Dr Leonard Baidoo is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. After his medical degree and training at the University of Ghana and Oxford University Affiliated Hospitals in England he did an NIH research fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco. He completed his residency and fellowship at MCP Hahnemann University Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, where he also studied Inflammatory Bowel Disease under Dr Lichtenstein at the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the founding members of the UPMC IBD Center and was the Director of the Northwestern University IBD Center in Chicago before he moved to Memphis.