Vitaliy Poylin United States

Vitaliy Poylin is a Director of Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Northwestern Medicine and Associate Professor of Surgery at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He finished his surgical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Colorectal training at University of Minnesota. He serves as a Chair for ASCRS Inflammatory bowel Disease committee. His clinical practice concentrates on Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colorectal cancer, mainly in minimally invasive approaches. He leads and is part of a number of local and national research trials. He is involved in patient advocacy and training of medical students, residents and advance care providers. Dr. Poylin runs Northwestern observership program for oncology physicians from Ukraine and as medical director of Path the Plane to Ukraine lead a number of surgical missions in Ukraine concentrating on education and patient care