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

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

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

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

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...

HealthCentral features Dr. Rubin on COVID-19 and IBD

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Rubin has been active in informing IBD patients what we know, don't know, and what experts suggest. This HealthCentral article covers "What People With IBD Need to Know about COVID-19". Dr. Rubin says the general recommendation...

Special Edition VGR: COVID-19 Vaccine Update

Click here to watch Dr. David Rubin and his colleagues explain the data behind the various vaccines, clinical recommendations, allergy and safety recommendation, and describe COVID-19 vaccine special issues in underrepresented minorities.

How IBD Can Affect Patients’ Career and School Choices

IBD, perhaps more than other chronic illnesses, can have a definite impact on a patient’s career choices and school performance. Therefore, I have definitely seen patients make decisions that are affected by their IBD. However, more often, I’ve seen patients overcome...

Dr. David T. Rubin Guest-Hosts IBD Drive Time

Take a listen to Dr. Rubin discuss the impact of inflammatory bowel disease on sexual function with University of Chicago's GI psychologist, Dr. Alyse Bedell, and pelvic floor physical therapist, Sarah Macaraeg.

UPDATE ON IBD AND COVID FOR PATIENTS

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....

UChicago Medicine Patient First in the World to Receive Ulcerative Colitis Drug Since FDA Approval

A University of Chicago Medicine patient became the first person with ulcerative colitis in the world to receive the drug guselkumab (Tremfya) since its Sept. 11 approval by the FDA for treating moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. Tremfya has been used for many...

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

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...

How to identify, manage patients with high-risk ulcerative colitis

Dr. Rubin discusses his presentation at ACG 2019 in San Antonio on identifying and managing patients with high-risk ulcerative colitis with Healio Gastroenterology. “The importance of knowing who is high risk has to do with your choices of treatment and your...

Rectal Compliance Lower Than Normal in Ulcerative Colitis, but Recovery Is Possible

"The findings did not surprise us, but supported our hypothesis that patients with UC have reduced compliance of their rectum, even when they are in remission," Dr. Rubin told Reuters Health by email. "The exciting new finding is that those who normalized their...

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

'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...