Professional Education Opportunities

Overview: Professional Education Programs
For almost 40 years, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) has supported research grant programs to develop and encourage the best and brightest researchers. Now, CCFA wants to develop and encourage the best and brightest clinical physicians who have an extensive understanding of how to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Regarding the current state of IBD care today, CCFA acknowledges that:

• Training in IBD requires specialized exposure and resources.
• There is currently a shortage of gastroenterologists with specialty training in IBD.
• IBD continues to advance in complexity of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
• In the absence of concentrated exposure to a complicated subspecialty like IBD, gastroenterologists are more likely to focus on other areas of specialty practice.
• Most generalist GI doctors are ill-prepared to confidently care for IBD patients.

To address these educational and training needs, CCFA has created the CCFA National Preceptorship Program and the CCFA National Visiting IBD Fellow Program. These programs were developed to achieve specific long-range outcomes:

• Better IBD care for all patients regardless of geography or economics.
• Expand and enhance the role of the CCFA in IBD training nationwide.
• Promote a new and larger generation of highly trained clinical IBD doctors.

IBD Preceptorship
2009-2010 application process is closed.

The IBD Preceptorship program accepts qualified community gastroenterologists for a three-day visit to a leading IBD center. Expenses are covered by CCFA. Through participation in IBD Clinics, inpatient services, lectures and conferences, this program seeks to:

• Deliver highly skilled IBD training to a wide range of GI doctors regardless of previous experience or current treatment approach.
• Provide stimulus and opportunity for interested GI doctors to better develop their skills in IBD.
• Expose private practice GI doctors to clinical practices employed at leading IBD centers.
• Share evidence-based and expert opinion-based approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and management of IBD.

View more information on IBD Preceptorship program
The 2007-2008 program was funded by an educational grant from Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals.

Visiting Fellow Program
2009-10 Application process is closed.  Applications are now being accepted for the 2010-11 program.

The Visiting IBD Fellow program accepts qualified gastroenterology fellows for a one-month rotation at a leading IBD center. Expenses are covered by CCFA. Through hands-on exposure in treating and managing IBD patients, this program seeks to:

• Deliver highly skilled IBD training to a wide range of GI fellows regardless of previous experience or current treatment approach.
• Provide stimulus and opportunity for interested GI fellows to better develop their skills in IBD.
• Expose non-IBD focus GI fellows to clinical practices employed at IBD Centers of Excellence.
  Share evidence-based and expert opinion-based approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and management of IBD.

Congratulations to the 2009-10 Visiting IBD Fellows:

The Visiting IBD Fellows represent the best and brightest applicants from the gastroenterology fellow community.  Congratulations to the following physicians and their home institutions.  Many thanks to the leading IBD centers and their faculty for their support of the Visiting IBD Fellow program.

Visiting IBDFellow	Home Institution	Hosting Physician	Host IBD Center
Dr. Alla Grigorian	University of Kentucky	Dr. Vijay Yajnik	Massachusets General Hospital
Dr. Andrew Weinberg	University of Arizona	Dr. David Rubin	University of Chicago Medical Center
Dr. Anne Tuskey	John Hopkins	Dr. Kim Isaacs	University of North Carolina
Dr. Daniel Vernig	University of Minnesota	Dr. David Rubin	University of Chicago Medical Center
Dr. David Labowitz	University of Illinois at Chicago	Dr. David Rubin	University of Chicago
Dr. Deepak Vadada	Lenox Hill Hospital	Dr. Lloyd Mayer	Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Jeffrey A. Brennan	Millcreek Community Hospital, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine	Dr. Miguel Regueiro	University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Jeffrey Molloy	Brooke Army Med Center	Dr. Uma Mahadevan-Velayos	University of California at San Francisco
Dr. Julie Foont	Brown University, Warren Alpert School of Medicine	Dr. Lloyd Mayer	Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Kirk Wilson	University of Minnesota	Dr. Darrell Pardi	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dr. Lana Hattar	Baylor College of Medicine	Dr. Marla Dubinsky	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Lola Kwan	University of Rochester	Dr. Uma Mahadevan-Velayos	University of California San Francisco
Dr. Manreet Kaur	Washington University School of medicine	Dr. Darrell Pardi	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dr. Mark Gerich	University of Colorado Denver	Dr. Darrell Pardi	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dr. Nandini Nagaraj	University of Texas Medical Branch	Dr. Bret Lashner	Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Dr. Nissrin Ezmerli	Georgetown University Hospital	Dr. Lloyd Mayer	Mount Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Sharlene L. D'Souza	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Dr. Kim Isaacs	University of North Carolina
Dr. Stephen Miller	University of Illinois at Chicago	Dr. David Rubin	University of Chicago
Dr. Steven Bernick	Naval Medical Center, San Diego	Dr. Darrell Pardi	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

View more information on Visiting IBD Fellow program.
The 2009-10 program funded by an educational grant from Centocor, Inc.

updated 10/21/09