Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
Edward V. Loftus, Jr. is a gastroenterologist with extensive experience as a clinician researcher in the field of inflammatory bowel diseases. He currently is Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Professor Loftus completed medical school at University of Pennsylvania and residency at Temple University Health. He completed GI fellowship at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and has been on Mayo Clinic staff since 1995. He was director of the IBD Interest Group 2008-19. Professor Loftus is a Fellow of American College of Physicians (ACP), American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), and American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). He's a member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation. He was elected member of the International Organisation of the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in 2008.
Among Professor Loftus’s awards are the Mayo Department of Medicine Laureate Award and the CCFA, Minnesota - Dakotas Chapter, Physician of the Year Award. He was awarded AGA’s Distinguished Clinician Award and the AGA IMIBD section’s Research Mentor Award in 2019. He was awarded Outstanding Mentorship in Research in 2019 by Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine.
Professor Loftus has published over 400 original articles, book chapters, or editorials and more than 600 abstracts. Professor Loftus has been the principal investigator on mulitple studies focusing on the epidemiology and natural history of inflammatory bowel disease, and has served as the local PI on multiple clinical trials of investigational agents for IBD.
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