REACH-IBD: Rising Educators Academics and Clinicians Helping IBD
REACH-IBD is the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's IBD-focused platform for junior faculty, fellows, and post-doctoral scientists.
Our mission:
- To facilitate networking and career development
- To foster collaborative research and increase active participation in the clinical, educational and scientific research programs within the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
- To create and implement educational programs
Our vision:
Create and maintain a group of friends that forms a dynamic basis for IBD leadership.
Membership eligibility:
Through professional membership, emerging IBD pros can network, educate, collaborate, and advance professionally.
Join/renew as an Early Career Physician ($150) For physicians, post-doctoral scientists and junior faculty from the medical and surgical specialties with an interest in inflammatory bowel disease who are no more than 7 years post-fellowship or doctoral training
Join as a Trainee Member (Free) For students, residents, and fellows in a relevant training program or gastroenterology/IBD fellowship
Membership benefits:
- Join the Foundation community of professional members
- Form strategic connections through networking and career development programs at the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress® and Digestive Diseases Week
- Learn from professional mentors
- Raise your profile by contributing to the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Journal
- Collaborate on research projects
- Access expert guidance and peer community through the IBD Circle, a forum provided in partnership with the American College of Gastroenterology
Opportunities/Resources:
- Workshops with table discussions at Crohn's & Colitis Congress and Digestive Diseases Week
- Educational videos
- REACH MD podcasts and audio abstracts
- IBD Journal Social Media Contributor Team
- Trainee needs assessment publications:
Meet the REACH-IBD Committee, a subset of the Foundation's National Scientific Advisory Committee (NSAC):
| Ryan Ungaro, MD | Mount Sinai |
| Kelly Cushing, MD | University of Michigan |
| Oriana Damas, MD | Miami Health |
| Laura Hart, MD | McGill University |
|
Taha Qazi, MD |
Cleveland Clinic |
| Jennifer Seminerio, MD | University of South Florida |
| Rachel Winter, MD | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Poonam Beniwal-Patel, MD | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| David Fudman, MD | UT Southwestern |
| Adam Faye, MD | NYU Langone Health |