Payal Kakadiya

Payal Kakadiya received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She went on to complete a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY-2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency at VCU Health. Payal is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist who started off her career practicing at VCU Health as one of the clinical pharmacy specialists on Internal Medicine services as well as the inpatient Digestive Health service and outpatient GI and Medicine Infusion Clinic. She has now transitioned into her role as the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner in the GI/IBD Clinics at UNC Health.

Parambir S. Dulai, MD, is a board-certified gastroenterologist with clinical and research expertise in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Dulai is a proud recipient of the 2022 Sherman Emerging Leader Prize by The Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation that recognizes outstanding achievements in IBD. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University where he also serves as Director of Precision Medicine for the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr. Dulai completed his medical school training at Dayanand Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, and subsequently completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA. He then went on to complete an NIH sponsored T32 research fellowship and IBD clinical fellowship at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. He spent an additional year of advanced training in clinical trials with Robarts Clinical Trials and in 2019 he was the recipient of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) research scholar award focused on personalized medicine. He has a successful NIH funded research program focused on real world evidence generation, clinical trials, and integrating evolving translational technology into mechanism of action studies.

Payal Kakadiya received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She went on to complete a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY-2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency at VCU Health. Payal is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist who started off her career practicing at VCU Health as one of the clinical pharmacy specialists on Internal Medicine services as well as the inpatient Digestive Health service and outpatient GI and Medicine Infusion Clinic. She has now transitioned into her role as the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner in the GI/IBD Clinics at UNC Health.

Edward V. Loftus, Jr. is a gastroenterologist who specializes in the care of patients with complex Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. He is the Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Professor of Gastroenterology Specifically in IBD at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He developed a population-based cohort of inflammatory bowel disease patients which has resulted in over 50 peer-reviewed publications on the epidemiology and natural history of IBD. Professor Loftus has published over 500 original articles, book chapters, or editorials and more than 750 abstracts. He was awarded AGA’s Distinguished Clinician Award and the IMIBD section’s Research Mentor Award in 2019. He has also been awarded the Mayo Department of Medicine Laureate Award twice and the Outstanding Mentorship Award in Research. Professor Loftus has been the principal investigator on several funded studies focusing on the epidemiology and natural history of inflammatory bowel disease and has served as the local PI on multiple clinical trials of investigational agents for IBD. He serves on the steering committees of several clinical development programs in IBD. In the past he has served as Associate Editor for American Journal of Gastroenterology and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and currently serves as Associate Editor for Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Payal Kakadiya received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She went on to complete a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY-2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency at VCU Health. Payal is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist who started off her career practicing at VCU Health as one of the clinical pharmacy specialists on Internal Medicine services as well as the inpatient Digestive Health service and outpatient GI and Medicine Infusion Clinic. She has now transitioned into her role as the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner in the GI/IBD Clinics at UNC Health.