AlanBuchmanMDMSPH

Summary

• Dr. Buchman is a board-certified gastroenterologist that specializes in Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, short bowel syndrome, intestinal failure, malabsorption,and intestinal transplantation. Professor of Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago/UI Health where he is the Medical Director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Program and the Director of Gastroenterology at Anthem Health.
  
  Dr. Buchman has served on 21 peer-reviewed journal editorial boards in such capacities as associate editor and section editor, and has authored nearly 250 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, book chapters and four books. He has been the recipient of numerous national awards from the American Gastroenterology Association (The Fitterman Foundation’s Hugh Butt Award in Hepatology and Nutrition), American Society for Nutrition (Physician Nutrition Specialist Award and the Mead Johnson Award), American College of Nutrition (Grace Goldsmith Award), the American Society for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award), the Southern Medical Society (Seale Harris Award), and the Chicago Medical School Distinguished Alumni Award.
  
  Dr. Buchman, a former president of the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR) has served on numerous national committees, including the FDA’s Gastrointestinal Drugs Review Committee, where he has served as acting chair, the AGA’s Education and Manpower and Training Committees, the Council of the Central Society for Clinical Research, and the Congressional National Commission on Digestive Diseases. He is a past the chair of the AGA’s Nutrition and Obesity Section.
  
  
  Dr. Buchman’s research has focused on complications and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease as well as the complications of intestinal failure and long-term parenteral nutrition, and has published seminal manuscripts in these areas. Dr. Buchman is considered a world authority in nutritio