Joshua Korzenik, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Crohn's and Colitis Center
Director, Translational Research
Address: Massachusetts General Hospital
MGH Digestive Health Center
100 Charles River Plaza, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Patient Appointments: (617) 726-0267
Academic Phone: (617) 724-6113
Fax: (617) 726-3080
E-Mail: jkorzenik@partners.org
Clinical Background:  
MD Degree: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1983-1987
Residency: Beth Israel Hospital, 1987-1990
Fellowship: Gastroenterology, Yale School of Medicine 1991-1994
Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, 1993
Gastroenterology; Hepatology, 1993
Clinical Interests: Ulcerative Colitis
Crohn's Disease
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Research Interests: Ulcerative Colitis
Crohn's Disease
Publications:
  1. Korzenik JR, Dieckgraefe BK, Valentine JF, Hausman DF, Gilbert MJ. Sargramostim for active Crohn's disease. N Engl J Med. 2005 May 26;352(21):2193-201.

  2. Korzenik JR. Dieckgraefe BK. Crohn's Disease: An Immunodeficiency disease: A Hypothesis Suggesting Possible Early Events in the Pathogenesis of Crohn's Disease. Digestive Disease and Sciences 2000;45:1121-1129.

  3. Dieckgraefe, BK, Korzenik, J., Husain, A., Dieruf, L. and the North American GSD study group. Association of Glycogen Storage Disease 1b and Crohn's disease: Results of a North American Survey. European Journal of Pediatrics161 Suppl 1:S88-92, 2002.

  4. Dieckgraefe, BK, and Korzenik, J. Treatment of active Crohn's disease with recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). Lancet. 2002; 360:1478-80.