab on a complex issue of perennial interest to the IBD community: the connection between mental health disorders like anxiety and depression and Crohn’s disease...
by girf | Apr 8, 2017 | GIRF Profiles
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] NAME: Kyle Dolan HOME: Chicago, IL AGE: 32 PROFESSION: Science Diplomacy HOBBIES: Crossword puzzles...
by girf | Mar 29, 2017 | GIRF Profiles
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by girf | Mar 26, 2017 | GIRF Profiles, Uncategorized
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] NAME: Jacqueline Lopez HOME: Grayslake, IL AGE: 22 PROFESSION: Registered Nurse HOBBIES: Kayaking,...
by girf | Mar 26, 2017 | GIRF Event, GIRF Profiles
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] NAME: Katie Bryan Rainey HOME: Chicago, Ukrainian Village AGE: 35 PROFESSION: Freelance Producer...
by girf | Mar 24, 2017 | GIRF Profiles, Uncategorized
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] NAME: Gary Singer HOME: New Canaan, Connecticut AGE: 62 PROFESSION: Management Consultant HOBBIES:...
by girf | Mar 23, 2017 | GIRF Profiles
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] NAME: Scott Attar HOME: Chicago AGE: 48 PROFESSION: Sales HOBBIES: Crossfit / Fishing / Softball LAST...
by girf | Nov 30, 2016 | GIRF Profiles
No one likes having their nighttime routine interrupted—not even microbes. But whereas a bad night’s sleep might do nothing but leave us a bit bleary-eyed the next morning, the consequences of our gut microbes having their schedule thrown off can be much more dire....
