From left: David B. Sachar, MD; Joanna S. Sachar; and Bruce E. Sands, MD, the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Friends, family, faculty, and staff gathered in December to recognize David B. Sachar, MD, and his wife Joanna S. Sachar, for their many contributions to the field of gastroenterology and to celebrate the naming of a conference room in their honor at the Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center on The Mount Sinai Hospital campus. For nearly 50 years, Dr. Sachar, a Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has contributed to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research and patient care, and served as a mentor to generations of medical students, residents, and fellows. He served as the founding director of the Burrill B. Crohn Research Foundation, and helped lay the foundation for Mount Sinai’s Feinstein IBD Clinical Center. Dr. Sachar’s significant impact on the field of IBD was recognized in 2014, when he received the lifetime achievement award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America.