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Themistocles Dassopoulos, M.D.
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Themistocles Dassopoulos, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Co-Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program Dr. Themos Dassopoulos was recruited to the Gastroenterology Division at Washington University School of Medicine in 2008 as Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease program. The IBD program evaluates patients with Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, with a special interest in patients with refractory or complicated disease. The IBD team has several goals: To control disease, improve quality of life and prevent complications; to optimize medical and surgical therapies; to provide access to investigational therapies; to educate patients and physicians about IBD; and to better understand the mechanisms behind the abnormal inflammation that characterizes IBD. Dr. Dassopoulos received his M.D. degree from Brown University in 1991 and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1994. After a serving in the Greek Army (1994-1996), Dr. Dassopoulos completed his Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. In 2000, he became Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Dassopoulos’s research interests are: 1) IBD therapeutics; 2) diagnostic/prognostic testing (serologies, capsule endoscopy and genetics); and 3) the development of colon cancer in patients with colitis. Dr Dassopoulos is using novel endoscopic techniques (chromoendoscopy and narrow band imaging) to detect early colon cancer in patients with colitis, and is also investigating biomarkers for colon cancer in these patients. In collaboration with computer scientists, he is developing tools for the digital recognition and grading of Crohn’s disease lesions captured by small bowel capsule endoscopy.
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Division of Gastroenterology
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