Moving Forward in the Treatment of Crohn's Disease

Russell Cohen, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago School of Medicine

Russell Cohen, MD, was born in New York, attended Cornell University for his undergraduate studies, and received his medical degree with honors from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Hospital, and then a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Chicago, where he was also a health studies scholar. Dr. Cohen joined the faculty of the section of gastroenterology in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago in 1996. He currently serves as associate professor of medicine and co-director of clinical inflammatory bowel disease.

Dr. Cohen's research interests are primarily involved in 2 major areas of clinical gastroenterology: inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and health care outcomes. His studies in IBD include investigations of both standard and experimental pharmacological therapies, including novel immunomodulatory agents, as well as studies analyzing the economics involved in the diagnosis and treatment of IBD.

Scott Eric Plevy, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC

Scott Plevy, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is the Director of the University of North Carolina Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Center of Excellence. Dr. Plevy was formerly Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Plevy received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and postdoctoral research fellowships at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Plevy has contributed significantly to the medical literature on Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. He is the author of numerous original articles, abstracts and book chapters. Journals in which his work has appeared include the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Immunity, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Gastroenterology, and The Journal of Immunology. Dr. Plevy has served as basic science section editor for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and is a reviewer for numerous scientific and clinical journals. He has been the principle investigator for numerous ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease clinical trials. His research interests include inflammatory bowel disease, innate immunity, cytokine biology, and inflammation.

Edward V. Loftus, Jr, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Medical School

Edward V. Loftus, Jr, MD, is a Consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic and Foundation, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Health Sciences Center in Philadelphia. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Loftus is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology. He is on the Editorial Board of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, a medical journal sponsored by the CCFA. He also serves the CCFA as the Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Minnesota-Dakotas Chapter, and as the Co-Chair of the Patient Education Committee at the national level. Dr. Loftus has lectured widely on the epidemiology, natural history, and medical management of inflammatory bowel disease. He has received a number of research grants, his interest centering on epidemiologic and outcomes research in inflammatory bowel disease. In addition, he has authored numerous articles, abstracts, and book chapters.