Welcome to the University of Michigan (U-M) Crohn's & Colitis Program Web site specifically targeted towards patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, which are also known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We hope this site will give you a better understanding of these two chronic illnesses and provide information that will help you adjust to living with IBD. This site also contains new research opportunities and information focusing on students at the college level. The site will also provide an opportunity to communicate with others.

The new Crohn's & Colitis Program Patient Information Guide is now available. Click on link. This large pdf requires Adobe Reader.

College Clinic

There is an IBD clinic for college students on the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month. The clinic is held in the morning. When you schedule your appointment, you will be asked for the following information:

• Your full name, address, and phone number
• Your parents’ names & phone numbers
• Health insurance information
• Primary care physician: name, address, and phone number
• Hometown GI physician (if applicable): name, address, and phone number.

Medication Assistance Programs Click on link.

The Crohn's & Colitis Student Initiative, a support group for college students with Crohn's and colitis, is now on Facebook.

IBD News:
Read the newsletter published by the U-M Crohn's & Colitis Program.
Summer 2010
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WEBCASTS of the IBD Visiting Professor Lecture Series:

October 18, 2011: Thomas Ullman, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, presents Preventing Neoplastic Progression in IBD.

September 13, 2011: Simon Travis, MD, FRCP, Oxford University presents Ulcerative colitis: acute severe colitis and endoscopic severity in 2011.

May 24, 2011: Sunanda Kane, MD, MSPH, Mayo Clinic presents The Importance of Being Earnest: Adherence Issues in IBD.

March 15, 2011: Claudio Fiocchi, MD, Cleveland Clinic presents Looking at the IBD Forest: Complexity and Individuality.

March 1, 2011: Miguel Regueiro, MD, University of Pittsburgh presents Prevention and management of postoperative Crohn's disease: Where we were, where we are, and where we are going?

Oct 5, 2010: Gert van Assche, MD, PhD, Katholieke Univ, Leuven, The Netherlands presents What matters most in IBD? - symptoms, CRP, mucosal healing...

May 18, 2010: Marla Dubinsky, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles presents The role of genetic and immune markers in predicting disease course and therapeutic outcomes.

Mar 9, 2010: Steven Itzkowitz, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY presents Colon cancer in IBD: What's all the fuss about?

Feb 9, 2010: Robin McLeod, MD, University of Toronto presents
Preventing recurrence of Crohn's disease: a surgical perspective.

Oct 26, 2009: David Binion, MD, University of Pittsburgh presents
Is IBD a vascular disease?

April 28, 2009: Maria Abreu, MD, University of Miami presents
Toll-like receptor signaling in the intestine: friend or foe?

March 10, 2009: Ann Lowry, MD, University of Minnesota presents
Surgical dilemmas in inflammatory bowel disease.

Feb. 10, 2009: Bruce Sands, MD, MSPH, Massachusetts General Hospital presents Inflammatory bowel disease: treatments, strategies, and a way forward.

March 11, 2008: Charles Bernstein, MD, University of Manitoba presents The burden and pathogenesis of IBD.

Ellen Zimmermann, MD presents Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Watch the Visiting Professor Lecture Series on YouTube

CCFA National Meetings:

2008

Peter D.R. Higgins, MD, PhD, MSc presents Practical approaches to the differential diagnosis of IBD.

Oral presentations of original research:

Dahlia Awais, MD presents Renovating the domain structure of the inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire.

Akbar Waljee, MD presents Assessing the discount rate in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

2007

Peter D.R. Higgins, MD, PhD, MSc presents Surrogate endpoints and altering the natural history of IBD.