Millie Long, MD, MPH, and Edward Barnes, MD, MPH, have received the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s 2021 Uniting to Care & Cure Award for dedication to the IBD community of patients and caregivers, and for advancing the mission to improve patient quality of life and find cured for IBD. Both are assistant professors in the division of gasteroenterology and hepatology.
Long is chair of the CCFA’s Professional Education Committe and an investigator for the CCFA Partners cohort, a prospective cohort focusing upon patient reported outcomes that includes over 14,000 patients living with inflammatory bowel disease. She has contributed numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and review articles to the medical literature.
Barnes has served on the steering committee for the Rising Educators Academics and Clinicians Helping IBD (REACH-IBD) group within the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, which is a group created for members within seven years of fellowship graduation. He is currently the co-chair of the steering committee and has led the Career Connection mentoring program for REACH-IBD for the past several years. He has also worked with the Foundation on efforts to evaluate comparative effectiveness statements regarding therapies for ulcerative colitis, and is the principal investigator on the PROP-RD study, a multicenter prospective registry to study pouch-related outcomes funded by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Clinical Research Alliance. Barnes has contributed multiple articles and reviews in the medical literature in the area of inflammatory bowel disease evaluating clinical outcomes related to differing treatment strategies among patients with inflammatory bowel disease, as well as the effects that these strategies have on cost and resource utilization.