Medicine Grand Rounds: "IBD & Precision Medicine" with Dr. Dermot McGovern

The Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson presents:

“Inflammatory Bowel Diseases – Poster child for precision medicine beyond oncology?”
Dermot McGovern MD, PhD, FRCP, FACG, AGAF

Director of Precision Health at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
Director of Translational Medicine, F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute and Immunobiology Research Institute, and
Professor-in-Residence, David E. Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Noon-1 p.m., Lecture Hall, Room 5403
College of Medicine – Tucson
(See flyer below for virtual viewing links.)

— A light lunch will be provided. —

Presenter: Dr. McGovern earned his medical degree from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College, University of London, and did his residency at Gloucester Royal Hospital in Gloucester, England. He completed his gastroenterology fellowship and obtained a doctorate in complex disease genetics at the University of Oxford before moving to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center more than a decade ago. There, he’s director of translational medicine at the F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute as well as the Cedars-Sinai Precision Medicine Initiative. A professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, he holds the Joshua and Lisa Greer Endowed Chair in IBD Genetics at Cedars-Sinai. His clinical interests include extra-intestinal complications of IBD and also the overlap between IBD and other immune-mediated and metabolic diseases.

Dr. McGovern serves on the National Scientific Advisory Committee for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation as well as the steering committees of the National and International IBD Genetics Consortia. He also chairs the CCFA local advisory medical committee. In addition, he serves on the editorial board for the IBD Journal. He has been elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and also the International Organization for the Study of IBD.

Dr. McGovern’s research group is funded by the NIH as well as the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, The Litwin Foundation and the Helmsley Charitable Trust to study the effect of genetics on susceptibility to and natural history of IBD in diverse populations. His group uses big data to analyze multi-omic datasets to identify potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets of IBD that ‘feed’ the drug development Unit he co-directs. This group also has a significant interest in pharmacogenetics of therapies used in IBD and extending these studies to diverse populations including African Americans, Hispanics, and the Ashkenazi Jewish population is a major focus of his group. The group has published about 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Genetics, The Lancet and Gastroenterology.

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■ Flyer for this event:  dom_grand_rounds_flyer_2023-11-08.pdf
■ Health Sciences Connect Calendar listing

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

Medicine Grand Rounds are held in Room 5403, on the fifth floor of the College of Medicine – Tucson. To view Medicine Grand Rounds remotely, see this live weblink: https://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/streaming/. To view it after the fact, click on "Archive" at the top of this same link's webpage and, from the dropdown menu under "Category," select "Department of Medicine" and click "Search" to find the event you're seeking.

Accreditation Statement: The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) 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.

Disclosure Statement: All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members, and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with ineligible companies 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

For questions or accommodations that may be necessary, please contact the Office of the Chair, 520-626-6349 at least three days in advance of event.