IBD in Clinical Practice: Long-term Disease Management and Surgery

Miguel Regueiro earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, his medical degree at Hahnemann University and completed his internal medicine internship and residency, and clinical and research fellowship training in gastroenterology at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Hospital.

Dr. Regueiro is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Head of the Clinical Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, and Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is also the Associate Chief for Education and former Director of the Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition Fellowship Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Regueiro’s main clinical and research interest is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with a focus on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. Regueiro has published extensively on the prevention and management of postoperative Crohn’s disease and genotype-phenotype correlations in IBD. He is the principal investigator on several multi-center, international research trials and conducts clinical research that defines the natural course and phenotypes of inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Regueiro has developed a multidisciplinary IBD Center that operates as a state-of-the-art clinic for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Dr. Regueiro has received several honors and holds membership in professional and scientific societies, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the Joan Komblum Memorial Prize for Excellence in Internal Medicine, the Clinical Investigator Training Award from Harvard/MIT Health Sciences, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America Physician of the Year, the National Research Excellence in GI disease award, numerous fellowship teaching awards, and American Gastroenterology Association and American College of Gastroenterology Fellowships. He is also a member and fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American College of Physicians. He is a member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) and Co-Chair of CCFA’s professional education committee. In addition, Dr. Regueiro has been an invited lecturer and keynote speaker for national and international seminars and has published many articles, reviews and abstracts in peer-reviewed gastroenterology journals.