Digestive Health Center

Jorge A. Bezerra, MD, Center Director

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

Lee A. Denson, MD, Center Associate Director

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

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

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

Cynthia C. Wetzel, PhD, Center Manager

David P. Witte, MD, Integrative Morphology Core Director

Yana Zavros, PhD, Investigator

Aaron M. Zorn, PhD, Center Associate Director

James E. Heubi, MD, Associate Chair, Clinical Investigation of Pediatrics; 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

Louis Muglia, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Research, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation; Co-Director, Perinatal Institute; Director, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth; Professor of Pediatrics 

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

Yi Zheng, PhD, Katherine Stewart Waters Chair and Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology; Co-Director of the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute

Stephen Duncan, DPhil, Smartstate Chair in Regenerative Medicine; Professor and Chair; Medical University of South Carolina

Jacquelyn J. Maher, MD, William and Mary Ann Rice Memorial Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology; Program Director, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Liver Center; San Francisco General Hospital

D. Brent Polk, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Phillip I. Tarr, MD, Melvin E. Carnahan Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Molecular Microbiology; Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Co-Leader, Pathobiology Research Unit; Co-Director Washington University Digestive Disease Research Core Center; Washington University School of Medicine