Stephen Hanauer, MD, is the Clifford Joseph Barborka Professor of Medicine and medical director of the Digestive Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He is also the president of the American College of Gastroenterology. He previously served as the Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine, professor of clinical pharmacology and chief of gastroenterology and nutrition at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Hanauer focuses on Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease. He has won numerous awards over the course of his career, including the AGA Fiterman Foundation Joseph B. Kirsner Award in Gastroenterology in 2001 and the AGA Janssen Award for Clinical Excellence GI in 2004. He has served as a member and chair of the FDA's GI advisory panel and has also represented the ACG at the FDA in a series of meetings related to development of end-points for IBD.
Dr. Hanauer has authored or co-authored hundreds of peer-reviewed works published in a number of prestigious journals, such as the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis. He serves on the editorial boards of American Journal of Gastroenterology and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases as well as an associate editor of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Hanauer earned his medical degree at University of Illinois-Chicago. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Chicago.