Associate Professor
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH, United States
Amy Lightner, MD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, OH, the Associate Chair of Surgical Research, and is an Associate Professor of Inflammation and Immunity with a focus on regenerative therapy for Crohn’s disease. Dr. Lightner received her B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University, completed her surgical training in General Surgery at UCLA, and post-doctoral work at Stanford University under a California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Training Grant focused on the differentiation pathways of embryonic stem cells. After completing her fellowship at Mayo Clinic, she stayed on as surgical faculty, and was the Medical Director for the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Mayo Clinic. She was then recruited to Cleveland Clinic to focus on complex inflammatory bowel disease, continue her work in translational science and clinical trials, and start a regenerative medicine program. She has now founded, and is the current director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and is the PI of six active phase II clinical trials using mesenchymal stem cells for inflammatory bowel disease. She has received extramural funding from the Helmsley Foundation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, Cure for IBD, Rainin Foundation, and American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ASCRS). She is a member of the editorial board of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Colorectal Disease, British Journal of Surgery, Crohn’s and Colitis 360, and Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, the surgical co-chair for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation annual meeting, the associate chair of the inflammatory bowel disease committee of ASCRS, vice chair of the national clinical practice guidelines committee for ASCRS, and chair of the surgical research committee for ASCRS.
Mesoblast (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; ossium helath (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Takeda (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant