Project Leaders

Marla C. Dubinsky, MD is Director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los  Angeles, CA

Anthony Otley MD,  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Research Scholar, Faculty of Medicine Dalhousie University and Head, Division of Gastroenterology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

The late Susan Moyer - Director of IBD Program, Division of Gastroenterology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Wallace V. Crandall, MD, is Director of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Nationwide Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Lee A. Denson, MD, Attending physician in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Education

Mary Zachos (Leader) - Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fellows: Dr. Mary Sherlock - Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Orlee Guttman - Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Eric Benchimol - Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Miriam Kaufman MD FRCPC - Adolescent Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Healthcare

Janis Arnold (Leader) LICSW - Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital, Boston

Health and Lifestyle

Meena Thayu MD  (Leader) - Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Rose Graham-Maar, MD - Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Judith Kelsen, MD, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Joel Rosh MD, Morristown, NJ (CCFA Representative)

Dana Boctor MD - Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Alberta Children's Hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

Self-Help

Dr. Eva Szigethy MD, PhD  (Leader) -  Psychiatry, Medical Coping Clinic of the
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh,  Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Janis Arnold LICSW -  Children's Hospital of Boston

Laura Mackner, PHD - Department of Psychology Ohio State University

Cheryl Blank MD, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and private practice in Maine.