Department of Medicine Faculty Profile

Laura Harrell Raffals
Section of Gastroenterology
Assistant Professor of Medicine

e-mail: lharrell@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Referring Physician Access Line: 1-877-DOM-2730

Training:

Degree	Year	Institution	Area
BS	1994	University of Evansville	Biology
MD	1998	Indiana University
Residency	2002	Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's	Internal Medicine
Fellowship	2005	The University of Chicago	Gastroenterology

Academic Interests:

Dr. Harrell is interested in inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, with a particular interest in treating chronic pouchitis. She has co-authored several chapters for medical textbooks on the topics of malabsorption, diarrhea, and the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Her research interests include the identification of biomarkers that predict disease behavior and the relationship of bacteria and inflammatory bowel disease.

Clinical Interests:

Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis).

Representative Publications:

Angtuaco TL, Reddy SK, Drapkin S, Harrell LE, Howden CW. The utility of urgent colonoscopy in the evaluation of acute lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding: A 2-year experience from a single center. Am J Gastroenterology 2001; 96(6):1782-1785.
Harrell LE, Hanauer SB. Mesalamine derivatives in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Gastroenterology Clinics in North America 2004; 33(2): 303-318.
Harrell LE, Rubin DT, Hanauer SB. Fever and right upper quadrant pain in a pregnant woman at 30 weeks’ gestation. Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2004; 1(2).