Evening of Hope- Mardi Gras supporting Crohn's & Colitis Foundation - Philadelphia Delaware Valley Chapter
Dr. Lindsey Albenberg
The Gold Medallion Award is presented to a physician, scientist, or health care professional who is a leader in IBD and has exhibited outstanding contributions to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and their patients through their dedication to clinical care, research and/or community work.
Dr. Lindsey Albenberg
The Gold Medallion Award is presented to a physician, scientist, or health care professional who is a leader in IBD and has exhibited outstanding contributions to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and their patients through their dedication to clinical care, research and/or community work.
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Lindsey Albenberg, DO, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the program director for the Fellowship in Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease and her clinical practice focuses on dietary therapies for IBD. Dr. Albenberg is a researcher within the Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease at CHOP. One of her key research interests is the response of the gut microbiota to dietary modification in inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Albenberg has contributed to the literature in several areas related to the gut microbiota in health and disease including work examining how the host and the microbiota interact to maintain a dynamic oxygen equilibrium in the gut, work describing the fungal gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, and work describing the relationship between diet, the microbiota, and inflammatory bowel disease. She has a special interest in training the next generation of IBD researchers and has mentored numerous medical students, residents, and fellows.