Stephen Hanauer

Dr. Hanauer is an internationally recognized expert on the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. He currently serves as the medical director of the Digestive Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and as the Clifford Joseph Barborka Professor of Medicine. After earning his medical degree from the University of Illinois, Dr. Hanauer completed his internship and residency in internal medicine followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Chicago. There Dr. Hanauer was mentored by one of the great clinicians in American gastroenterology, the legendary Dr. Joseph B. Kirsner. Dr. Hanauer held a Professorship in Medicine at Chicago named for Dr. Kirsner.

As Chairman of the Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee at the US Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Hanauer authored the FDA’s “Guidelines for Clinical Evaluation of Drugs for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease”. From 2014-2015, he served as president of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), where he has been a member of the ACG Board of Trustees since 2006, an officer of the ACG since 2010 and a contributing committee member since 1989. He has represented the ACG at the FDA related to the development of end-points for IBD in a series of “GREAT” meetings. He edited Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology and chaired the ACG Finance Committee from 2011 to 2012. Dr. Hanauer has also held leadership positions in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) as chair of the Sections on Infection, Immunology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease as well as Clinical Practice, and served on the AGA Governing Board as a Counselor for Clinical Research. Internationally, he is a member of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO) and is a former chairman of the International Organization for IBD (IOIBD).

Dr. Hanauer was awarded the AGA Fiterman Foundation Joseph B. Kirsner Award in Gastroenterology in 2001 and the AGA Janssen Award for Clinical Excellence in GI in 2004. He is currently an Associate Editor for Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. In addition, Dr. Hanauer has worked with the American Board of Internal Medicine serving on the Gastroenterology sub-specialty. He has also held leadership positions within the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America and in 2011 received CCFA’s Scientific Achievement Award for Clinical Research. Over the course of his career, Hanauer has authored or co-authored hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, monographs, and editorials.