Thank you for choosing Ira Shafran, M.D. and the Shafran Gastroenterology Center for your GI care. We are a Center of Excellence for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Our associates and staff take great pride in providing our patients with the highest quality medical care in a warm and friendly environment, tailoring treatment to meet each patient’s specific needs. We specialize in assisting you with medical conditions such as Crohn’s Disease & Ulcerative Colitis. We offer Clinical Trials to our patients with IBD which affords them the newest therapies at no cost. We also employ Canine Assistants to comfort & cheer our patients... Their special contribution to your better health & well-being is subtle, but enormous! Crohn’s Disease (CD) is an inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It can occur in any section of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus
however, it affects the ileum (small intestine) and the colon (large intestine) in most cases.Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a disease that causes inflammation and ulcerations, only in the lining of the colon or rectum. It affects men and women equally, most commonly those between 15-30, presenting with cramps, diarrhea and rectal bleeding.