William Sandborn

Dr. William Sandborn completed medical school and an internal medicine residency at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda California. He completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota in 1993. From 1993-2010, he was on the faculty of the Mayo Clinic, rising to Professor of Medicine, Vice Chairman of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Associate Dean of Research for Intellectual Property and Industry Relations. In 2011 he joined the University of California San Diego (UCSD) as a Professor of Medicine, and from 2011-2021 he was Director of the IBD Center and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at UCSD. Since 2021 he has continued as a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCSD. He was previously a co-founder of Santarus working directly with Scott Glenn, Stephan Targan & Gerry Proehl. Dr. Sandborn is also a co-founder and the chief medical officer of Shoreline Biosciences. He has published over 750 peer-reviewed articles and is a member of the editorial board for the New England Journal of Medicine.