Alan Buchman, MD, MSPH, FACP, FACG, FACN, AGAF is the Director of the Center for Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he will be the Medical Director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation Transplant Program. Dr Buchman is a former Professor of Medicine and Surgery in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago where he established their Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Intestinal Rehabilitation Centers. He also serves as a Medical Director for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. Dr. Buchman took his undergraduate training at Northwestern and obtained his medical degree at the Chicago Medical School. After a residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, he completed a fellowship in Clinical Nutrition at UCLA and also received his Master's of Science Degree in Public Health. Following this, Dr. Buchman completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Emory University and then served on the faculties of the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Houston Medical School prior to moving to Northwestern.

Dr. Buchman has served on 21 peer-reviewed journal editorial boards in such capacities as associate editor and section editor, and has authored nearly 250 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, book chapters and four books. Dr. Buchman has been the recipient of numerous national awards from several different societies including the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA), American Society for Nutrition, American College of Nutrition, American Society for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and the Southern Medical Society. He is the former president of the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR) and has served on numerous national committees, including the FDA's Gastrointestinal Drugs Review Committee, where he has served as acting chair, the AGA's Education and Manpower and Training Committees, the Council of the Central Society for Clinical Research, and the National Commission on Digestive Diseases. He is a past the chair of the AGA's Nutrition and Obesity Section.

Dr. Buchman's research has focused on complications and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease as well as the complications of intestinal failure and long-term parenteral nutrition, and has published seminal manuscripts in these areas. Dr. Buchman is considered a world authority in nutrition, intestinal failure as well as inflammatory bowel disease and has had numerous television, radio, and print media appearances.