Dr. Sunanda V. Kane is a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Kane has contributed over 120 papers of original research, 50 reviews, and 25 book chapters to the medical literature. She has coedited a pocket guide to the management of IBD for practitioners and written a book for patients on self-management. She is also the Past Chair of the National Patient Education Committee for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She served as the first female Associate Editor for Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics and continues to serve in editorial roles for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, and the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis. Dr. Kane is currently the President-Elect of the American College of Gastroenterology and sits on the GI Specialty Council of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Within the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, she is the Chair of Quality, where she is responsible for oversight of all quality improvement projects, measuring quality metrics for the faculty, and leading annual credentialing reviews, and is an adjunct faculty member to the Mayo Quality Academy. She continues to have a busy clinical practice seeing patients with inflammatory bowel disease and conducts research in the areas of new therapies, gender-specific issues, and medication adherence. Dr. Kane also teaches the second-year gastroenterology course in the Mayo Medical School, the medicine residents on the GI inpatient consult service, and gastroenterology fellows in clinic, on hospital service, and in the endoscopy suite. She served on the NEJM Journal Watch Gastroenterology editorial board until the publication’s closure in 2020.

Information about Dr. Kane was up to date at the time of her last affiliation with NEJM Journal Watch.