Associate Professor of Medicine
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Andres Yarur, MD, received completed an Internal Medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital-University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. This was followed by an Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease fellowship at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He was recruited as faculty in the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, establishing the inflammatory bowel disease research program until more recently, when he moved to Los Angeles and joined the inflammatory bowel disease institute at Cedars Sinai as an Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Yarur's research interests focus on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, including novel therapies and optimization of current treatments. He has received multiple awards from several national and international organizations including the ACG, AGA, the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization, the World Gastroenterology Association, and the United European Gastroenterology Society. He is a member of the Alpha-Omega-Alpha honor medical society and has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles, abstracts and book chapters in prestigious journals.