लेखक: Francis Farraye

Sunanda V. Kane, MD, MSPH, is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; physician chair of the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy’s Fellow Subcommittee; and assistant chair of patient experience in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Kane, who has been practicing medicine for 22 years, served as president of the American College of Gastroenterology from 2018 to 2019 and recently completed a five-year term on the Gastroenterology Specialty Council of the American Board of Internal Medicine. She also chaired the National Patient Education Committee for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She runs a clinical practice that reflects her expertise in IBD, and her research focuses on new therapies, gender-specific issues, and medication adherence. In addition to the first two editions of this book, she has written more than 200 chapters, articles, and reviews. She was the first woman associate editor of Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, is IBD section editor for Up To Date, and serves in various editorial roles for other journals. Dr. Kane lives in Rochester, Minnesota.