Theodore Bayless MD

Theodore M. Bayless, Professor of Medicine and Director Emeritus of the Meyerhoff Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Johns Hopkins is the first Sherlock Hibbs Professor in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. A clinician, researcher and an educator, Dr. Bayless has been a member of faculty at Johns Hopkins since 1964 and has provided patient care for over 4000 patients with IBD.

Dr. Bayless received his undergraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania and at Bucknell University; his M.D. degree at Chicago Medical School; Internal Medicine training at the Cornell Division of Bellevue Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; and Gastroenterology research training, with a focus on celiac disease, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

He was awarded the Franklin Institute Medal for his work showing that lactase activity was under genetic control and tested lactose hydrolyzed milk. Dr. Bayless co-authored 145 peer-reviewed research papers and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1975. In 1987, he received the first Distinguished Educator Award from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). In 2004, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association and he was again awarded by the AGA with a Distinguished Clinician Award.