Background
Sartor, Ryan Balfour was born on October 11, 1949 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Son of Emmett Alton and Jean Grigsby (Oliver) Sartor.
Sartor, Ryan Balfour was born on October 11, 1949 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Son of Emmett Alton and Jean Grigsby (Oliver) Sartor.
Bachelor of Science, Washington & Lee University, 1971; Doctor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houstoon, 1974.
Intern, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 1974-1975;
resident in internal medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 1975-1977;
fellow in gastroenterology, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1978-1981;
instructor department medicine, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1981-1983;
assistant professor department medicine, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1983-1989;
associate professor department medicine, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989-1995;
professor departments medicine, microbiology and immunology, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1995. Chairman training awards committee Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, New York City, 1989-1993, grants review committee, 1993-1996, national science advising committee, 1996-1999. General medical A-2rev. committee, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1990-1994.
Director Multidisciplinary Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Research and Advanced Therapy.
Achievements include the creation of two animal models of chronic intestinal inflammation with extraintestinal inflammation, demonstrated differential genetic susceptibility in inbred rat rats to chronic intestinal and systemic inflammation, demonstrated ability of sterile bacterial cell wall components to induce chronic, spontaneously relapsing inflammation, demonstrated the ability of normal intestinal bacteria to induce and perpetuate chronic intestinal inflammation.
Member administrative board University Methodist Church, Chapel Hill, 1993-1995. Sunday school teacher University Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, 1985-1986. Youth basketball coach Parks and Recreation Department, Chapel Hill, 1992-1994.
Member American Gastroenterological Association (abstract review committee 1989-1994), American Society Microbiology, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Emily Averett, June 18, 1971. Children: Ryan McDade, Emily Paxton.
