It is very important that your care team includes an IBD specialist with experience in disease management prior to and during pregnancy. This may mean seeing an expert in consultation, or switching to a provider who is experienced in this area. IBD specialists with expertise in fertility and pregnancy can help to guide you during each step of the family planning process, including optimizing your disease prior to attempting to conceive, advising on fertility and providing referrals to fertility specialists if indicated, managing your medications prior to and during pregnancy, and managing flares while pregnant. The involvement of this type of specialist will help you to be in the best possible position to conceive from the perspective of your IBD, and can help to ensure your disease is managed as safely and effectively as possible while you’re pregnant. You can also work with this provider to identify an OBGYN with experience caring for high risk patients, as well as a maternal fetal medicine specialist (MFM), who is trained to manage higher risk pregnancies.
To find an IBD pregnancy specialist near you, choose the state closest to you from the dropdown menu above.
Arizona
Scottsdale

Christina Ha, MD
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Section
Mayo Clinic Arizona
13400 East Shea Boulevard
Scottsdale AZ 85259
Phone: 480-301-6990

Manreet Kaur, MBBS, MD
Mayo Clinic
Phone: 480-301-8484
California
Irvine

Caroline Hwang, MD
Program Director for the Margolis
Family Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Program at Hoag
16405 Sand Canyon Ave
Irvine, CA 92618
Phone: 949-557-0251
Los Angeles

Nirupama N. Bonthala, MD
Director, Women's Health in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor
of Medicine Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Vatche and Tamar Manoukain Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Westwood Digestive Diseases
100 Medical Plaza, Suite 345
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310-206-6279

Puja V. Khanna, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Clinical Director of Women's Health
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Karsh Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases
Phone: 310-423-4100

Jenny S. Sauk, MD
Director of Clinical Care/Center for
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of
Digestive Disease at UCLA
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Phone: (855) IBD-UCLA

Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF
Executive Director of the F. Widjaja
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute
Cedars-Sinai
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone: 310-423-4100
San Francisco

Uma Mahadevan, MD
UCSF Center for Colitis and Crohn's Disease
1701 Divisadero Street, #120
San Francisco CA 94115
Phone: 415-502-4444
Email: gi@ucsfmedctr.org
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Co-Medical Director

Rishika Chugh, MD
UCSF Mount Zion
1701 Divisadero St., Suite 120, San Francisco,
CA 94115
Phone: (415) 502-4444
Stanford

Sarah Streett, MD, AGAF
Stanford Gastroenterology and Digestive Health Clinic
450 Broadway St Pav D 2nd Fl Pod 2 and 3
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: 650-736-5555
Fax: 650-498-6323
Email: sstreett@stanford.edu
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program Group
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Connecticut
New Haven

Jill Gaidos, MD
Yale School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
40 Temple Suite 1A
New Haven, Ct 06510
Phone: 203-785-4138
Florida
Miami

Oriana Mazorra Damas, MD
Director of Translational and Research,
Crohn’s and Colitis Center
Phone: 305-243-8644
Gainesville

Angela Pham, MD
University of Florida Health Digestive Disease Specialists
Phone: 352-273-9400
Orlando

Jennifer Seminerio, MD
Director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Associate Professor of Medicine
Advent Health Orlando, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Phone: 407-303-9921
Fax: 407-303-8998
Jacksonville

Jami Kinnucan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic Florida
Phone: 904-956-8894
Illinois
Chicago

Amelia Kellar
University of Chicago-River East
339 E. Grand Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 773-702-6169
Indiana
Indianapolis

Monika Fischer, MD, MSc
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
550 North University Boulevard, Suite 1602
Indianapolis IN 46202
Phone: 317-948-6234
Fax: 317-944-0975
Email: mofische@iu.edu
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Louisiana
New Orleans

Sarah Glover, DO AGAF
Professor of Medicine and Section Chief C.
Tulane University, School of Medicine
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504-988-5800
Thorpe Ray MD Chair in Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Medicine, Tulane Cancer
Center Member - Translational Oncology
Research Program

Shamita Shah, MD
Medical Director Inflammatory Bowel Disease,
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans
1514 Jefferson Hwy
New Orleans, LA 70121
Phone: 504-842-4015
Maryland
Baltimore

Aline Charabaty, MD, FACG, AGAF
Associate Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Medical Director of the Division of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Clinical
Director of the IBD Center at Johns Hopkins -
Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington DC
Phone: 202-660-5500
Massachusetts
Boston

Emily W. Lopes, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director for Clinical Investigation and Education, MGH
Gastroenterology Fellowship MGH Crohn's and Colitis Center
Phone: 617-726-5560
Fax: 617-726-3080

Liliana Perera, MD, AGAF
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center,
Tufts Medical Center
Phone: 617-636-5883

Loren Rabinowitz, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Phone: 617-667-2802

Sonia Friedman, MD, FACG
Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Tufts Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
800 Washington Street, Boston MA 02111
Phone: 617-636-5883
Chestnut Hill

