IBDHorizons June 23rd Dialogue

Speakers

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  Ghassan Wahbeh, MD Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Professor of Pediatrics and Gastroenterology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Clinical Gastroenterology Operations.​
  

  Ghassan Wahbeh, MD

  Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Professor of Pediatrics and Gastroenterology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Clinical Gastroenterology Operations.​

  Ghassan Wahbeh, MD, is the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Gastroenterology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Clinical Gastroenterology Operations. Dr. Wahbeh’s clinical focus is in advanced care for children, adolescents, and young adults with IBD, including advanced therapeutics and perioperative IBD management. He leads the Intestinal Ultrasound (IUS) Program at Seattle Children’s.

  Dr. Wahbeh’s research interests include novel therapeutics for pediatric IBD, advanced disease monitoring towards mucosal healing, clinical standard work in managing severe ulcerative colitis and complicated Crohn’s disease including fistulizing and stricturing phenotypes, and navigating IBD surgical options. He is actively involved in translational IBD research at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

  Dr. Wahbeh is actively involved as teaching faculty in medical student education, resident training and fellow physician specialty, and advanced IBD specialty training.

  He is the honored recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award, as well as the Family Choice Award, and the Northwest Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation service award. Dr. Wahbeh enjoys playing soccer, skiing, and paddle-boarding with his wife and kids.

  Dr. Ghassan Wahbeh is a co-founder of IBDHorizons

  @PedsIBD_Wahbeh

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  Joel Rosh, MD Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Director, Associate Professor
  

  Joel Rosh, MD

  Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Director, Associate Professor

  Dr. Joel Rosh, Director, Pediatric Gastroenterology, has been practicing Pediatric Gastroenterology and is board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Joel R. Rosh received an Honors Degree from Brown University and his Medical Degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. His postdoctoral training included an internship and residency at the Children’s Hospital of New York- Columbia Presbyterian Medicfal Center and a Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He remained on faculty at Mount Sinai until 1994 when he moved to the Goryeb Children’s Hospital/Atlantic Health in Morristown, NJ where he founded the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and the Pediatric IBD Center.

  Dr. Rosh is a long-standing member of many professional societies and has served as an advisor to the FDA as well as numerous foundations and advisory bodies. He has served as National Chairman of the CCF Pediatric Education Committee, a National Councilor for NASPGHAN and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Dr. Rosh has been honored as the CCF Physician of the Year, New Jersey Chapter; the New Jersey Pediatric Society Physician Recognition Award; and Castle Connolly’s New York Metro Area Top Doctor (1998-2016). Dr. Rosh frequently serves at the regional and national level as an IBD speaker and educator. He is widely published in the field of pediatric IBD and his current research focus is the safety and efficacy of standard as well as emergy pharmacotherapy.