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About Our Team

		Uma Mahadevan MD Professor of Medicine Director, Colitis and Crohn's Disease Center University of California, San Francisco Dr. Mahadevan is a global expert in the management of pregnancy in IBD and the principal investigator for PIANO which she launched in 2007. She has multiple publications, review articles and book chapters on the subject as well as others in the field of IBD. She has an interest in education and is a founder of the GUILD Conference, Director of the UCSF IBD Updates course and Director of the UCSF Advanced IBD Fellowship. She is a recipient of the American Gastroenterology Association Research Mentor Award (2022) and the Sherman Prize (2022).
		Millie D. Long MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dr. Long's clinical practice is at the UNC Multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) center. Her research interests include prevention of complications of IBD, women's health and clinical epidemiology. Dr. Long has contributed numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and review articles to the medical literature. She is currently Co-Investigator on the PIANO cohort where she focuses on clinical epidemiology and data analysis. She is also Co-Director of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Clinical Research Alliance, a collaborative of investigators performing clinical outcomes research in IBD. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
		Jessica Lim Ms. Lim (UCSF) is the Senior study coordinator for PIANO, overseeing all study sites and coordinators.
		Nicole Arima Ms. Arima is the lead site study coordinator for PIANO at UCSF.
		Wenli Chen MS, MA Programmer and Web Developer Data Management Center Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wenli Chen has extensive experience with web-development systems for clinical research in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). She has been lead programmer for a number of IBD registries including PIANO (Pregnancy in IBD and Neonatal Outcomes), IBD Partners Patient Powered Research Network and PREVENT-COVID (Partnership to report Effectiveness in Vaccination in populations Excluded from Initial Trials of Coronavirus Disease).

Our Study Sites

Remote Enrollment from any US location:
Contact: Jessica Lim
Email: jessica.lim@ucsf.edu

University of California San Francsico PI: Dr. Uma Mahadevan Contact: Jessica Lim jessica.lim@ucsf.edu		Medical College of Wisconsin PI: Dr. Poonam Beniwal-Patel Contact: Alexandra Bruss abruss@mcw.edu
Massachusetts General Hospital PI: Dr. Ashwin Ananthakrishnan Contact: Rachel Glasser rglasser@mgh.harvard.edu		University of Miami PI: Dr. Siobhan Proksell Contact: Niurka Colina nxc610@miami.edu
Mayo Clinic Rochester PI: Dr. Sunanda Kane Contact: Jessica Boyum Boyum.Jessica@mayo.edu		Minnesota Gastroenterology PI: Dr. Robert McCabe Contact: Amanda Devers Amanda.Devers@mngi.com
Weill Cornell Medicine PI: Dr. Ellen Scherl Contact: Faitha Chabouni fac2005@med.cornell.edu		University of Chicago PI: Dr. Russel Cohen Contact: Kristi Kearney kkearney@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Houston Methodist Hospital PI: Dr. Bincy Abraham Contact: Zinah Rasheed zwrasheed@houstonmethodist.org		University of North Carolina PI: Dr. Millie Long Contact: Madison Schumacher madison_schumacher@med.unc.edu
University of Maryland PI: Dr. Seema Patil Contact: Beth Scism bscism@som.umaryland.edu		Vanderbilt University PI: Dr. Dawn Beaulieu Contact: Tanner Rakos tanner.rakos@vumc.org