This week we spoke to Michele Rubin! Michele is an advanced practice nurse and is the Associate APN Director of the IBD Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. She specializes in surgery for IBD and has helped to create a J-Pouch specific clinic. We talked to...
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Meet Dr. Jeremy Adler!
This week we had a great conversation with Dr. Jeremy Adler! Dr. Adler is the Director of the Pediatric IBD Program at CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan. We talked to him about his research interests in quality of care improvements, health...
Meet Sam R.!
This week we had such a great conversation with Sam Reid! Sam works in digital engagement and communications for an independent, nonpartisan policy institute in Washington D.C. Her Crohn's disease has had a big impact on her career and many of the issues that she...
Research Roundup with Stacey Collins, RD and Josie McGarva- GI Psychologist- Crohn's & Colitis Congress
This week friends of the show Stacey Collins, RD and Josie McGarva, GI Psychologist join us to recap the Crohn's & Colitis Congress. Congress is a conference for IBD HealthCare providers and researchers that's held by the American Gastroenterological...
Meet Maurie J!
This week we talked to Maurie Jhaveri! Maurie was diagnosed with Crohn's when she was 11 years old but she was not stranger to Crohn's. Her dad was also diagnosed when he was 11 and so she was already a bit familiar with it but obviously had many questions...
Meet Kelly Issokson, RD!
This week we talked to Kelly Issokson, RD! Kelly is the Clinical Nutrition Coordinator at the F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California. Kelly provides nutrition therapy to children and adults in the IBD...
Meet Erron J. Maxey!
This week we talked to Erron J. Maxey! Erron is a retired International Professional Basketball Player and now a banker. He had his first Crohn's flare when he was traveling in Columbia for his job and that started a pretty wild ride to get diagnosed and to find...
Meet Christine R.!
This week we had the pleasure of talking to corporate executive, wife, mother, nonprofit board member, support group leader, author, and all around badass Christine Rich. And boy did we go all in on this conversation! We talked about mental health, body image, eating...
Meet Dr. Bhaskar Gurram!
We're ringing in the new year with a great episode! This week we talk to Dr. Bhaskar Gurram! Dr. Gurram is a pediatric gastroenterologist specializing in IBD at Children's Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern. We talked to him about the genetics of IBD...
Meet Dani E.!
We had the pleasure of getting to know Dani Edelstein in this episode! We talked to her about being diagnosed when she was only 8 years old and what it was like for her as the child of a doctor to have to navigate the medical system on her own when she got to be an...
Meet Lauren EB!
This week we caught up with our friend Lauren Erbach Barnfield! We've both known Lauren for several years but have never heard her full IBD story so it was really great to hear it all. We talked about her participation in the PIANO study which is a study about...
Meet Will A.!
This week we really enjoyed hearing Will Awve's story! We talked about his diagnosis with UC in college and how that affected his college experience. We discussed him trying basically all medication options to try to control his UC, his bouts with C. Diff, and...
Meet Joshua S.!
This week we had such a great conversation with Joshua Samudre! Joshua is a medical student living with UC and so we talked to him about what it's like to study medicine while also a consumer of medicine. We talked to him about moving across the country and...
Research Roundup #2 with Dr. Sunanda Kane and Dr. Lukasz Kwapisz
Welcome to our second Research Roundup episode! We brought back Dr. Sunanda Kane- Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic and Dr. Lukasz Kwapisz- Assistant Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine to talk to us about the latest in what's happening in IBD...
Meet Dr. Sabina Ali!
This week we had a great chat with Dr. Sabina Ali! Dr. Ali is a pediatric gastroenterologist and the medical director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. She also happens to be living with IBD herself. We talked...
Meet Matt K.!
This week we spoke to Matthew Kasabian! Matt told us about being diagnosed with IBD in college and how isolated it made him feel. He talked about how he saw all his friends out living their young, fun lives on social media and how frustrated he felt but also how he...
Meet Registered Dietitian Neha Shah!
This week we tried something new! We let our friend Stacey Collins guest host the show! Stacey is a Registered Dietitian who specializes in IBD and our guest this week is Neha Shah who is also a Registered Dietitian who specializes in IBD. In addition to being a RD,...
Meet Wendy K.!
This is week we had such a fun conversation with Wendy Kovich! Wendy was diagnosed with Crohn's in her 20's very shortly after she married and it's been quite the roller coaster since. We talked to her about navigating through treatment options and...
Meet Dr. Tauseef Ali!
This week we talked to Dr. Tauseef Ali! Dr. Ali is the medical executive director of Saints Digestive Institute and director of IBD clinical and research program at SSM Health Saint Anthony Hospital. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the...
Meet Jason W.!
This week we had a great conversation with our friend Jason Wild! We talked to him quite a bit about how he found a community of people living with IBD through Camp Oasis and how he's evolved from a counselor to a "Leader in Training" lead to a Camp...
Meet Dr. Claire Hamnett- Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist
This week we shared a Rowdy Mermaid and had such an interesting conversation with Dr. Claire Hamnett! Dr. Hamnett is a pelvic floor physical therapist at Solstice Physiotherapy in New York City and she has a special interest in working with people living with IBD. We...
Meet Dr. Jeanne Tung!
This week we talked to Dr. Jeanne Tung! Dr. Tung is the Director of the Center for Pediatric IBD at OU Health. We talked to her helping kids transition and transfer to adult IBD care and we talk to her about her involvement in ImproveCareNow which is a collaborative...
It's Robin and Stacey's 1 Year J-Pouch-iversary!
This week we bring back Stacey Collins, RDN to celebrate(?) jpouch-iversaries. We talked about what Stacey and I have learned and what's been happening in our lives. We shared some tips and some of the not-so-pretty aspects of recovery to give you a better...
Meet Ben and Katie!
This week we talk to Ben and Katie Portier. We talk to them about navigating Ben's IBD from dating to married life, from flares to hospital stays, to surgery, and life with an ostomy. We talk about anxiety, body image, managing relationships, and being social. We...
Meet Dewey!
This week we talked to self-described "IBD Dinosaur" Dewey Thom! Dewey has been living with IBD for more than 40 years and has lived quite a bit of that time with a J-Pouch. We talked to him a lot about the importance of finding a community of people who...
Meet Courtney Robert, LCSW!
This week we talk to Courtney Robert, LCSW! Courtney is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist for the IBD Center at GI Alliance in Baton Rouge, LA! We talked to her about the IBD Center that they're building that provides a holistic approach to IBD...
Meet Tina of Own Your Crohn's Fame!
We were so excited to talk to Tina Aswani Omprakash this week! Tina is a powerhouse in our community and we loved hearing her IBD story and all of the awesome things she's been working on- and despite the super-sized episode, we just scratched the surface! We...
Bonus Episode! BMs 1st Anniversary!
We can hardly believe it but 1 year ago we published the first episode of Bowel Moments! Robin and I took this opportunity to reflect back on the last year, to talk about what we've learned, and to discuss how much we've loved working on this podcast. We...