NEWS

The above image is the cover of the recent issue of our departmental newsletter, "GutDigest".

NEW Team Member:

Former fellow Dr. Xavier Llor opens FGICU Clinic.
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Dr. Allan Halline and Dr. Jay Goldstein open IBD Clinic.
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Mrinalini Rao appointed Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.
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Fellowship Spotlight
Jae Kim, M.D. - 2nd Year GI Fellow

My clinical research at UIC entails using aberrant crypt foci (ACF) as a surrogate biomarker for assessing colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. Current literature supports that diet and lifestyle as well as other things do have an impact on decreasing your risk. Current literature supports that
diet and lifestyle as well as other things do have an impact on decreasing your risk.
If ACF is the earliest biomarker for colorectal cancer than future chemo-preventive studies can use this information to better ascertain preventive measures. We are using known risk factors and assessing how ACF enumeration might influence the overall colorectal cancer risk. Here at UIC, we are building an ACF database to assess the overall risk of tubular adenomas, which are known be the earliest precursor to colon cancer progression, and its association with ACF enumeration.