About us

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Our Organization

Nutritional Therapy for IBD, founded in 2019, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to advancing evidence-based nutrition as part of IBD treatment plans to enhance the well-being and health outcomes of all children and adults with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.  

We inform, support, and empower patients and clinicians by providing education and essential tools and resources to utilize nutritional therapy alongside medication.

We,

  • collaborate with patient organizations, clinicians, researchers, corporate partners, patients, and families. 
  • advance the interest and funding for dietary research, the enrollment in ongoing trials, and the clinical application of research findings.
  • promote awareness of the role of nutrition at national and international IBD conferences, including the latest information on nutritional therapy research. 
  • elevate the patient's voice to advocate for nutritional therapy as part of IBD treatment plans.

Our team consists of international leaders in IBD nutrition, including clinicians, patients, families, and caregivers.

Our vision

To ensure a future where all patients with IBD, regardless of age, gender, race, or ethnicity, receive an evidence-based form of nutritional therapy in their treatment plan for optimal success. 

Our mission

To establish evidence-based nutritional therapy as a foundational part of IBD treatment to enhance the well-being and health outcomes of all children and adults with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. We empower clinicians and patients with essential, current, comprehensive, educational, and innovative resources.

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Our Core Values

Lead

We are recognized as a comprehensive and trusted top resource for clinicians and patients.

Innovate

We develop new nutritional resources to assist patients and clinicians.

Collaborate

We foster national and international collaboration among nutrition leaders and patient groups.

Empower

We support an approach in which the patient plays an active role in their care.

Include

We strive to make nutritional therapy more accessible to patients of all economic, educational and cultural backgrounds.

Ethics

We act with integrity, sincerity, respect, passion, transparency and compassion in all that we do.

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Founders


Nutritional Therapy for IBD was founded in 2019 by Kim S. Beall, Pharm.D, and Anthony C. Beall, MD, to fill an essential void in providing evidence-based knowledge, tools, and resources to empower patients and aid clinicians seeking to leverage nutrition alongside medications in inflammatory bowel disease. Nutrition has been central to their son’s management of Crohn’s disease since his diagnosis in 2013 at age thirteen. Nutritional therapy has been an essential part of providing optimal care and has afforded him the best opportunity to manage life with Crohn’s disease successfully. Nutritional Therapy for IBD was founded with a desire to make evidence-based nutrition accessible to everyone suffering from Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.

Kim S.

Beall

PharmD, Managing Director
Academic Relations and Research
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Anthony C.

Beall

MD, Chair of the Board
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