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Marla C. Dubinsky, MD
Marla C. Dubinsky, MD, received her medical degree from Queen’s University in Canada. She completed her clinical pediatric gastroenterology training in Montreal, Canada. Currently, Dr. Dubinsky is the director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Dubinsky’s main research interests are the immune and genetic influences on the natural history and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Her main objective is to study how genetics and immune responses impact on the variability in clinical presentations of early onset IBD. Additional interests include the study of pharmacogenetics to evaluate how heredity influences drug responses and optimizing and individualizing the management of IBD. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Dubinsky has written for numerous peer reviewed journals including Gastroenterology, The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, and The American Journal of Gastroenterology. In addition, she has authored book chapters for Trends in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Therapy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Dr. Dubinsky has lectured widely at both a national and international level.