About IBDpsc.org
IBDpsc.org is a plain-language, evidence-based guide to IBD with primary sclerosing cholangitis (IBD-PSC), the distinct colitis it causes, its heightened cancer-surveillance needs, the liver disease, and pouch surgery. IBD-PSC is uncommon and under-explained, and the research that could inform care often takes ~17 years to reach the clinic; IBDpsc narrows that gap by pairing the newest IBD-PSC literature with a “deep and narrow” AI you can query in plain language. It is part of the IBDology family of paired provider and patient IBD sites.
This site was created by Stefan D. Holubar, MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS, Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine & Case Western Reserve University. A fellowship-trained colorectal surgeon who specializes in inflammatory bowel disease, he lives with IBD and a J-pouch himself and brings both the surgeon's and the patient's perspective to this work. He is co-PI of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation IBD-SIRCQ and the ACS-NSQIP IBD Collaborative, founder of the iPouch Consortium, and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Holubar is an employee of Cleveland Clinic, and has the following disclosures: research funding from the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, and has no other disclosures or conflicts of interest.