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Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF is the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and a Professor of Medicine in the Gastrointestinal Division of the Department of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Lichtenstein earned his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York, New York. He then completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, North Carolina. He also served a fellowship in Gastroenterology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania of the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine. His current research interests encompass investigational therapies for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Dr. Lichtenstein has received numerous research grants focusing on these areas and has served as the national/ international principal investigator evaluating novel agents for therapeutic trials in the treatment of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease. A Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology, Dr. Lichtenstein has been listed in "Best Doctors in America" (inflammatory bowel disease), and has served as Medical Secretary for the American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Section. He holds membership and committee positions in many professional societies at a national level, including the American Gastroenterological Association where he has served as the vice-chair of the clinical practice committee and practice economics committee and where he has served as chair of the clinical practice committee, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy where he has served on the committee on training, the American College of Gastroenterology where he has served on the Education Committee, Programs Committee and the Nominations Committee. He recently served as a member of the research committee. He has been the chair of the abstract review committee for Inflammatory Bowel Disease for the American College of Gastroenterology. He is also a member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America where he served at the national level as the chair of the membership committee of the Clinical Research Alliance, he has served on the national grants review committee and the national physician education committee. He additionally is a longstanding member of the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association. Dr. Lichtenstein has received numerous awards including the award for the top specialist in the University of Pennsylvania Health system- the Louis A. Duhring Award. He is the recipient of the Christina and Marie Lindback award- the top teaching award in the entire University of Pennsylvania. He has received the medical school teaching award the "Penn Pearls Award". He has received the Department of Medicine Housestaff teaching award- the "Donald B. Martin Teaching Award". He has received the Gastroenterology Division teaching award - the Sidney Cohen Teaching Award. He is listed in "The Best Doctors in America"- Inflammatory Bowel Disease and in Philadelphia Magazine-Listed among top Gastroenterologists for elderly in Philadelphia and Listed among top Gastroenterologists in Philadelphia (Special Focus: Inflammatory Bowel Disease). He is the recipient of the CCFA- Physician of the Year Award: Philadelphia and Delaware Valley Chapters. In addition to having served on the Editorial Board of the journals Gastroenterology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, World Journal of Gastroenterology, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Dr. Lichtenstein serves as a former writer of Selected Summaries in the journal Gastroenterology and served as the section editor of Selected Summaries and the section editor of Print and Media Review in Gastroenterology for a 5 year term. He also has and currently serves as a reviewer for such journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, Gastroenterology, The Lancet, the Annals of Internal Medicine, Gut, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the World Journal of Gastroenterology and the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. He is the executive editor of a newly PubMed indexed journal Gastroenterology and Hepatology and serves as Associate editor of Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, Clinical Investigation, and is currently Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. An invited lecturer at the local, national, and international levels, Dr. Lichtenstein is the author or coauthor of more than 250 peer-reviewed primary articles, chapters letters and editorials, and he has presented over 250 abstracts and edited 18 books. He has lectured at a national and an international level at over 300 invited conferences, symposiums and institutional grand rounds.