Amy L. Lightner MD MBA
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Amy L. Lightner is the Chief Medical Officer at Calibr-Skaggs at Scripps Research, the Aline Skaggs Family Chair and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research Institute and Professor of Surgery at Scripps Clinic 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. She has been the PI of six phase II clinical trials using mesenchymal stem cells for inflammatory bowel disease, 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 past surgical co-chair for the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO), past executive council for Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, member of the clinical practice guidelines committee and inflammatory bowel disease committee for ASCRS, and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery Open.
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