Punyanganie De Silva MBBS, MRCP(UK)
Brigham and Women's Crohn's and Colitis Center
850 Boylston Street Suite 201
Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-732-6389
Email: pdesilva@partners.org
Associate Physician
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy
Minnesota
Rochester

Sunanda Kane, MD, MSPH, FACG, FACP, AGAF
Mayo Clinic Rochester
200 First Street SW
Rochester MN 55905
Phone: 507-284-0959
Email: Kane.Sunanda@mayo.edu
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology


Eugenia Shmidt, MD
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
909 Fulton St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-9709
Email: eshmidt@umn.edu
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Missouri
St. Louis

Kayci Huff, MD, PhD
Washington University St. Louis
Phone: 314-362-1026
Fax: 314-747-5871
New Jersey
New Brunswick

Lea Ann Chen, MD
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School
125 Paterson St
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-235-7784
New Hampshire
Concord

Leyla Ghazi, MD
Concord Hospital Gastroenterology
60 Commercial Street, Suite 404
Horseshoe Pond
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: (603) 228-1763
Fax: (603) 227-7539
New York
New York

Marla Dubinsky, MD
Mount Sinai Hospital
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1134
New York NY 10029
Phone: 212-241-5415
Fax: 646-537-8924
Email: marla.dubinsky@mssm.edu
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Co-Director, Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBDClinical Center
Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai New York

Zoë Gottlieb, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Marie and Barry Lipman IBD
Preconception and Pregnancy Planning Clinic
Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Phone: 212-241-8100

Lisa Malter, MD
Bellevue Hospital
462 1st Avenue
New York NY 10016
Email: Lisa.Malter@nyumc.org
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
Bellevue Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
NYU School of Medicine

Alexandra Gutierrez MD, MPH
Columbia University
Irving Medical Center
161 Fort Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-1021
Professor of Medicine and Director of the
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center in
Medicine at Columbia University Irving
Medical Center
North Carolina
Chapel Hill

Kim Isaacs, MD, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
130 Mason Farm Road
Bioinformatics Bldg. 4th Floor CB#7080
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone (scheduling): 984-974-5050
Email: klisaacs@med.unc.edu
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Millie D. Long, MD, MPH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Campus Box 7080
Chapel Hill NC 27599-7080
Phone (scheduling): 984-974-5050
Phone (office): 919-537-3378
Email: millie_long@med.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Ohio
Cincinnati

Anita Afzali, MD
Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
UC Health Physician’s Office
Phone: 513-475-7505

Kara de Felice, MD
University of Cincinnati, Associate Professor
of Clinical, Internal Medicine
CARE/Crawley Building, Suite E-870
3230 Eden Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45267
Phone: 513-558-5244
Pennsylvania
Hershey

Emmanuelle D. Williams, MD
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
P.O. Box 850
500 University Drive
Hershey PA 17033‐0850
Phone: 717-531‐3694 x3998 (IBD Nurse Navigator)
x5727 (IBD Care Nurse)
x1488 (IBD Medical Assistant)
Fax: 717-531‐6770
Email: ewilliams3@hmc.psu.edu
Medical Co-Director
Penn State Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Assistant Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Philadelphia

Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH, PhD
Penn Medicine
Phone: 215-349-8222
Co-Section Head and Research & Education
Director, Penn Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Program
Associate Professor of Medicine
(Gastroenterology) at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
San Juan

Esther A. Torres, MD, MACP, MACG, AGAF, FAASLD
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
UPR Medical Sciences Campus
San Juan PR 00935
Phone: 787-754-0101 ext 2418, 2419
Email: estheratorresmd@gmail.com
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Director, UPR Center for IBD
Tennessee
Nashville

Dawn B. Beaulieu, MD
Vanderbilt Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
One Hundred Oaks
719 Thompson Lane, Suite 20500
Nashville, TN 37204
Phone: 615-322-0128
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Sara Horst MD, MPH, FACG
Vanderbilt Professor, Division Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition
Medical Director, VUMC Amb Telehealth and VUMC Specialty Pharmacy
Clinical Health IT Director and Associate Vice Chair,
Digital Health Operations of Dept of Medicine
Phone: 615-322-0128
Texas
Houston

Bincy P. Abraham, MD, MS, FACG
Houston Methodist Hospital
Academic Gastroenterology Office
6550 Fannin Street, Smith 1001
Houston TX 77030
Phone: 713-441-3372
Fax: 713-797-0622
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine-Weill Cornell
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Director, Underwood Center-Fondren Inflammatory
Bowel Disease Program
Dallas

Tasneem Ahmed, DO
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
1801 Inwood Road
6th Floor, Suite 102
Dallas TX 75390-9083
Email: Tasneem.Ahmed@utsouthwestern.edu
Assistant Professor
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
Washington
Seattle

Nina Saxena, MD
Physician Faculty Inflammatory Bowel Disease
University of Washington Montlake Campus & Northwest Campus
Phone: 206-598-6110
Wisconsin
Madison

Sumona Saha, MD, MS
UW Medicine-Harborview Medical Center
750 University Row
Madison WI 53705
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health