Stefan David Holubar MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS

Stefan David Holubar, MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS, is a member of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section and is the Director of Research for the Department of Colon & Rectal Surgery at the Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute. He is also the National Surgical Quality Improvement Surgeon Champion for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His appointment as a Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine is pending.

Dr. Stefan Holubar was born and raised on Long Island. Stefan is a first-generation American, as his mother immigrated to New York from Stockholm, Sweden, and his father's family was of Ukrainian descent; Stefan has working knowledge of Swedish and German. Stefan’s wife is also a first-generation (German) American and is fluent in French. During medical school, Stefan overcame stage 3 colon cancer related to long-standing ulcerative colitis treated with a modified 2-stage IPAA (J-pouch).

Dr. Holubar received his Medical Degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, VT, in 2002. After medical school, he completed his residency at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, where he served as Chief Resident in 2007. He continued his clinical training with a clinical fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, where he also completed a 2-year special fellowship during which he earned a Master of Science degree in Clinical & Translational Science, with a focus on Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Mayo Clinic in 2010. During these three years, he published over 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts and dozens of national scientific presentations. Throughout his academic training, Dr. Holubar has been honored for academic excellence and has received several teaching awards. After Mayo, he joined Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and was eventually appointed Chief of the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery.