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Stefan D. Holubar, MD, MS

Director of Research, Staff Surgeon
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Dr. Stefan Holubar was born and raised on Long Island. Stefan is a first generation American as his mother Mariana immigrated to New York from Stockholm Sweden, and his father Joel’s family was Ukrainian; Stefan speaks Swedish and German. Under the mentorship of Neil Hyman MD, he received my MD from University of Vermont in 2002 after overcoming stage 3 colon cancer related to long-standing chronic ulcerative colitis treated with a modified 2-stage IPAA. Stefan’s wife, Susanne – affluent in French, is also a first generation German-American. After medical school, Stefan completed a General Surgery Residency at North Shore-LIJ in 2007, and then completed a 2-year Masters in Clinical & Translational Research, and a clinical Colorectal Fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester, 2007 – 2010. After Mayo, he joined Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2010, and in 2015 was appointed Chief of the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery. In April 2017, he was appointed Vice-President of the American Society of Enhanced Recovery. Given his long-standing interest in Surgery for IBD, in Aug. 2017 Dr. Holubar accepted a position as a Staff Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Ohio. Presently within the Department of Colon & Rectal Surgery he serves as the IBD Surgery Section Chief, the Director of Research, and as the NSQIP Surgeon Champion for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. On a national level, Dr. Holubar is actively engaged in helping lead the NSQIP IBD Collaborative, serves as Vice-Chair for the ASCRS IBD Committee, Co-Chair for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Professional Education Committee. To date he has published >100 peer-reviewed articles, more than half of which are on IBD, a dozen book chapters, & 1 book (coeditor). His main clinical and research focus is IBD, with a special interest in all any Med-Surg pouch (IPAA) topics/issues, complex Crohn’s & Colitis, venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in IBD and recently received a grant from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation to examine the role of aspirin in VTE prophylaxis. Finally, Dr. Holubar is the PI for the newly funded Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s surgical cohort and collaborative, IBD-SIRCQ (Surgical Innovation, Research, & Quality Collaborative).

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