Digestive Health Center

Jorge A. Bezerra, MD, Center Director

Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD, Center Investigator

Bruce J. Aronow, PhD, Gene Analysis Core Co-Director

Lee A. Denson, MD, Center Associate Director

Heidi J. Kalkwarf, PhD, RD, Center Associate Director 

S. Steven Potter, PhD, Gene Analysis Core Co-Director

Nikolai Timchenko, PhD, Center Investigator

James M. Wells, PhD, Pluripotent Stem Cell and Organoid Core Director

Cynthia C. Wetzel, PhD, Center Manager

Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD, PhD, Integrative Morphology Core Director

Aaron M. Zorn, PhD, Center Associate Director

James E. Heubi, MD, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Director Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training; Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Kristine Justus, PhD, Vice President, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation; Associate Director, Research Operations, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Raphael Kopan, PhD, Director, Division of Developmental Biology; Associate Director of Basic Sciences, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation; Chair, Basic Science Research Committee, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation; Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Biology

Anjaparavanda P. Naren, PhD, Director, Cystic Fibrosis Research Center; Thomas Boat Chair in Cystic Fibrosis Research; Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary Biology

Patrick Tso, PhD, Director Mouse Metabolic Phenotype Center; Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Susanne I. Wells, PhD, Director, Epithelial Carcinogenesis and Stem Cell Program; Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Oncology, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute

Lopa Mishra, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery; Director, Center for Translational Medicine; George Washington University

Noah F. Shroyer, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Baylor College of Medicine

Scott B. Snapper, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Associate Director Liver Center; University of California San Francisco