Ellen J. Scherl, M.D.
Ellen J. Scherl, M.D.
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About Ellen J. Scherl, M.D.
Ellen J. Scherl, M.D. is the Jill Roberts Professor of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå°æ. She is currently an Attending Physician at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Dr. Scherl is a world-renowned expert in Inflammatory Bowel Disease specializing in Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Dr. Scherl has an active practice and serves as a principal investigator on many clinical trials on Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. As part of Dr. Scherl's comprehensive approach to patient care, she closely collaborates with world renowned IBD surgical team lead by experts Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi and Dr. Jeffrey Milsom, complimented by Dr. Toyoki Sonoda. The team is known for innovative surgical approaches including laparoscopic and endoscopic techniques as well as bowel sparing surgeries. Dr. Oscar Lebwohl of The New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Campus also works closely with Dr. Scherl in her efforts.
The is exploring ways of integrating healthcare and IBD research looking forward to achieving preventive and personalized medicine. The IBD Center is committed to the interdisciplinary approach to Inflammatory Bowel Disease focusing on nutrition, osteoporosis, nephrology, dysplasia, and colon cancer screening using novel techniques such as narrow band imaging. Dr. Scherl frequently lectures on Inflammatory Bowel Disease at local, regional and national meetings, conferences and seminars.
Ellen J. Scherl, M.D. is the Jill Roberts Professor of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå°æ. She is currently an Attending Physician at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Dr Scherl is the Jill Roberts Professor of Clinical Medicine. She is committed to caring for the community of individuals and families living with Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis while curing IBD through collaborations focusing on individualized medicine by illuminating endoscopic, immunologic, microbial, genetic and molecular signatures and pathways. Since joining the WCMC/NYPH she has established a longitudinal patient database which documents ongoing validated disease activity indices in the individual daily EMR.
She has an active practice and serves as a principal investigator on national and international randomized clinical trials as well as investigator initiated trials evaluating innovative strategies and investigational therapies for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease. She lectures nationally and internationally on optimizing IBD therapies and redefining the impact of innovative therapies on existing strategies.
Dr. Scherl established the IBD Center at NY Presbyterian Hospital / Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå°æ in 2002 and became the Founding Director of the Jill Roberts Center for IBD (JRC IBD) in 2006. She is currently the Research Director of JRC. She established the JRC along with the late Jill Roberts as a joint labor of love. She has forged inspired collaborations with Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s pediatricians, colorectal surgeons, nutritionisits, researchers and multidisciplinary consultants.
The Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease is exploring comprehensive approaches toward integrating nutrition, healthcare and IBD research, looking forward to achieving preventive and personalized medicine. The JRC IBD Center is committed to the interdisciplinary approach to Inflammatory Bowel Disease focusing on nutrition, osteoporosis, nephrology, dysplasia, and colon cancer screening using novel techniques such as narrow band imaging.
In collaboration with the Jill Roberts Institute she has established an IBD live cell bank. She has collaborated with researchers at Cornell University to identify a novel E. Coli bacteria associated with Crohn's Disease and continues to collaborate with Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital researchers investigating the immunogenetics and immunobiology of IBD.
Castle Connolly has consistently honored Dr Scherl as one of America's Top Doctors® in 2020 and celebrates New York Metro Top Doctors 15th Anniversary 2020
She is the 2020 honoree for the CCF Humanitarian of the Year Award. She has received the 2012 CCFÀ Woman of the year award 2008 AGA award for Outstanding Women In Science and in 2007 was awarded the NYSGE Florence Lefcourt Distinguished Service Award.
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America Woman of Distinction 1995
NYSGE Florence Lefcourt Distinguished Service Award January 2007
"“Does the Degree of Endoscopic Severity in Patients with Crohn's Disease Correlate with Pathologic Findings on Mucosal Biopsy Specimens?"” Mendelsohn, R.B., Bramlage, M., Makhoul, Y., Scherl, EJ, Yantiss, R., and Bosworth, B.P.
This was presented as a combination of the Division of the Roberts Center for IBD, the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York. This received Honorable mention or poster of distinction by Weill Cornell Medical Center. May 2007
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M.D.New York Medical College1977
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Jill Roberts Professor of Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseWeill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
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Adjunct Professor of Clinical MedicineColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Attending PhysicianNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
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Professor of Clinical MedicineWeill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
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