Medicine Grand Rounds

"An Overview of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis"
Sasha Taleban, MD

Sasha Taleban, MD, completed his medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle. He went on to the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York for residency before gastroenterology fellowship at Brown in Rhode Island. Dr. Taleban completed an additional advanced fellowship in Crohn’s and colitis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has served on faculty at the University of Arizona since 2013 where he has led the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program (IBD) since 2014. During his tenure, he has developed a robust IBD clinical trials program. His research has centered around aging in IBD and gastroenterology. In 2014, he started a local monthly, live, multidisciplinary IBD Case Conference which evolved into a funded, national conference called IBD West that includes nine institutions. Additionally, during his tenure, he has helped develop the largest referral base of Crohn’s and colitis patients in Arizona. 

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
All faculty, CME Planning Committee members and CME office reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with commercial interests that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.
Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
• Understand more clearly advances in therapy
• Become truly professional physicians