Visceral: Listen to Your Gut

Featuring: Benjamin McDonald, MD, PhD, University of Chicago Medicine Perianal Crohn's disease is one of the most complex and challenging forms of inflammatory bowel disease. In this episode, Benjamin McDonald, MD, gastroenterologist and IBD specialist at UChicago Medicine, discusses how perianal Crohn's disease affects patients, the challenges of diagnosis and treatment, and the latest advances i...

Featuring: Tenzin Choden, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation produced this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center . As we age, we naturally lose muscle mass — a condition known as sarcopenia. But for people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), muscle loss can be more severe and may even impact treatment outcomes. In this episode, we sit down with...

Featuring: Tenzin Choden, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center . In this episode, Tenzin Choden, MD, a board-certified gastroenterologist and clinical researcher at UChicago Medicine, shares her 2025 Annual Grant Cycle Award study investigating how IBD uniquely impacts older adults, who represen...

Featuring: Emma Levine, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center . In this episode, Dr. Levine, a current fellow with The University of Chicago Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Fellowship training program, shares her 2025 GI Research Foundation Young Investigator Awards study on the recipr...

Featuring: Candace Cham, PhD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center . Dr. Cham is an immunologist and chief investigator for the Chang Lab at the University of Chicago. She received a 2025 Annual Grant Cycle award from the GI Research Foundation for a study testing whether adding a fiber supplement ca...

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center . David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores the top ten challenges faced by people with Crohn’s disease and ulc...

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center . David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores the top ten challenges faced by people with Crohn’s disease and ulc...

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center . David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores challenges 6-10 of the top ten faced by people with Crohn’s disease...

Featuring: David T. Rubin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from Metro Infusion Center . David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, explores challenges 1–5 of the top ten faced by people with Crohn’s disease...

Featuring: Jeffrey Nathanson, M.D., Comprehensive Gastrointestinal Health The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center . In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Nathanson, partner and gastroenterologist at Comprehensive Gastrointestinal Health in Northbrook, Illinois. We explore bowel frequency—what is “normal” and when i...

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from Metro Infusion Center . In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Noa Krugliak Cleveland, Director of the Intestinal Ultrasound Program, and Dr. Amelia Kellar, Director of Pediatric Intestinal Ultrasound, both at the University of Chicago Medicine Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. We explore how a tried-and-true techn...

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center . In this compelling episode, host Anna Gomberg brings together four courageous individuals to share their personal journeys with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). They answer questions such as: · What was it like to be diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis? · What imp...

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center . With David T. Rubin, MD , Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine; and Ashley Sidebottom, PhD , Research Assistant Professor and Platform Director, Host-Microbe Metabolomics Facility, University of Chicago Struggling with sleep and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? You're not alone...

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie . With Lalitha Sitaraman, MD , Assistant Professor of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medicine Lalitha Sitaraman, MD, one of the newest members of the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, focuses her research on the connection between the nervous system and the lower intestinal tract. Disorde...

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie . Featuring Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, the University of Chicago Medicine Join us for a candid conversation about pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Our guest, Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, specializes in the treatment of children with Crohn’s disease...

The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie . Featuring Lori Rowell Welstead, MS, RD, LDN and Courtney Schuchmann, MS, RD, LDN Registered Dietitians with the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center "People might think that a registered dietitian is going to say, 'cut this out, cut that out,' where in reality, we focus on adding food back into...

Episode 5 of Visceral features Alyse Bedell, PhD, GI psychologist, who discusses the ways in which Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can impact mental health and personal well-being. Dr. Bedell shares research to help patients understand how IBD relates to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges, and how to harness the mind-body connection to help manage pain and symptoms. Wri...

Confusingly, similar acronyms describe two very different conditions of the lower GI tract: IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). IBD is often treated with biologic medical therapies that are infused, injected, or taken orally. IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome, is a diagnosis of exclusion, and treatment includes a different set of medication options and dietary advic...

Advanced Practice Nurses and leaders in the field of ostomy care Janice Colwell, APRN, CWOCN, FAAN, and Marita Kametas, MSN, APN, FNP-BC, CMSRN, COCN offer need-to-know information about post-surgical life with an ostomy for IBD patients. Jan Colwell speaks from over 40 years of experience as a wound, ostomy, and continence specialist, and is the director of the Ostomy Care Clinic at the Universit...

In the latest episode of Visceral: Listen to Your Gut , Russell D. Cohen, MD, and Emily Dobrez, APN, discuss the ways patients can best manage their Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis using the latest available treatments. Listen now to episode 2: The Art and Science of IBD Treatment. More information on treatment options from Dr. Cohen and Sushila Dalal, MD, is also available in this online v...

In this podcast, we interview Dr. Eugene Chang, a national and renowned physician-scientist from the University of Chicago. In his lab , he and his team study the interactive relationship between intestinal microbes and the gut they live in, a relationship that is fundamental to our health. When the right balance is disturbed, the consequences can be catastrophic. Large shifts in the bacteria that...