Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Forman for her induction in the DOM Clinical Excellence Society!

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Dr. Sean Colgan has been selected to receive the prestigious CU Anschutz Research Mentor Award. Dr. Colgan is the Joel Levine-Fred Kern, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Head of Research for Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Colorado. He was nominated by faculty and research mentees in our division and was selected from many other nominees across campus.  Importantly, Dr. Colgan has directly mentored 50 MD, PhD or MD/PhD students and fellows across the world, 39 of whom remain actively engaged in academia. Of these fellows, 33 have external funding and 14 currently hold RO-1-equivalent grants. Additionally, Dr. Colgan is the primary mentor for six fellows/junior faculty members actively funded with Career Development Awards for the NIH, VA, or Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

Katherine Dickerman, NP, was recognized with a UCHealth Annual Medical Staff Award when she was awarded the Medical Staff Leadership Award. Congratulations, Katie!

Steven Edmundowicz, M.D. has been awarded the prestigious Anschutz Acceleration Initiative (AAI) Grant  for his project, “Transforming Gastrointestinal Cancer Care from Inpatient Surgery to Outpatient Endoscopy by Enabling Third Space Endoscopy”. This was a selective process that awarded investigators at the cutting edge of innovation.

The University of Colorado Board of Regents approved six new Distinguished Professors, the highest honor CU bestows on its own faculty members. With these additions, only 144 professors have been so honored since 1977 when the title was established. Distinguished Professors have demonstrated distinguished performance in scholarly or creative work, excellence in promotion of learning and student attainment of knowledge and skills, and outstanding leadership and service to the profession and to the university. Among the six new Distinguished Professors is one professor from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology:

Sean Colgan, PhD, professor of medicine and Joel Levine-Fred Kern Jr. Chair in IBD Research. Dr. Colgan’s lab studies mucosal inflammation with a focus on intestinal inflammation and his work has improved understanding of drug resistance in cancer, how the microbiome influences host immunity, the impact of microbial metabolic products on mucosal injury and wound repair, and how inflammation may affect gut motility and cellular health in colonic disorders such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Congratulations, Dr. Colgan!