Dr. Marc Brand
Dr. Marc I. Brand, M.D., received his Bachelor’s Degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986 and graduated from Rush Medical College in 1990. Dr. Brand completed eight years of surgical training at the Cleveland Clinic, including a five-year residency in general surgery, a two-year fellowship in surgical research and a one-year fellowship in colorectal surgery.
Dr. Brand’s areas of clinical expertise include ulcerative colitis (pelvic pouch surgery), Crohn's disease (strictureplasty and bowel conservation), colonoscopy, and hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes (Familial Polyposis and Lynch Syndromes).
Dr. Brand is a member of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Hereditary Colon Cancer and is the Director of the Rush Registry for Hereditary Colorectal Cancer. The registry is an organization which coordinates and provides medical care for patients and families with hereditary colorectal cancer, and also provides information regarding these syndromes to both patients and their physicians.
