Bo Shen

Bo Shen is the Edelman-Jarislowsky Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery) at Columbia University Medical Center, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery and IBD Interventional Endoscopy. After earning his medical degree from Nantong University and completing a fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, he has pioneered interventional inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), focusing on endoscopic management of ileal pouch disorders, stricturotomy for Crohn’s disease, and postoperative complications. He led international consensus guidelines on pouchitis and surgically altered bowel published in *Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology*. His recent work examines pouch cancer, perianal fistula imaging, and anastomotic bleeding. He has received the AGA Distinguished Clinician Award (2023) and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Premier Physician Award (2008).