David Gardinier

David Gardinier is a registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic Center for Human Nutrition. He specializes in inflammatory bowel disease and is a part of the Cleveland Clinic IBD medical home. David's research interests include peri-operative nutrition in elective Crohn's disease and use of computed tomography as a monitoring tool for nutrition interventions.

Marina Ivanov, Pharm.D., BCACP, BCPS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at Mayo Clinic–Arizona. She is a clinical leader within a multidisciplinary IBD care team, practicing under a Collaborative Practice Agreement and specializing in the management of complex and severe IBD, with a focus on treat‑to‑target strategies and expanding patient access to advanced therapies. Dr. Ivanov plays a key role in graduate medical education as a residency program developer and preceptor and was recognized with the 2023 Joe L. Rogers Allied Health Teacher of the Year Award. Locally and nationally, she is actively engaged in advancing the role of pharmacists in IBD care, promoting their integration within IBD teams to enhance medication safety, and patient outcomes.

Laurie Powers Yopp is a Registered Nurse in the role of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse Coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she has held that role since 2007. She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BSN and Highest Honors in 2004. She also hold B.A. degrees in psychology and communications from UNC Chapel Hill. For fun she enjoys early morning exercise, tennis, baking, and family time.

Jordan E. Axelrad, MD, MPH, FACG, is Co- Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at NYU Langone Health, and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Axelrad also directs the Clostridioides difficile and immunotherapy- related bowel diseases programs at NYU Langone Health. He received his medical and public health degrees from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and fellowship training in gastroenterology at Columbia University Medical Center, serving as chief fellow. Dr. Axelrad is involved in inflammatory bowel disease guideline development and educational programs, and serves on the editorial board of multiple journals. His current research, funded by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, the Colton Center for Autoimmunity, and the National Institutes of Health, focuses on inflammatory bowel disease epidemiology, malignant and infectious complications of inflammatory bowel disease, triggers of inflammatory bowel disease onset and flare, and models for predicting responsiveness to inflammatory bowel disease therapies. Dr. Axelrad has also received several awards for his work including the Auxiliary of the American College of Gastroenterology Award, the Dr. Philip Moskowitz Prize in Autoimmunity, and the Sherman Emerging Leader Prize for Excellence in Crohn’s and Colitis.

Eric Benchimol is the co-Chair of the Pediatric Track of Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (AIBD). He holds the Northbridge Chair of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre. He is a Professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology at University of Toronto. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist and Associate Program Director of the GI Fellowship program at SickKids Hospital in Toronto. Dr. Benchimol is also an epidemiologist, and chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), which conducts epidemiology, pharmaco-epidemiology, outcomes, and health services research using the health administrative data from multiple provinces. He also has an interest in improving the research methodology and transparency of research using routinely collected health data. In that capacity, he co-Chairs the RECORD (REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected data) Steering Committee which has produced multiple reporting guidelines. Dr. Benchimol is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology.

Dr. de Zoeten is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Univeristy of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine and the Director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Children's Hospital Colorado. He is a physician scientist, who has been funded by the NIH, DoD, NASPGHAN and Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. He has studies both basic and clinical immunologic mechanisms, focusing on the evaluation of regulatory processes and specifically how the immune system regulates itself in the intestine. All with the goal of developing safe and effective therapies for Pediatri IBD patients.

David Gardinier is a registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic Center for Human Nutrition. He specializes in inflammatory bowel disease and is a part of the Cleveland Clinic IBD medical home. David's research interests include peri-operative nutrition in elective Crohn's disease and use of computed tomography as a monitoring tool for nutrition interventions.

Trusha Patel, MD, is an attending pediatric gastroenterologist in the Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease (VEO-IBD) Program and the Center for Pediatric IBD at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Patel completed her undergraduate education at The Pennsylvania State University and her medical education at Duke University School of Medicine. She completed her general pediatrics residency and pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her clinical practice and academic work focus on VEO-IBD and pediatric IBD. She is a physician leader in the quality improvement group in the IBD Center at CHOP and is an active member of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) and ImproveCareNow (ICN). She has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed research publications and book chapters about IBD and VEO-IBD. Dr. Patel is dedicated to providing personalized, comprehensive and compassionate care for children and young adults living with VEO-IBD and IBD.