Gastroenterologist Jean-Frederic Colombel, MD, has been named director of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
The center is slated to open in 2014.
Dr. Colombel also serves as a professor of medicine and gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is renowned for his role in identifying NOD2 as a susceptibility gene for Crohn's disease and the identification of a new subtype of E. coli associated with Crohn's.
Dr. Colombel has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed articles, books and chapters on inflammatory bowel disease. Recently he also was a professor of hepatogastroenterology at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille in France and the president of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organization.
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