4832-Helper, Debra

Debra Helper, MD

Associate Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine

Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Phone
(317) 944-3565
Address
University Hospital, Suite 4100
550 University Blvd
UH 4100
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5250
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Bio

Dr. Helper received her MD from Northwestern University in 1981, completed her Internal Medicine internship, residency, and chief residency followed by a research fellowship in Gastroenterology at IU School of Medicine before joining the faculty at IU in 1995. Soon afterward, she established an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center providing state-of-the-art patient care and training in IBD to fellows, residents and medical students. Under an IBD training grant, she mentored GI fellows in the advanced evaluation and treatment of IBD. Dr. Helper was lead site investigator on numerous therapeutic trials for IBD and a small bowel capsule study. An early adaptor of double balloon endoscopy, she helped advance use of the technique at IU. She served as inaugural Medical Director of the Glen Lehman and Douglas Rex endoscopy suites until her retirement in 2015 when she moved west to spend more time with her family. She retired as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus. She left a great legacy: Three of her mentees (Dr. Fischer, Sagi and Bohm) are current IU faculty physicians dedicated to IBD care and a scholarship established in her name provides tuition funds to an underprivileged medical student every year.

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