Chief Medical Officer and Professor of Molecular Medicine
Scripps Clinic and Scrips Research Institute
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA, United States
Amy Lightner MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Calibr-Skaggs at Scripps Research, Professor of Surgery adn Scripps Clinic, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Immunology at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, CA. Dr. Lightner completed her undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Stanford University, medical school at Boston University, general surgery residency training at University of California Los Angeles, and post-doctoral work at Stanford University in stem cell biology. She finished her surgical training with colorectal fellowship at Mayo Clinic where she stayed as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and was the Medical Director for the Center for Regenerative Medicine. She was later recruited to Cleveland Clinic as Associate Professor of Surgery, and to be the Director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Surgery. She was later recruited back to her hometown of San Diego to actively continue her work in IBD drug development for Scripps Research Institute and surgical practice at Scripps Clinic and Rady Children’s Hospital. She has a particular interest in cell therapy for inflammatory bowel disease, and 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 the surgical co-chair for the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO), chair of Southern California Chapter of Young Women in Bio, a member of the clinical practice guidelines committee and IBD committee for ASCRS, and on executive council for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.
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