Phillip Minar, MD, MS
- Medical Director, Shubert-Martin Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
- Program Director, Advanced Pediatric IBD Fellowship Training
- Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
- phillip.minar@cchmc.org
- Board Certified
About
BA: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
MS: Clinical and Translational Research, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
MD: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Residency: Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Fellowship: Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Certification: General Pediatrics; Pediatric Gastroenterology.
Interests
Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease; evidence-based care for children and young adults with IBD; sustained, prednisone-free clinical remission
Services and Specialties
Interests
Application of personalized medicine in the care of children and young adults with IBD through the discovery of surrogate biomarkers of intestinal inflammation; sensitive and specific pharmacodynamic biomarker, neutrophil CD64; innovative pharmacokinetic dosing platform, RoadMAB; personalized dosing of biologic therapies for patients with IBD; novel method to dose infliximab (guided by RoadMAB) from the start of treatment and throughout the maintenance phase to assess both the effectiveness and safety of model-informed precision dosing.
Research Areas
Locations (2)
Insurance Information
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Publications
Circulating and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Intestinal Fibrosis in Small Bowel Crohn's Disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 2025; 31:1380-1391.
HLA DQA1*05 and risk of anti-TNF treatment failure and anti-drug antibody development in children with Crohn's Disease: HLA DQA1*05 and Pediatric Crohn's Disease. The American Journal of Gastroenterology (Elsevier). 2025; 120:1076-1086.
HLA DQA1*05 and Risk of Antitumor Necrosis Factor Treatment Failure and Anti-Drug Antibody Development in Children With Crohn's Disease. The American Journal of Gastroenterology (Elsevier). 2025; 120:1076-1086.
Editorial: Baseline Drug Clearance Predicts Outcomes in Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treated With Vedolizumab. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2025; 61:1063-1064.
AN EVALUATION OF ENDOSCOPIC HEALING IN PEDIATRIC CROHN’S DISEASE USING MULTIPLE ENDOSCOPIC SCORING METHODS IDENTIFIES SIMILARITIES IN BLOOD AND STOOL BIOMARKERS. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 2025; 31:s59-s60.
AN EVALUATION OF ENDOSCOPIC HEALING IN PEDIATRIC CROHN’S DISEASE USING MULTIPLE ENDOSCOPIC SCORING METHODS IDENTIFIES SIMILARITIES IN BLOOD AND STOOL BIOMARKERS. Gastroenterology. 2025; 168:s84-s85.
Integrating early response biomarkers in pharmacokinetic models: A novel method to individualize the initial infliximab dose in patients with Crohn's disease. Clinical and Translational Science. 2025; 18:e70086.
Infliximab Monotherapy vs Combination Therapy for Pediatric Crohn's Disease Exhibit Similar Pharmacokinetics. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 2024; 30:1678-1685.
High Body Mass Index and Response to Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy in Pediatric Crohn's Disease. The American Journal of Gastroenterology (Elsevier). 2024; 119:1110-1116.
Challenges in IBD Research 2024: Pragmatic Clinical Research. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 2024; 30:S55-S66.
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