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Gut-Healthy Recipe: Weeknight Ramp and Wonton Soup
Foraged or found at farmers’ markets, ramps (also known as wild leeks or onions) offer a mild onion and garlic flavor and beautiful deep green hue, showing off the first colors of the spring season. A gluten-free recipe, this meal is a great choice for those with Celiac disease. As a plant-based, lower-calorie, low fat main course, it can also support many other healthy lifestyle goals.
Patient Story: Prof. Kelli Morgan McHugh, Opera Singer and Professor
Explains Prof. McHugh, “In hindsight, I’m a person who is always going go to get up, take care of my kids, go to work… I’m going put on some lipstick and I’m going to do my best. But maybe part of the psychology of [a digestive disease], an invisible disease, is that people are accustomed to hiding it. But you have to get past that. I wish I’d gone to [Dr. Dalal], and that I had trusted my gut sooner about not getting the right care.”
2022 Ball Honoree: Ira Hanan, MD, Reflections on a Lifetime of Service
Dr. Hanan’s clinical expertise has helped thousands of patients with a variety of GI concerns and caring for patients was always the centerpiece of his work. “The most gratifying thing is seeing people get better,” he explains. “When they come to you, they’re sick. You give them a treatment plan, you listen to them, and they are getting well again. Now, when patients learn I’m retiring and leaving, I hear them say, ‘You’ve made such a change in my life.’ And that is what it’s all about.”
Honor a living legend: David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Award Recipient
On Saturday, June 4th, 2022, the GI Research Foundation will host their Champions for a Cure Ball...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Turmeric Roasted Cauliflower with Almonds and Apricots
Spring celebrations call for beautiful meals featuring bright colors and flavors of the season....
GIRF Spotlight: Associates Board President, Jordan Hirsch
For Jordan Hirsch, current president of the GI Research Foundation Associates Board, his...
The Importance of Good Ostomy Care, featuring Janice Colwell, Advanced Practice Nurse , Ostomy Clinic Director, The University of Chicago Medicine
Life with an ostomy is often a net-positive change for patients who have endured months or years...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Miso Roasted Sweet Potatoes
This recipe features Okinawa or purple sweet potatoes, along with more familiar orange sweet potatoes, in a medley that is delicious on a bed of rice or as an accompaniment to grilled or baked chicken or fish.
Webinars Discuss New Treatment Options and Mental Health and IBD with David T. Rubin, MD and Alyse Bedell, PhD
The advent of new therapies also raises questions about which treatments are most effective for different kinds of patients and disease states. Dr. Rubin reviewed the most recent science about these treatment options, and how physicians decide among medical therapies for their patients.