InCHIP Lecture Series, Spring 2016
“Celiac Disease Genomic, Environmental, Microbiome and Metabolomic Study: A Paradigm of Multi-omics in Autoimmune Diseases”
Alessio Fasano, MD, Mass General Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
UConn Department of Allied Health Sciences
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health
UConn School of Nursing
UConn Department of Statistics
Location
InCHIP Colloquium, Room 14, 1st floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.
About the Speaker
World-renowned pediatric gastroenterologist, research scientist and entrepreneur Alessio Fasano, M.D., founded the Center for Celiac Research in 1996. His visionary research led to the awareness of celiac disease as a growing public health problem in the United States. His prevalence study published in 2003 established the rate of celiac disease at 1 in 133 Americans. In 2000, he and his team discovered zonulin, opening up the door to a new way of looking at the function of intestinal permeability, not only as it affects the gut, but also what role it plays throughout all the systems of the body in both inflammation and autoimmunity.
As Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Fasano moved the Center to Boston in 2013, where he treats both children and adults for gluten-related disorders. A passionate advocate for collaboration in research and clinical work, Dr. Fasano recently authored Gluten Freedom to provide patients, healthcare providers and general readers an evidence-based yet entertaining book to dispel confusion about gluten and how it can affect your health.
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