Washington University IBD Center

05/19/2026

Today is World IBD Day

03/18/2026

ATTENTION: Patients & Caregivers!
The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation - Mid-America Chapter is hosting a MyIBDLearning event on Saturday March 28 at the Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza from 100p-400p!

Register at https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/myibdlearning/stlouis

Sessions will include talks from WashU Medicine IBD Center physicians!

12/09/2025

Cutting edge computational AI work in Perianal Fistulizing Crohn's disease ongoing at Wash U as a collaboration between Wash U IBD (Deepak Parakkal, MD, MS), Mallinkrodt Institute of Radiology (David H. Ballard, MD) and Emory University (Satish E. VIswanath, PhD)

Funding: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Checkout the story in The Record 👇🏻👇🏾👇

With a joint award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Emory University researchers will develop artificial intelligence software tools to improve diagnosis and treatment of a common complication of Crohn’s disease.

11/24/2025

Proud to be part of this tremendously important work with the goal of preventing cancer of the stomach and pancreas.

Imagine fighting a disease that hides itself—an "invisible cloak" making it incredibly hard to find—until it's too late. That's often the reality for patients diagnosed with pancreatic and stomach cancers.

For these awful diseases, diagnosis commonly occurs in the advanced stages, when treatment options may be limited and outcomes are poor. By the time most patients know they have it, the chance for recovery has virtually vanished.

To fight this heartbreaking reality, our community stepped up. The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital recently raised $2 million to launch PREVENT, a new program at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine. This powerful collaboration is dedicated to solving the problem of late-stage diagnosis for these cancers.

This investment brings together a super team of researchers and physicians, pooling multimillion-dollar resources and leading-edge technology. PREVENT is more than research—it has the power to give patients back their options by:

🧠 Attracting the Best: Funding fellowships to bring the brightest minds to our research teams, allowing gastric and pancreatic researchers to collaborate, working side-by-side.

🔬 Finding Cancer Earlier: Developing brand new diagnostic tools to finally pierce the "invisible cloak" and catch pancreatic and stomach cancer at the earliest, most curable stage.

📈 Expanding Resources: Like the Tissue and BioBank, which allows researchers to better understand these cancers and test new precision treatments.

This partnership is fundamental to speeding up life-saving discoveries through research, which in turn advances patient care. “With our world-class team of experts, we are uniquely positioned to identify and propel the most promising ideas, ensuring that they swiftly translate into real-world benefits for patients,” says Matthew Ciorba, MD, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and cancer researcher at WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. “We’re grateful for this support that has the power to catalyze progress and save lives.”

Learn more about the life-changing impact of this $2 million investment: https://heyor.ca/E2hV5k

10/29/2025

Calling All Healthcare Professionals--
We are pleased to announce a 2-day Continuing Medical Education (CME) event scheduled for March 2026. Please save the dates! Additional details, including registration information and agenda, will be shared soon. We look forward to your participation in these enriching educational opportunities!

03/09/2025

Some photos from our well attended inaugural research symposium which hosted our two external keynote speakers Prof Ed Loftus Clinic Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Dr. Louis Cohen Sinai Gastroenterology along with Wash U P*s Prof Gwen Randolph Dr. Ta-Chiang Liu and Dr. Siyan Cao along with a host of trainee talks where PhD candidate Heather Ruiz won the first 🏆 and Dr. Jalpa Devi and Dr. Zeinab Bakhshizarrinabadi shared the second 🏆 .

02/21/2025

FELLOWS registration is FREE

Healthcare Providers! Our 7th Annual WashU Medicine Multidisciplinary IBD CME Conference will take place on Saturday, March 8, 2025 featuring Keynote Speakers, Dr. Edward V. Loftus, Jr., MD, Prof. Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, and Dr. Louis Cohen. Registration is open! Use the QR Code or go to https://cme.wustl.edu/activity/24125 Email [email protected] with any questions!

02/19/2025

ATTENTION: Patients & Caregivers!

The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation - Mid-America Chapter is hosting a MyIBDLearning event on Saturday March 8 at the Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza! See below for details and sign up today! https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/myibdlearning/stlouis

Sessions will include talks from WashU Medicine IBD Center physicians!

02/11/2025

Patients & Caregivers! The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation - Mid-America Chapter is hosting a MyIBDLearning event on Saturday March 8 at the Royal Sonesta Chase Park Plaza! See below for details and sign up today! https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/myibdlearning/stlouis

Sessions will include talks from WashU Medicine IBD Center physicians including GI Psychologist, Dr. Christopher Berghoff, IBD specialists Dr. Parakkal Deepak and Dr. Martin Gregory, St. Louis Children's IBD physician Dr. Elizabeth Utterson, and our IBD dietitian, Kristin Cunningham!

02/05/2025

We are hosting an Inaugural Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Symposium on Friday, March 7, 2025 with keynote speakers, Dr. Louis Cohen from Mt Sinai, and Dr. Edward V. Loftus, Jr. from Mayo Clinic Rochester. Symposium from 12:00p-430p; social hour 430p-530p.

See link for details to register/RSVP and submit abstracts for possible presentation. Abstract submissions are due Friday, February 21, 2025 at 5p CST. $300 and $250 for top two submissions. Abstract submission details in the link.

https://internalmedicine.wustl.edu/events/event/ibd-research-symposium/