by GI Research Foundation | Nov 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Click Image to Play Listen to Dr. David Rubin (@IBDMD), Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine and Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, as he provides an update for patients (and all of us!) on SARS-CoV2, COVID-19,...
by GI Research Foundation | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
The death of beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek brings attention to a very difficult diagnosis – pancreatic cancer. As Trebek himself noted throughout his treatment, patients with pancreatic cancer can have very poor prognoses, with among the lowest survival...
by GI Research Foundation | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
“She just wasn’t feeling well,” explains Patty Contreras. In September of 2019, her mother, Herminia Contreras, had been having stomach pain, no appetite, and an upset stomach for a few weeks. Herminia’s family urged her to see her primary care physician. Abdominal...
by GI Research Foundation | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Board Spotlight: Howard Grill If the GI Research Foundation is a family – as so many volunteers, donors, and friends affectionately call it – Howard Grill is its next patriarch. For more than 25 years, he has dedicated his time and knowledge to advance GIRF’s mission....
by GI Research Foundation | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
New Approaches to Improving Colonoscopy for Colon Cancer Screening with Neil Sengupta, MD by Anna Gomberg The tragic death from colon cancer of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman—best known for portraying the iconic Black Panther character in Marvel movies – shocked and...
by GI Research Foundation | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
UChicago Medicine Digestive Diseases Center Cancer Survivor, Ferial Jackson “I thought it was the end of the world,” says Ferial Jackson of her diagnosis of colon cancer in the Spring of 2019. After unexplained symptoms of stomach and bowel pain, Ms. Jackson followed...
by GI Research Foundation | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Celiac Disease: Research, Clinical Expertise, and Multidisciplinary Care at the UChicago Medicine Digestive Diseases Center By: Anna Gomberg Celiac disease, a debilitating autoimmune digestive disease, is a high priority for clinicians and researchers at the...
by GI Research Foundation | Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Year of Zoom GIRF 2020 Annual Meeting As part of the GI Research Foundation’s annual meeting, held virtually on August 26th, David T. Rubin, MD, and Eugene B. Chang, MD, GIRF Scientific Advisors, provided updates and insight on the many advances at the University...
by GI Research Foundation | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
By: Anna Gomberg Colorectal surgeon Kinga Skowron, MD, has been awarded a one-year grant from the GI Research Foundation to support her continuing work in colorectal surgery as a clinical associate and researcher (2020-2021), under the mentorship of Neil Hyman, MD,...
by GI Research Foundation | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
By: Anna Gomberg Under the mentorship of David T. Rubin, MD, and with other researchers in the Rubin Lab, researcher Tina Rodriguez will pursue ongoing studies examining anxiety and depression and IBD through a grant from the GI Research Foundation, for the academic...
by GI Research Foundation | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
By: Anna Gomberg The University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center incorporates work to address health care disparities into its tripartite mission to achieve excellence in research, teaching and patient care in many ways. Several physician-led initiatives focus...
by GI Research Foundation | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Biana Lanson, MD, an otolaryngologist in Stamford, CT, understands that sometimes to get the most comprehensive care possible, one has to think outside the box. As a Harvard-educated physician, she prides herself on fact-based, compassionate care for her patients, and...
