Arthur A. Kornbluth, MD is Clinicial Professor of Medicine, the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. Asher A. Kornbluth completed his medical degree at Downstate Medical Center in New York and completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine as both Resident and Chief Resident at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. He was a gastroenterology fellow at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. A Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Internal Medicine (Gastroenterology subspecialty), Dr. Kornbluth holds membership in the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as both a Clinician and Educator. He has received numerous awards as a medical educator, including the Teacher of the Year for six years at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He has received the William Dock Award for Lifetime Master Teacher Award in Medicine, from the Downstate Medical Center in New York. Dr. Kornbluth has published more than 100 articles, abstracts, and book chapters and is the principal author of all 3 editions of Ulcerative Colitis Practice Guidelines in Adults, published by the American College of Gastroenterology. He has published in and is a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Journal, for which he is also an Associate Editor. Currently, he is a principal investigator on a number of clinical trials examining novel therapies in inflammatory bowel disease, the role of new diagnostic techniques and cancer screening in IBD, and outcomes research in patients with severe ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Dr. Kornbluth has taught and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally, and he is the founder and annual Course Director of the Mt. Sinai IBD Consultants Course.