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Editor-in-Chief
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Gail Hecht, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Dr. Gail Hecht is Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology and Chief, Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dr. Hecht’s research focuses on the interactions between enteric bacterial pathogens and host intestinal epithelial cells, with emphasis on enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic E. coli. She is particularly interested in defining how effector molecules expressed by these pathogens and delivered into host cells alter physiological functions including tight junction permeability, ion transport, and innate immune responses.
The National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration fund Dr. Hecht’s research. She has authored many important peer-reviewed papers, invited reviews and book chapters, and served as editor of ‘Microbial Pathogenesis and the Intestinal Epithelial Cell’. She serves as Associate Editor for other prestigious journals in the field of gastroenterology including Gastroenterology and American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology and has served on the Editorial Board of others. She has been invited to present her research at numerous national and international meetings including Gordon Conferences and has organized others. She has served on Study Sections for the National Institutes of Health and chaired the section of Gastrointestinal Mucosal Pathobiology for two years.
Dr. Hecht received her M.S. in Medical Microbiology from the University of Missouri, earned her M.D. from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and received her fellowship training in Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. In addition to her current faculty position at the University of Illinois, she is actively involved with the American Gastroenterological Association and will serve as President of this organization from May 2009-May 2010.
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Associate Editors
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| Brett Finley |
The University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC Canada |
| James Kaper |
University of Maryland School of Medicine; Baltimore, MD USA |
| Beth McCormick |
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Charlestown, MA USA |
| Andrew Neish |
Emory University; Atlanta, GA USA |
| Richard Peek |
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Nashville, TN USA |
| John F. Rawls |
University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, NC USA |
| Terez Shea-O'Donohue |
University of Maryland; Baltimore, MD USA |
| James Versalovic |
Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX USA |
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Editorial Board
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| Harry Flint |
University of Aberdeen; Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Karla Fullner Satchell |
Northwestern University; Chicago, IL USA |
| Dale Gerding |
Hines VA Hospital; Hines, IL USA |
| Andrew Gewirtz |
Emory University; Atlanta, GA USA |
| Lora Hooper |
UT Southwestern Medical Center; Dallas, TX USA |
| Ciaran Kelly |
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School; Boston, MA USA |
| Denise Kelly |
University of Aberdeen; Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Wayne Lencer |
Children's Hospital; Boston, MA USA |
| John Leong |
University of Massachusetts Medical School; Worcester, MA USA |
| Virginia Miller |
Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis, MO USA |
| Eamonn Quigley |
University College Cork; Cork, Ireland |
| Mary Ellen Sanders |
ISAPP; Davis, CA USA |
| Balfour Sartor |
University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, NC USA |
| Vanessa Sperandio |
UT Southwestern Medical School; Dallas, TX USA |
| Phil Tarr |
Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis, MO USA |
| VK Viswanathan |
University of Illinois, Chicago; Chicago, IL USA |
| Liping Zhao |
Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine at Jiao Tong University; Shanghai, China |
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