The Mount Sinai Hospital recently opened the Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at 17 East 102nd Street, a facility created to provide comprehensive care in one location for pediatric and adult patients. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a general classification of conditions that cause inflammation of the intestines. An estimated 1.4 million people in the United States have Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
The new Center will offer patients personalized treatments, new disease management strategies, and more opportunities to participate in clinical trials. A team of gastroenterologists, surgeons, pathologists, nurses, social workers, researchers, nutritionists, and other allied health professionals will coordinate care.
“Our digestive disease specialists have been at the forefront of research and treatment of these chronic conditions, and we are proud to have them continue their innovative work in this unique Center,” says Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System. “We are grateful to our donors who have made this possible.”
Mount Sinai’s leadership in this specialty was established in the 1930s, when Burrill B. Crohn, MD, a Mount Sinai physician, and his colleagues Leon Ginzburg, MD, and Gordon Oppenheimer, MD, were the first to describe Crohn’s disease.
“Mount Sinai’s IBD team has always worked together to improve our understanding of these diseases,” says Bruce Sands, MD, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology. “This new Center will facilitate collaboration and help us to identify better treatment plans for patients and further our research in this area.”
Jean-Frédéric Colombel, MD, and Marla C. Dubinsky, MD, have been named co-directors of the Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center. Dr. Colombel, a preeminent IBD researcher, is Professor of Medicine and Director of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Mount Sinai. Dr. Dubinsky is Professor of Pediatrics, and Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.