Arthur Kornbluth MD

Asher Kornbluth, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. He received his medical degree from Downstate Medical Center in New York and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine as both resident and Chief Resident at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He was a gastroenterology fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center. A Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Internal Medicine, for Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Dr Kornbluth also holds membership in the American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for which he was selected as both an honored educator and again as an honored clinician.

He has trained medical students, residents, and gastroenterology fellows for over 25 years in clinical gastroenterology. As a medical educator, Dr Kornbluth has taught and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally and is the Founder and annual Course Director of the Mount Sinai IBD Consultants Course for the last 13 years. He has received numerous awards, including the Teacher of the Year for 6 consecutive years at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In 2009, he was awarded the Downstate Medical Center Alumni William Dock Lifetime Master Teaching Award.

Dr Kornbluth has authored more than 100 articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He is the principal author of all three editions of the Ulcerative Colitis Practice Guidelines in Adults, published by the American College of Gastroenterology. He has also twice been the principal author of the chapter on Crohn’s disease in Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Textbook of Gastroenterology. He has served as an associate editor for the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He has also published in and is a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Gastroenterology. Currently, Dr Kornbluth is an investigator on several clinical trials examining new therapeutic agents in inflammatory bowel disease, and most recently has b