Executive Committee
Deborah C. Rubin, MD
Dr. Rubin received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She pursued residency training in internal medicine and gastroenterology clinical and research fellowship training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Rubin is a Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology and Pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Her clinical interests are in inflammatory bowel disease, short bowel syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome. Her research efforts focus on studying small bowel adaptation and mucosal repair following injury and resection, and examining epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in intestinal morphogenesis and carcinogenesis.
Dr. Rubin presently serves on the Council of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Council, as Vice-Chair of the Section on Nutrition and Obesity, and is also past Chair of the AGA’s Committee on Women in Gastroenterology. She is also a Councilor on the Steering Committee of the American Physiological Society for the Gastrointestinal and Liver Section, and is Chair of the Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine Program at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Rubin is also active in the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, as a member of the CCFA Research Training Awards Review Committee.