The Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for Pediatric IBD and Celiac Disease Seminar Series invites national and international investigators to give state-of-the-art lectures, present recent scientific advances, and introduce new tools and technologies relevant to pediatric IBD and celiac disease. Our Seminar Series provides the Stanford community with the opportunity to develop new research initiatives and cultivate cross-disciplinary connections. Seminar topics span the translational research continuum.

Students, faculty, and postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to attend the seminars. Seminars are typically from 12:00pm-1:00pm at the specified locations listed in the registration portal. For questions about registration, please contact ibdceliacstaff@stanford.edu.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Spencer will be joining the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease Research Seminar Series to present “Two Frontiers in IBD: Prevention Clinic Implementation and Skin Tape Transcriptomics for Precision Care.” In this session, Dr. Spencer will highlight two innovative approaches reshaping pediatric IBD care: the use of noninvasive skin-tape transcriptomics to enable precision monitoring and therapy selection, and the design and implementation of a dedicated IBD Prevention Clinic for individuals at elevated risk—beginning with first-degree relatives of patients with IBD. Her talk will showcase how these complementary frontiers are advancing early detection, individualized care, and proactive disease prevention.