Amy L Lightner

Amy Lightner MD is a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, CA and Consulting Chief Medical Officer in MedTech, and prior CMO at a late-stage biotech in regenerative medicine. Dr. Lightner completed her undergraduate and post-doctoral work at Stanford University in stem cell biology. After completing her surgical training at Mayo Clinic, she stayed on staff as Associate Professor and was the Medical Director for the Center for Regenerative Medicine. She was later recruited to Cleveland Clinic to start a Center for Regenerative Medicine and Surgery. She is the PI of six active phase II clinical trials using mesenchymal stem cells for inflammatory bowel disease, has received extramural funding from the Helmsley Foundation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, Cure for IBD, Rainin Foundation and American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ASCRS). She is the surgical co-chair for S-ECCO, chair of Southern California Chapter of Young Women in Bio, vice chair of the clinical practice guidelines committee for ASCRS.