Meet Our Team

Seema Aceves, MD, PhD

Rady Children's Hospital/University of California San Diego

San Diego, CA & Murrieta, CA

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, mechanisms and clinical impacts of tissue remodeling especially in EoE

Sara Anvari, MD, MSc, FAAP, FACAAI, FAAAAI 

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, food allergy, FPIES

Mirna Chehade, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Evan Dellon, MD, MPH

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Glenn Furuta, MD

Children's Hospital Colorado

Aurora, CO

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Nirmala Gonsalves, MD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, GERD, esophageal disorders, swallowing disorders

Sandeep Gupta, MD, AGAF, FACG, FASGE

University of Alabama at Birmingham/Children's of Alabama

Birmingham, AL

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

In Memory of Ikuo Hirano, MD

Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

Principal Investigator

Girish Hiremath, MD, MPH

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Columbus, OH

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Elizabeth Jensen, MPH, PhD

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, NC

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Gastrointestinal disease research

Paneez Khoury, MD, MHSc, FAAAAI

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, rare hypereosinophilic syndromes

Amy Klion, MD

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, rare hypereosinophilic syndromes

John Leung, MD

Boston Specialists

Boston, MA

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, mast cell diseases, asthma, allergy and immunology

Kristle Lynch, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, GERD, esophageal disorders, swallowing disorders

Calies Menard-Katcher, MD, MSCS

Children’s Hospital Colorado

Aurora, CO

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Paul Menard-Katcher, MD

University of Colorado

Aurora, CO

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic esophagitis, inflammatory conditions of the esophagus, GERD, Barrett's esophagus and achalasia

Robert Pesek, MD

Arkansas Children's Hospital

Little Rock, AR & Springdale, AR

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, food allergy, asthma

Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, OH

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, asthma, allergy, food allergy

Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases, asthma, food allergy, eczema

Amiko M. Uchida, MD

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT & Farmington, UT

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Immune disorders of the GI tract, eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders, inflammatory bowel disease

Joshua Wechsler, MD, MSCI

Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital

Chicago, IL

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Benjamin Wright, MD

Mayo Clinic Arizona and Phoenix Children's Hospital

Phoenix, AZ

Principal Investigator

Expertise: Food allergy and eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Nicoleta C. Arva, MD, PhD

Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio State University College of Medicine

Columbus, OH

Pathologist

Margaret H. Collins, MD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Cincinnati, OH

Pathologist

Maria A. Pletneva, MD, PhD

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Pathologist

Guang-Yu Yang, MD, PhD

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Richmond, VA

Pathologist

Lisa J. Martin, PhD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, OH

Statistician

Rachel Andrews

Children’s Hospital Colorado

Aurora, CO

CEGIR Project Manager

Regina Yearout

Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Cincinnati, OH

CEGIR Project Manager