IBD Program

Our newly created Joint Penn-CHOP Center for Digestive, Liver and Pancreatic Medicine has a number of programs, especially a focus in IBD. Our goal is to bring our CHOP and Penn gastroenterologists, surgeons, nutritionists and nurses together to deliver outstanding care on behalf of patients with IBD who are making the transition from adolescence to young adulthood (age 18), who remain in the Delaware Valley region and who come to this region for various reasons related to college, professional careers and family reasons.

Co-Directors | Associated Faculty

Associated Penn Faculty

Faten Aberra, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology

Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH
Instructor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology

Julius Deren, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology

James Lewis, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Senior Scholar, CCEB

Gary Lichtenstein, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology

Mark Osterman, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Farzana Rashid, MD
Instructor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Gary Wu, MD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Molecular Studies
in Digestive and Liver Diseases
Division of Gastroenterology

Associated CHOP Faculty

Petar Mamula, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director, Kohl’s Gastroenterology
& Nutrition Diagnostic Center

Robert Baldassano, MD
Colman Professor of Pediatrics

Edwin de Zoeten, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Andrew Grossman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Judith Kelsen, MD
Senior IBD Research Fellow

Meena Thayu, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Ritu Verma, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Section Chief, Clinical Gastroenterology