Paul L. Beck, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 
Gastrointestinal and Mucosal Inflammation Research Groups
Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator
AHFMR Clinical Investigator
Office: Room 1725, Health Sciences Centre
Phone Office: (403) 220-6538
Phone Lab: (403) 220-2218
Fax: (403) 270-0995
Email: plbeck [at] ucalgary [dot] ca
Curriculum Vitae
BSc (Hons), Queen's University
PhD, Queen's University;
MD University of Calgary
Research Interests
My research interests include defining mechanisms involved in the development of IBD and how the gastrointestinal tract heals itself after injury. The lining of the gastrointestinal is commonly injured in every day life by insults such as arthritis medications, bacteria, viruses acid and others. Why this injury occurs more commonly in some and causes more problems is unclear. However, it appears that some people are susceptible to injury where others fail to heal the injury and likely IBD is a result of increased susceptibility to injury and failure to properly heal following injury. By using both animal models of colitis as well as tissue culture models the goal of my research is to determine import factors that protect the gastrointestinal tract from injury and/or improve tissue repair after injury. By determining which factors may be involved in these processes one can develop strategies aimed at treating IBD with the ultimate goal of finding a cure for this group of devastating diseases.
Dr. Paul Beck's student, Jeff Ng, wins prestigious award for C. difficile abstract
Publications
Kaplan GG, Seminowich S, Williams J, Muruve D, Dupre M, Urbanski SJ, Yilmaz S. Burak KW, Beck PL. The risk of microscopic colitis in solid-organ transplantation patients: a population-based study. Transplantation 85(1): 48-54, 2008.
Williams JJ, Kaplan GG, Makhija S, Urbanski SJ, Dupre M, Pannaccione R, Beck PL. Microscopic colitis-defining incidence rates and risk factors: a population-based study. Clin Gastroenterol Heptaol 6(1): 35-40, 2008.
Beck PL, Shaffer EA, Gall DG, Sherman PM. The natural history and significance of ultrasonographically defined polypoid lesions of the gallbladder in children. J Pediatr Surg 42(11): 1907-12, 2007
Zhang R, Li Y, Beck PL, McCafferty DM. Toll-like receptors 4 regulates colitis-associated adenocarcinoma development in interleukin-10-deficient (IL-10<-/-)) mice. Biochem Soc Trans 35(pt5: 1375-6, 2007
Medlicott SA, Brown HA, Roland B, Beck PL, Auer I, Mansoor A. Multiple lymphomatous diverticulosis and comorbid chronic lymphocytic leukemia: novel manifestations of ileocolic mantle cell lymphoma. Int J Surg Pathol 15(4): 408-13, 2007.
Personnel
Research Staff
Annie Li
Josee Wong
Administrative Assistant
Janice Doell jdoell [at] ucalgary [dot] ca