Shehzad Saeed, MD

Shehzad Saeed, MD, FAAP, AGAF is the associate chief medical officer and a pediatric gastroenterologist at Dayton Children's Hospital. Dr. Saeed completed his medical school education at Dow Medical College, University of Karachi in Pakistan. Following college, he spent is internship and residency in general pediatrics at the University of Chicago Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at The Floating Hospital for Children, New England Medical Center, Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Saeed is board certified in pediatric gastroenterology.

When asked why he chose to specialize in pediatric gastroenterology he said he wanted to improve the disease burden of children suffering from chronic digestive disease problems, improve the quality of life and outcome of children with inflammatory bowel disease. In addition to the care he provides for children with chronic digestive diseases, Dr. Saeed is also a professor at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and has an interest in leveraging his Quality Improvement background in improvement opportunities across the institution.

Outside of the hospital, Dr. Saeed enjoys traveling, reading and volunteering with his medical school alumni and professional organizations, and community partners.

awards & honors

• 2009-2020 Best Doctors in America
• 2019 Academic Keys Who's Who in Medicine Higher Education
• 2019 Collaborator in Caring Award, Dayton Children's Hospital Nursing Leadership Recognition
• 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award by Fellows, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• 2014-2016 America's Top Doctors (Castle Connolly)
• 2013-2016 Top Doctors, Cincinnati Magazine
• 2010-2016 Best Doctors in Cincinnati, OH
• 2015 Patients' Choice Award
• 2015 US News and World Report Physician
• 2013 Making a Difference Award Nominee, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• 2011 Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent (APPNA)- Alabama Chapter- Academic Award- For Excellence in the Field of Pediatric Gastroenterology
• 2010-2011 Top Leading Physicians of the World by International Association of Pediatrics
• 2010 Top Pediatrician in Birmingham, AL by International Association of Pediatrics
• 2010 Fellow, American Gastroenterological Association
• 2009-2010 Marquis Who's Who in America
• 2008 Outstanding Service to APPNA Award by Alabama Chapter of Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America-Awarded in the fall, 2008 Annual meeting of Alabama Chapter
• 2006 Shining Star Volunteer Award, Children's of Alabama
• 2006 Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America-Alabama/Northwest Floridia Chapter

