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

Nikolai Timchenko, PhD, 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

Louis Muglia, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Research, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation; A. Graeme Mitchell Chair and Director, Division of Human Genetics; 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

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

Scott B. Snapper, MD, PhD, Wolpow Family Chair in IBD Treatment and Research; Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Basic & Translational Research (Boston Children’s Hospital); Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research (Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital); Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Rebecca G. Wells, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology); Bioengineering; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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