Stephen B. Hanauer, MD

Stephen B. Hanauer, MD is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology and Director of the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at The University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He is also Director of the Logan Center for Gastrointestinal Research and Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Center at The University of Chicago.

Dr. Hanauer received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and his doctorate of medicine, with honors, from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Hanauer
is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Gastroenterology, respectively.

At the University of Chicago, Dr. Hanauer’s responsibilities include serving on numerous committees. In connection with the American Gastroenterological Association, he served as chair for the Inflammation, Immunology, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section, subsequently also serving as Councilor for Clinical Research on the governing board and as chair of the Clinical Practice Section. He is the recipient of both the AGA/Miles and Shirley Fiterman Foundation Clinical Research in Gastroenterology Award and the Janssen Award for Clinical Excellence.

Dr. Hanauer has authored or co-authored hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, abstracts, monographs, and editorials. He also designed and maintains a 6,000-patient database for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Registry.

Dr. Hanauer is Editor-in-Chief of Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the American Journal of Medicine, and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. He is the outgoing chairman of the International Organization for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.