publications and presentations

• Leach ST, Day AS, Messenger R, Walters TD, Navas-López VM, Sladek M, Koletzko S, Yerushalmi B, Saeed S, Otley T, Mack D, Turner D, Griffiths AM, Lemberg DA on behalf of the ImageKids study group. Fecal markers of inflammation and disease activity in pediatric Crohns disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2020 May;70(5):580-585. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000002615. PMID: 31899733
• Sandberg, K, Yarger E, Saeed S. Updates in diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel disease. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health 2020 May;50(5):100785. PMID: 32402535
• Saeed, SA. Acute Pancreatitis: Updates in epidemiology, diagnosis, and management. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health 2020 Aug;50(8):100839. PMID: 32859510
• Opipari-Arrigan L, Dykes Dana MH, Saeed SA, Thakkar SN, Burns L, Chini B, McPhail G, Eslick I, Margolis PA, Kaplan HC. Technology Enabled Healthcare Collaboration in Pediatric Chronic Illness Care: Feasibility, Acceptability and Clinical Impact of an Electronic Health Linked Platform for patient-clinician partnership. JMIR Mhealth. 2020 Nov 26;8(11): e11968. doi: 10.2196/11968. PMID: 33242014
• Jeremy Adler, Andrew Singer, Lee Bass, Christopher Moran, Joseph Picoraro, Jeffrey Lewis, Jonathan Moses, Kelly Sandberg, Julia Mar, Dawn Ebach, Shehzad Saeed, Joel Rosh, Haley Neef, Jess Kaplan, Alka Goyal, Fernando del Rosario. Development and Testing of a New Simplified Endoscopic Mucosal Assessment for Crohn’s Disease: the SEMA-CD. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2020 Dec 31: izaa307. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izaa307. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33382069
• Gray WN, Wagoner ST, Schaefer MR, et al. Transition to Adult IBD Care: A Pilot Multi-Site, Telehealth Hybrid Intervention. J Pediatr Psychol 2020 Nov 24; jsaa088. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsaa088. PMID:  33236097
• Somineni HK, Nagpal S, Venkateswaran S, Cutler DJ et al--Whole-Genome Sequencing of African Americans Implicates Differential Genetic Architecture in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.  Am J Hum Genet 2021 Mar 4;108(3):431-445. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.02.001. Epub 2021 Feb 17. PMID: 33600772
• David, J., Chute, D., Reed, B., Saeed, S., DeMatteo, D., Atay, O., Maddux, M., & Daly, B. Assessing the prevalence of and risk factors for disordered eating behaviors in adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 143–145, https://doi/10.1093/ibd/izab154.  PMID: 34106253Vinson AH, Seid M, Gamel B, Saeed S, Fureman B, Cronin S, Bates K, Hartley D. Toward an Ontology of Collaborative Learning Healthcare Systems.  Learning Health Systems 2022 Feb 26;6(3):e10306. doi:10.1002/lrh2.10306. PMID: 35860315
• Schuchard J, Carle AC, Kappelman MD, Tucker CA, Forrest CB and ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System and COMBINE study team. Interpreting Patient-Reported Outcome Scores: Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease as a Use Case.  Acad Pediatr. 2022 Nov-Dec;22(8):1520-1528. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2021.12.029.
• Miller TL, Schuchard J, Carle AC, Forrest CB, Kappelman MD and COMBINE Study Group. Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Pediatric Measures as Clinical Trial Endpoints: Experience from a Multicenter Pragmatic Trial in Children with Crohn's Disease. J Pediatr. 2022 Mar; 242:86-92. e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.10.053. Epub 2021 Nov. PMID: 34740588
• Kaplan HC, Opipari-Arrigan L, Yang J, Schmid CH et al. Personalized Research on Diet in Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease (PRODUCE): A Series of N-of-1 Trials. American Journal of Gastroenterology 2022 Jun 1;117(6):902-917. DOI:10.14309/ajg.0000000000001800. PMID: 35442220
• Kaplan JL, Liu C, King EC, Bass JA et al. Use, Durability, and Risks for Discontinuation of Initial and Sequential Biologics in a Large Pediatric Onset IBD Cohort. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023 May; 76(5): 566–575. Published online 2023 Feb 19. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000003734. PMID: 36804501
• Zhang N, Liu C, Steiner SJ, Colletti RB, Baldassano R, Chen S, Cohen S, Kappelman MD, Saeed S, Conklin LS, Strauss R, Volger S, King E, Lo KH.  Using Multiple Imputation of Real World Data to Estimate Clinical Remission in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. J Comp Eff Res 2023 Apr;12(4):e220136. doi: 10.57264/cer-2022-0136. PMID: 36799351
• Kappelman MD, Wohl DA, Herfarth HH, Firestine AM, Adler JA et al. Comparative Effectiveness of Anti-TNF in Combination with Low Dose Methotrexate vs Anti-TNF Monotherapy in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease: a Pragmatic Randomized Trial. Gastroenterology 2023 Jul;165(1):149-161.e7. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2023.03.224. Epub 2023 Mar 31.  PMID: 37004887
• Huwe M, Woolf B, David J, Seid M, Saeed S, Margolis P and ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System. Conceptualizing and redefining successful patient engagement in patient advisory councils in learning health networks. LHS e10377. doi:10.1002/lrh2.10377
• Winnick J, Jacobs N, David J, Moua MK, Saeed S A.  Variability of Psychosocial Services within the ImproveCareNow Learning Health System: Opportunities for Optimization.  JPGN Reports 4(4):p e349, November 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/PG9.0000000000000349
• Duarte H, Stolfi A, McCall C, Seed S, and Sandberg K. Diagnosis change in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. J Ped Gastro Nutr. 2024;1–13. DOI: 10.1002/jpn3.12120.
• Ebach, D, Jester TW, Galanko JA et al . High Body Mass Index and Response to Anti-TNF Therapy in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease. Am Jr Gastro. 10.14309/ajg.0000000000002741, March 06, 2024. | DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000002741
• McLaughlin J, Linville T, Jester T et al. Travel Time to Treating Center is Associated with Diagnostic Delay in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024 Aug 23:S1542-3565(24)00761-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2024.07.027. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39181423
• Moses J, Firestine A, Adler J, Saeed SA et al. Low Anti-TNF Levels During Maintenance Phase are Associated with Treatment Failure in Children with Crohn’s Disease.  Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2024 Oct 17:izae239. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izae239. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39418336
• Adler J, Galanko JA, Ammoury R, et al. HLA DQA1*05 and risk of anti-TNF treatment failure and anti-drug antibody development in children with Crohn's Disease: HLA DQA1*05 and Pediatric Crohn's Disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 2024 Oct 18. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003135. PMID: 39423015
• Constant BD, Adler JA, Gold BD et al. National perspectives of payor and pharmacy benefit manager denials in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. JPGN Rep. 2025 Feb 10;6(2):80-90. doi: 10.1002/jpr3.70004. eCollection 2025 May.  PMID: 40386337
• Maltz R, Adler J et al. Infliximab Biosimilar Initiation in a Large Pediatric Learning Health System.
• Children (Basel). 2025 May 20;12(5):656. doi: 10.3390/children12050656. PMID: 40426835
• Hamilton L, House T, Sewell TB et al. The Pediatric Experience Collaborative: Paving the way in pediatric experience. Journal of Patient Experience J Patient Exp. 2025 Jul 7:12:23743735251357481. doi: 10.1177/23743735251357481. PMID: 40630740
• Coleman R, Dotson J, Mock M et al. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Pediatric IBD: A Nationwide Survey of Anti‐TNF Therapy Practices, Attitudes, and Barriers. Crohn’s Colitis 360. 2025 Aug 1;7(3):otaf050. doi: 10.1093/crocol/otaf050. PMID: 40919597
• Adler J, Galanko JA, Ammoury R et al. HLA DQA1*05 and risk of anti-tumor necrosis factor treatment failure and antidrug antibody development in children with Crohn’s disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 2025 May 1;120(5):1076-1086. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003135. Epub 2024 Oct 18.PMID: 40315028
• Steiner SJ, Adler JA, Saeed SA,, Strauss R, Howe KM, Sheahan A, Zhang R, Keihn KR, Harrow K, Olano K, Evans D, Hung KL, Zhang N, Kim L, Colletti RB, Volger S and the ImproveCareNow Learning Health Network Effectiveness and Safety of Ustekinumab in Moderate to Severe Paediatric Crohn’s Disease: Results of the REALITI Real-World Evidence Study. Accepted in Jr Peds Gastro Nutrition
• Van Hecke J, Veereman G, Huysentruyt K, Wauters L, Adler J, Saeed S, De Greef E and the ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System. The ImproveCareNow Registry: Prediction of two year non-remission in Pediatric Ulcerative colitis. Accepted in Jr Peds Gastro Nutrition