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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...

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...

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...

A Cure for Crohn’s: How Close Is It?

by | October 20, 2020 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Dr. David Rubin discusses advancements in Crohn's disease treatment. "And while there isn’t a cure for Crohn’s yet, we’ve come a long way in how we assess and treat it. Treatment used to involve trying a new medicine or therapy and waiting to see if it made you feel...
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Dr. Noa Krugliak Cleveland Introduces Us to the Usage of Intestinal Ultrasound in IBD Care

by | June 7, 2023 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) is a disease monitoring modality for IBD that is new to the United States. Dr. Noa Krugliak Cleveland is one of just a handful of experts in the country on IUS. Click here to listen to the full conversation where she provides an overview of...
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Dr. Rubin summarizes IBD treatment options on Medscape ReCAP

by | July 29, 2020 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Dr. Rubin discusses the three classes of biologic therapies approved for IBD. These therapies, albeit revolutionary for patient care are limited by clearance issues, need for dose escalation, and loss of response. The arrival of small molecule therapies, such as...
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VIDEO: Social media has been a ‘life saver’ during COVID-19 pandemic

by | April 19, 2021 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Watch this video exclusive, to hear David T. Rubin, MD highlight how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the use of social media.
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Dr. David T. Rubin Shares Expert Advice on How to Get Your Work Published

by | January 28, 2022 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Originally presented at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress with colleagues Fabio Cominelli, MD, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University, and Siddharth Singh, MD, of the University of California San Diego, Rubin highlighted the importance of choosing the most appropriate...
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Dr. David T. Rubin Discusses the Efficacy and Safety of JAK Inhibitors

by | June 7, 2023 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Click here to read Conference Coverage on Dr. Rubin's talk at AIBD Virtual Regionals 2023, "JAK Inhibitors: Efficacy and Safety." He details the pivotal clinical trials that help us understand JAK-inhibitors, as well as real-world evidence of their success in patients.
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Dr. David Rubin receives the Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation’s 2020 Sherman Prize

by | 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...
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Dr. David T. Rubin on Transabdominal Ultrasound for IBD: Lessons from STARDUST Substudy on Ustekinumab

by | January 19, 2024 | In the Press | 0 Comments

Intestinal ultrasound has become a useful tool in assessing disease progression and pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It’s an approach to visualizing the intestines using a transabdominal ultrasound probe to provide real-time information. But could...
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Dr. Rubin Disscusses Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Why Your Gut is a Window to Your Overall Health

by | July 30, 2018 | In the Press, Nutrition | 0 Comments

"Your intestines are the center of the universe." Listen to Dr. Rubin's appearance on WGN Nightside radio discussing the gut microbiome, IBD and other human diseases. You can find the full recording here.
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Approach to Management and Interpretation of Testing Results in Patients with IBD, with Particular Attention to Restarting Therapy

by | April 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Rubin's Reflections | 0 Comments

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...
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