Patient Care

  • Jonathan Kushner, MD
  • Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UC College of Medicine
    UC Health Gastroenterologist
  • Academic Office:
    Medical Sciences Building, 6th Floor
    231 Albert Sabin Way
    PO Box 670595, ML 0595
    Cincinnati, OH 670595
  • Clinical Office:
    UC Health Physicians Office
    222 Piedmont Ave., 4th Floor
    Cincinnati, OH 45219

    UC Health Physicians Office North
    7690 Discovery Drive
    West Chester, OH 45069

    UC Health Physicians Office (Montgomery)
    9275 Montgomery Rd,
    Cincinnati, OH 45242
  • Phone: 513-475-8000
  • Email: Jonathan.Kushner@uc.edu

    Research/Clinical Interests:

    • Nutritional assessment and recognition by primary care providers
    • Gastroesophageal reflux and laryngeal symptoms
    • Eosinophils and (gastrointestinal) inflammation in adults
    • Nutritional status and deficiencies in bariatric surgery patients

    Education/Credentials:

  • Bachelor's Degree: Columbia College, Columbia University, 1976
  • Medical Degree: George Washington University, 1981
  • Intern : Walter Reed Army Medical Center , 1982
  • Residency: Walter Reed Army Medical Center , 1984
  • Fellowship: Walter Reed Army Medical Center , 1988
  • Fellowship: Walter Reed Army Medical Center , 1999

Board Certifications & Licenses:

  • Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1984
  • Endocrinology Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1987
  • American Board of Nutrition, 1990
  • Gastroenterology Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1999
  • Naitonal Board of Nutrition Support Certification, 1996
  • American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists, 2002

Peer Reviewed Publications (in chronological order):

  • Blanchard, C., Stucke, E. M., Rodriguez-Jimenez, B., Burwinkel, K., Collins, M. H., Ahrens, A., Alexander, E. S., Butz, B. K. B., Jameson, S. C., Kaul, A., Franciosi, J. P., Kushner, J. P., Putnam, P. E., Abonia, J. P., & Rothenberg, M. E. (2011). (In Press). A striking local esophageal cytokine expression profile in eosinophilic esophagitis. . The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , 127 (1) , 208-17, 217.e1-7.
  • Sherrill, J. D., Gao, P., Stucke, E. M., Blanchard, C., Collins, M. H., Putnam, P. E., Franciosi, J. P., Kushner, J. P., Abonia, J. P., Assa'ad, A. H., Kovacic, M. B., Biagini Myers, J. M., Bochner, B. S., He, H., Hershey, G. K., Martin, L. J., & Rothenberg, M. E. (2010). (In Press). Variants of thymic stromal lymphopoietin and its receptor associate with eosinophilic esophagitis. . The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , 126 (1) , 160-5.e3.
  • Blanchard, C., Stucke, E. M., Burwinkel, K., Caldwell, J. M., Collins, M. H., Ahrens, A., Buckmeier, B. K., Jameson, S. C., Greenberg, A., Kaul, A., Franciosi, J. P., Kushner, J. P., Martin, L. J., Putnam, P. E., Abonia, J. P., Wells, S. I., & Rothenberg, M. E. (2010). (In Press). Coordinate interaction between IL-13 and epithelial differentiation cluster genes in eosinophilic esophagitis. . Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) , 184 (7) , 4033-41.
  • Suurna, M. V., Welge, J., Surdulescu, V., Kushner, J., & Steward, D. L. (2008). (In Press). Randomized placebo-controlled trial of pantoprazole for daytime sleepiness in GERD and obstructive sleep disordered breathing. . Otolaryngology--head and Neck Surgery : Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery , 139 (2) , 286-90.
  • Stein, M. L., Collins, M. H., Villanueva, J. M., Kushner, J. P., Putnam, P. E., Buckmeier, B. K., Filipovich, A. H., Assa'ad, A. H., & Rothenberg, M. E. (2006). (In Press). Anti-IL-5 (mepolizumab) therapy for eosinophilic esophagitis. . The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , 118 (6) , 1312-9.

Recent Awards/Honors:

  • Alpha Omega Alpha, 1981
  • Ralph Giannella GI Fellows Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, 2005