Scott Plevy, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 

Dr. Plevy received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and postdoctoral research fellowships at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Dr. Plevy was formerly Co-Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Plevy is a Member of the National Scientific Advisory Committee for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, and serves as the Research Training Awards Committee Chair. He is Chair of the Education Committee for the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies and a member of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies Executive Committee. He is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Plevy has contributed significantly to the medical literature on Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. He is the author of numerous original articles, abstracts and book chapters. Journals in which his work has appeared include the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Immunity, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Gastroenterology, and The Journal of Immunology. Dr. Plevy has served as basic science section editor for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology. He has been the principle investigator for numerous ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease clinical trials. His research interests include inflammatory bowel disease, innate immunity, cytokine biology, and inflammation.