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Message to Dr. Rubin’s Patients Related to COVID-19 Boosters

Aug 13, 2021

Dear Friends and Patients, I hope this message finds you well. Please excuse the group nature of this message, but I did want to reach out with the latest update about COVID-19, and vaccinations. If you want to skip right to the booster info, scroll down to #5 below....

Tweetorial to Provide Updates on COVID-19 for Patients with IBD

Jul 30, 2021

View Twitter Thread To watch me deliver the full lecture and view the presentation, click here. I recently gave a lecture about COVID-19 and vaccination with specific information for patients with IBD. This lecture was recorded on July 21st, before the CDC issued...

Tweetorial to Clarify the NYT Article From 15 April and Further Explain/Clarify the UK CLARITY IBD Study

Apr 18, 2021

Tweetorial to Clarify the NYT Article From 15 April and Further Explain/Clarify the UK CLARITY IBD Study David T. Rubin View Twitter Thread I've previously commented about the CLARITY IBD Study (Kennedy, et al). paper in this forum, but it bears repeating and further...

SARS Vaccine and IBD Tweetorial Summary from December 1

Dec 5, 2020

SARS Vaccine and IBD Tweetorial Summary from December 1 David T. Rubin View Twitter Thread Here are my thoughts and a few updates about SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, and also about important implications for our IBD patients. Development of multiple SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the...

Approach to Management and Interpretation of Testing Results in Patients with IBD, with Particular Attention to Restarting Therapy

Apr 21, 2020

By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine As testing for SARS-CoV-2 is expanded and serologic antibody testing becomes available, we are faced with a number of different clinical scenarios. I have outlined the different situations...

Three waves of Illness from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Apr 1, 2020

By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine I've been thinking about what comes next, and how can we get ahead of this, and propose the following for consideration. I believe that there will be three waves of illness from the...

Pregnancy in the Setting of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

by dtrubin | March 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections | 0 Comments

By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine Dear Colleagues, A lot of concern has recently come up regarding pregnancy in the setting of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here are some key points I found on this issue: Pregnancy is a state of...

Endoscopic Phenotype: A Potential Predictor of Cuffitis Risk

by dtrubin | January 27, 2020 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Advanced IBD Fellow Shintaro Akiyama, MD, PhD presented a Quick Shot of his abstract on pouchitis involving the rectal cuff at Crohn's and Colitis Congress. MedPage Today reported the results in the article here and Healio reported the results here. Very proud of Dr....

IBD As We Age: Thoughts on Treatment and Management For Age 40 and Beyond

by dtrubin | December 4, 2019 | QoL, Rubin's Reflections | 0 Comments

There is a growing number of people diagnosed with IBD who are defined as “elderly”. This varies in definition but can be considered those who have IBD older than 50 or older than 60 or 65. I prefer the World Health Organization definition of >65. The two different...

Improvements in Testing for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 and How They Will Transform What we are Doing

by dtrubin | April 1, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections | 0 Comments

By David T. Rubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine Here are some improvements in testing for SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19 and how I think they will transform what we are doing: 1. Faster Viral Tests for SARS-CoV-2. Several companies have adapted...

IBD Drive Time Podcast: Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials

by David Rubin | October 19, 2023 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Take a listen to the third episode of a four-part series wherein Professor Rubin guest-hosts the Gastroenterology Learning Network's IBD Drive Time and discusses the ethics of clinical trials in IBD, as well as challenges to recruitment, alongside Professor Severine...

UPDATE ON IBD AND COVID FOR PATIENTS

by David Rubin | September 9, 2020 | In the Press, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Listen to Dr. David Rubin, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine and Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, as he provides an update on SARS-CoV2, COVID-19, and what we know and how we can get through this together....

Dr. David T. Rubin on “How I Treat Ulcerative Colitis”

by David Rubin | April 23, 2024 | In the Press, Presentations | 0 Comments

Dr. Rubin provides an in-depth look at the treatment of ulcerative colitis, from recent advances in therapeutic agents to setting patient expectations, positioning treatments, and monitoring for disease remission or progression. Click here for the full talk from the...

David T. Rubin Accepts the 2020 Sherman Prize

by David Rubin | February 1, 2022 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Watch David T. Rubin accept the 2020 Sherman Prize, which is awarded to IBD clinicians, surgeons, researchers and/or academics with extraordinary track records of achievement, making exceptional and pioneering contributions that transform IBD care.

G&E News Expert Picks by Dr. Rubin: Best of ECCO 2019

by dtrubin | September 18, 2019 | In the Press | 0 Comments

'In this installment of “Expert Picks,” David Rubin, MD, the Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine; the chief of the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; and a co-director of the Digestive Diseases Center at the University of Chicago Medicine and...

Dr. David Rubin receives the Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation’s 2020 Sherman Prize

by David Rubin | October 29, 2020 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Dr. Rubin was recently announced as one of three recipients of the 2020 Sherman Prize. Sherman Prize recipients "are outstanding individuals who consider the whole patient experience — not just the serious symptoms, but also the psychological and practical components...