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Bowel Frequency: How Often Should You Really Go? (Visceral #2)

Bowel Frequency: How Often Should You Really Go? (Visceral #2)

by GI Research Foundation | Oct 24, 2024 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients

 Visceral: Episode 12Bowel Frequency: How Often Should You Really Go? The GI Research Foundation produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center. In this episode, we had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Jeffrey Nathanson, partner and...
Seeing Clearly: Intestinal Ultrasound in Crohn’s & Colitis Care (Visceral podcast episode 11)

Seeing Clearly: Intestinal Ultrasound in Crohn’s & Colitis Care (Visceral podcast episode 11)

by GI Research Foundation | Aug 15, 2024 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients

Visceral: Episode 11Seeing Clearly: Intestinal Ultrasound in Crohn’s & Colitis Care The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Noa Krugliak Cleveland,...
Voices of Resilience: IBD Patients Share Their Journeys (Visceral podcast episode 10)

Voices of Resilience: IBD Patients Share Their Journeys (Visceral podcast episode 10)

by GI Research Foundation | Jun 19, 2024 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients

Visceral: Episode 10Voices of Resilience: IBD Patients Share Their Journeys The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center. In this compelling episode, host Anna Gomberg brings together four...

Riback Family Patient Story: 2023 GI Research Foundation Annual Ball

by GI Research Foundation | May 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

Metabolites in the Midnight Hour: The Gut-Sleep Connection in Crohn’s and Colitis (Visceral podcast episode 9)

Metabolites in the Midnight Hour: The Gut-Sleep Connection in Crohn’s and Colitis (Visceral podcast episode 9)

by GI Research Foundation | Apr 29, 2024 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients

Visceral: Episode 9Metabolites in the Midnight Hour: The Gut-Sleep Connection in Crohn’s and Colitis With David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine; and Ashley Sidebottom, PhD, Research Assistant Professor and Platform Director, Host-Microbe...
Visceral: Podcast Episode – Keeping it Moving: Gut Motility and Digestive Health (episode 8)

Visceral: Podcast Episode – Keeping it Moving: Gut Motility and Digestive Health (episode 8)

by GI Research Foundation | Feb 16, 2024 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients

Visceral: Episode 8Keeping it Moving: Gut Motility and Digestive Health With Lalitha Sitaraman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie. Lalitha...
Visceral: Podcast Episode – Caring for Children and Teens with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis (episode 7)

Visceral: Podcast Episode – Caring for Children and Teens with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis (episode 7)

by GI Research Foundation | Dec 30, 2023 | Newsletter, Resources for Patients

Visceral: Episode SevenCaring for Children and Teens with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis With Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, the University of Chicago Medicine Join us for a candid conversation about pediatric inflammatory bowel disease...
Patient Story: Prof. Kelli Morgan McHugh, Opera Singer and Professor

Patient Story: Prof. Kelli Morgan McHugh, Opera Singer and Professor

by Anna Gomberg | May 9, 2022 | Grateful Patients, Newsletter, University of Chicago Medicine

Kelli Morgan McHugh is an operatic soprano, an Associate Professor of Instruction in Music Theatre, and vocal coordinator for the Music Theatre Certificate Program at Northwestern University. Growing up in Acworth, Georgia, Prof. McHugh was the first person in her...
2021 GIRF Scholar Kinga Skowron Olórtegui, MD, Update: Pouchitis Risk Factors Database

2021 GIRF Scholar Kinga Skowron Olórtegui, MD, Update: Pouchitis Risk Factors Database

by Anna Gomberg | Sep 14, 2021 | Newsletter, Research and Discovery, University of Chicago Medicine

Sometimes, the best recommendation for an ulcerative colitis patient with a damaged colon is to surgically remove the organ entirely and create a new ‘pouch’ made of small intestine tissue. This pouch, called a J pouch because of the shape of the sutures used to...
2021 GIRF Scholar Tina Rodriguez Update: Investigating Inflammation, IBD and Mental Health Disorders

2021 GIRF Scholar Tina Rodriguez Update: Investigating Inflammation, IBD and Mental Health Disorders

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...

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