Amy Lightner
Amy Lightner, MD - Colorectal Surgeon, Professor, and Researcher
A recipient of the Sherman Prize Award, Amy Lightner, MD, is a colorectal surgeon at Scripps Clinic Medical Group in San Diego, California. She has deep experience in clinical research and serves as a professor of molecular medicine, immunology, and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute. In that capacity, Amy Lightner, MD, leads a team of scientists in a translational laboratory working on drug discovery for inflammatory bowel disease.
In addition to her academic and research appointments, Amy Lightner, MD, has served as a director at the Centers for Regenerative Medicine at both Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. In close to two decades, she has guided several Phase I–III clinical trials investigating treatments for inflammatory bowel disease. Her work has helped advance novel stem cell therapies, particularly for Crohn’s disease. Amy Lightner, MD, is widely published, serves on editorial boards for leading surgical and gastroenterology journals, and has presented at national and international medical conferences.
Amy Lightner, MD, is the past surgical chair of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and sits on the executive committee of Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She has led and served on several medical organizations’ committees and currently chairs the Southern California Chapter of Young Women in Bio.
A graduate of Stanford University and Boston University School of Medicine, Amy Lightner, MD, completed residency training at UCLA. She possesses an executive MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. She enjoys swimming and water polo (played as an undergraduate at Stanford).
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