Ali Keshavarzian 1558302257

Ali Keshavarzian, MD, FRCP, FACP, AGAF, MACG the Josephine M. Dyrenforth Chair of Gastroenterology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology, Director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Gut, Chronobiology and Inflammation at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois has been a practicing gastroenterologist with a specialty in managing patients with inflammatory bowel disease for over 30 years.

He trained in medicine at the Tehran University Medical School in Iran and residency and GI fellowship in England- at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, Hillingdon Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital. After a year of GI research fellowship at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in 1985, he held faculty positions at University of Maryland, Loyola University Medical Center and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He became the Chief, Section of Gastroenterology at Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL in 1992, Director, Division of Digestive Disease and Nutrition at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL in 1995 prior to coming to Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL in 1999 as the Director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition.

As a clinician-scientist Keshavarzian has been studying the impact of environmental factors (stress, alcohol, sleep and circadian disruption) on intestinal barrier function host/microbe interaction that promote intestinal and systemic (gut-derived) inflammation leading to initiation and/or progression of inflammatory disorders including inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, food allergy, metabolic syndrome, alcoholic and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and Parkinson’s disease.