消化在线: David T. Rubin
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David T. Rubin, MD, a nationally recognized authority on digestive disease, investigational therapies and medical ethics, has been named interim section chief of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Rubin, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, currently serves as co-director of the medical center's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. He studies novel therapies for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, colon cancer prevention, and clinical medical ethics. He is the principal investigator for multiple clinical research projects and trials of novel therapies, including the first Food and Drug Administration-authorized study of fecal microbiota transplantation for ulcerative colitis.
Rubin earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine, having been selected as chief resident, and fellowships in gastroenterology and clinical medical ethics at UChicago Medicine.
He is a senior faculty scholar in the University of Chicago Medicine Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, created to enhance the communication skills of doctors; an associate faculty member at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; and an associate investigator at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center. He served as director of the gastroenterology fellowship program for 11 years and in 2012 was appointed head of educational programs for gastroenterology.
Rubin is the editor of a leading textbook on inflammatory bowel disease and an author or co-author of 150 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and invited commentary on inflammatory bowel disease, virtual colonoscopy, genetic testing, and colon cancer prevention and detection. He is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, and American College of Physicians and an active national leader in the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.
Rubin has earned many honors and awards in his field, including the Governors Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in 2003 and 2013 from the American College of Gastroenterology, and the Rosenthal Award in 2012 from the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. He is an associate editor for the journals Digestive Diseases & Sciences and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and serves on several other editorial boards.