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Mission and Leadership

Our Mission

Mission and Leadership

The Society for the Study of Celiac Disease is a society of medical, scientific and allied health professionals in the field of celiac disease. The organization’s overall mission is to advance the fields of celiac disease and gluten-related disorders by fostering research and by promoting excellence in clinical care, including diagnosis and treatment of patients with these conditions.

The SSCD has been established to

  • Organize educational, training and scientific conferences, workshops and similar gatherings for the medical and scientific communities;
  • Encourage careers in the field of celiac disease by promoting education, training and mentoring of clinical practitioners and researchers;
  • Develop funding by private and public sources for research, and to use a peer-review process to award grants;
  • Provide leadership in the development of clinical and research protocols with the goal of assuring early detection, proper treatment and scientific progress;
  • Provide patient-support groups and other relevant organizations with medically and scientifically sound information about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity;
  • Contribute medical and scientific guidance to government policy and regulatory deliberations;
  • Engage in information exchanges and discussions of mutual interest with the pharmaceutical and medical-testing industries, and
  • Take any and all other actions that the General Assembly and Executive Council deem appropriate for advancing the detection, treatment and science of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.
  • The SSCD acts as a liaison between the U.S. celiac disease medical community and the International Society for the Study of Celiac Disease.

Leadership

  • Ritu Verma, MD

    SSCD President

    Professor of Pediatrics, Section Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Medical Director, Celiac Disease Center, Vice Chair, Ambulatory Pediatric Strategy, 2020 Master Clinician, Bucksbaum Institute, University of Chicago.

  • Dawn Adams, MD, MS, CNCS

    President Elect

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Center for Human Nutrition, and Director of Celiac Clinic, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  • Daniel A. Leffler, MD, MS, AGAF

    Treasurer

    Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Medical Director, Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

  • Marisa Stahl, MD, MSCS

    Secretary

    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO

  • Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS

    Past President

    Director of Clinical Research at The Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University in New York, New York.

Councilors

  • Jackie Jossen, MD

    The Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University in New York, New York

  • Imad Absah, MD

    Mayo Clinic

  • Sharon Weston, MS, RD, CSP, LDN

    Boston Children’s Hospital