Amy Lightner, MD
Amy Lightner is a professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Scripps Research and a colorectal surgeon at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, CA. Dr. Lightner completed her undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Stanford University, medical school at Boston University, general surgery residency training at University of California Los Angeles, and post-doctoral work at Stanford University in stem cell biology. She finished her surgical training with colorectal fellowship at Mayo Clinic where she stayed as an assistant professor of Surgery and was the medical director for the Center for Regenerative Medicine. She was later recruited to Cleveland Clinic as associate professor of Surgery, and to be the director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Surgery. She was later recruited back to her hometown of San Diego to actively continue her work in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) drug development for Scripps Research and surgical practice at Scripps Clinic and Rady Children’s Hospital. She is the principal investogator of six active phase II clinical trials using mesenchymal stem cells for IBD, has received extramural funding from the Helmsley Foundation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, Cure for IBD, Rainin Foundation and American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ASCRS). She is the surgical co-chair for the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization (ECCO), chair of Southern California Chapter of Young Women in Bio, vice chair of the clinical practice guidelines committee for ASCRS, and on executive council for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.