Guest Speaker: “Targeting Lymphocyte Traffic in IBD: Past, Present and Future”

DOM Research Seminar Series

SPEAKER: Jesús Rivera-Nieves, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UC San Diego School of Medicine, and member, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, UC San Diego Medical Center
TOPIC: “Targeting Lymphocyte Traffic in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Past, Present and Future”

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An NIH-funded physician-scientist, Dr. Rivera-Nieves' research laboratory focuses on treatment strategies for IBD—which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, which are characterized by chronic inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract—using unique mouse models that develop Crohn's-like terminal ileitis.

He earned his medical degrees from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, and his residency at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, as well as a research fellowship at the Pulmonary Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md., and a training fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Virginia, Charlottsville. 

PLEASE NOTE: The location for this lecture on the main campus has moved to UAHS Room 5403. South Campus viewers should go to Conference Room 3030 (the same as for Grand Rounds).

The University of Arizona Department of Medicine lecture series, begun in September 2016, occurs on the second Thursday of the month during the academic year, pairing a junior and senior investigator from our faculty who are with different divisions to ensure a variety of topics are covered.

A light lunch is served at each lecture, similar to grand rounds.

This lecture series occurs on the second Thursday of the month. Each lecture is webcast live via the UA Health Sciences BioCommunications website and archived for viewing later at: http://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/home/ (click on the date to watch).

For the full list of speakers through June 2017, click here.