Leaders in Gastrointestinal Health

Geneoscopy’s Scientific Advisory Boards and strategic advisors are leaders in the gastrointestinal health space, with experience and accomplishments in research and clinical care.

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Leaders in Gastrointestinal Health

Geneoscopy’s Scientific Advisory Boards (SAB) and strategic advisors are subject matter experts from around the country in the areas of gastroenterology, oncology, and internal medicine. They abide by a mandate to draw from their scientific knowledge and clinical expertise in order to provide strategic input that will successfully guide Geneoscopy through a multi-phased approach towards commercialization and future research, starting with colorectal cancer screening and gastroinestinal diseases.

CRC Advisory Board

David Lieberman

MD, Board Chair

  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.
  • Past President of the American Gastroenterological Association.

John Carethers

MD, MACP

  • Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, University of California – San Diego.
  • President of the American Gastroenterological Association.
  • Past President of the American Association of Physicians.

Samir Gupta

MD

  • Professor of Medicine at University of California San Diego.

Folasade May

MD, PhD, MPhil

  • Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine and Associate Director of UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity.
  • Director of Quality Improvement in Gastroenterology at UCLA Health.
  • Member of the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer.

Aasma Shaukat

MD, MPH

  • Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine and Professor, Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine.
  • Member of the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer.

IBD Advisory Board

Matthew A. Ciorba

MD, Board Chair

  • Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Director, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Director, IBD Research, Washington University School of Medicine

Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan

MD, MPH

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center at Massachusetts General Hospital

Marla C. Dubinsky

MD

  • Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine (Gastroenterology), Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
  • Co-Director, Susan and Leonard Feinstein Clinical IBD Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Parambir S. Dulai

MD

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University
  • Director of GI Clinical Trials and Precision Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University

Laura E. Raffals

MD, MS

  • Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
  • Department of Medicine Associate Chair of Faculty Development, Mayo Clinic
  • Vice Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic

Strategic Advisors

George E. Catinis

MD

  • Board Certified Gastroenterologist, Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates of Metairie, Louisiana, GI Alliance
  • Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology
  • Medical Director, Department of Education, GI Alliance
  • Medical Director, New Orleans Resource Institute, GI Alliance

Aadel Chaudhuri

MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Division of Cancer Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Assistant Professor of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Research Focus: Liquid biopsy cell-free nucleic acids, including focus on the identification and measurement of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a cancer biomarker

Parakkal Deepak

MBBS, MS

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, John T. Milliken Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Director of Clinical and Translational Research, Division of Gastroenterology
  • Fellow, American College of Gastroenterology
  • Deputy Director, Data Quality & Enhancement, SPARC IBD Cohort of IBD Plexus, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation

Research Focus: Identification and utilization of non-invasive biomarkers and advanced imaging techniques for the quantification of disease activity, response to medical therapy, disease complications and cardiometabolic syndrome in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.

James (Jim) Merselis

  • Co-Founder & serves as Managing Director at Synchrony Bio.
  • Board member at Biosensia, Trinity Biotech (NASDAQ-GS: TRIB), Kypha and Geneoscopy
  • Director of Biosensia Ltd; a pre-commercial, point-of-care diagnostics company located in Dublin, Ireland
  • Chairman of Abram Scientific Inc., a point-of-care, coagulation monitoring company located in California
  • More than thirty-nine years of experience in healthcare, including more than two decades with Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics (now Roche Diagnostics

Bobby Sandage, Jr.

PhD

  • Over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry
  • President and CEO of Euclises Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Prior executive and senior leadership roles with BioSciense, Inc., Covidien (Mallinckrodt) Pharmaceuticals. Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Endo Pharmaceuticals, DuPont Merck, DuPont/American Critical Care, Merrell Dow, and Dow Pharmaceuticals.
  • Chairman at Immunophotonics, director at Tensive Controls, and Mateon Therapeutics
  • Advisory board member at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy and University of Arkansas College of Pharmacy
  • Adjunct Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
  • Published over 50 scientific articles and lectured for the Pharmaceutical Educational and Research Institute

Katherine Tynan

PhD

  • Founder of Tynan Consulting LLC, San Francisco, California
  • Board member and strategic advisor to diagnostics and life science tool companies