Ryan Stidham is a translational data scientist caring exclusively for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis at the University of Michigan Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. He is the Associate Chair of Translational Research in the Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics.

Dr. Stidham’s research focus is technology development for improving the measurement, forecasting, and precision care of IBD and other conditions leveraging new computational methods, data extraction, and human-computer interfaces. He leads a team of mathematicians, engineers, and implementations scientists in the design of data-driven interpretations of endoscopy, cross-sectional imaging, medical text, and other electronic data. Dr. Stidham’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Leona Helmsley Charitable Trust, and several industry sponsored research collaborations.

Dr. Stidham received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine training at the University of Pennsylvania, and was an NIH T-32 Research Fellow of Gastroenterology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Stidham has advanced training in medical imaging physics, signals analysis, electronic data management, and clinical research design and statistical analysis. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife Carrie and daughter Violet.