Eugenia Shmidt, MD

Administrator Info
Name: GI Division
Phone: 612-625-8999
Email: gidivision@umn.edu
Fax: 612-625-5620
Mail: 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 36, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Shmidt received her bachelor's degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and her medical degree from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She continued at Mayo Clinic where she completed residency in internal medicine. She then went on to complete a fellowship in gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.Dr. Shmidt specializes in inflammatory bowel disease with expertise in fertility, preconception and pregnancy care. She has published in multiple academic journals on various aspects of IBD, including sexual function.Dr. Shmidt serves as a member of the American Gastroenterology Association's national guideline committee for Drug Therapy for Crohn's disease. She also serves on the Women's Committee for the American College of Gastroenterology.At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Shmidt serves as the Co-Director of the IBD Program. She also co-leads the IBD Clinical Trials Program.In 2019, Dr. Shmidt was a recipient of the University of Minnesota's Biomedical Research Awards for Interdisciplinary New Science (BRAINS) to study the effect of the microbiome on fertility. Also, she is currently building a national registry to study the impact of pouch surgery on fertility in women with ulcerative colitis.At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Shmidt launched a multi-disciplinary clinic for women with IBD – the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Preconception and Pregnancy Planning (IPREPP) Clinic. The decision to become pregnant is difficult for women with IBD because of safety concerns related to the disease and the medications used for treatment. Oftentimes, women with IBD receive mixed messages from various specialists regarding pregnancy. The goal of the IPREPP clinic is to combine the expertise of IBD specialty care and maternal fetal medicine to offer comprehensive pre-conception and pregnancy counseling and care to women with IBD.In the IPREPP Clinic, women with IBD discuss pregnancy with two different specialists – Dr. Shmidt (an IBD specialist) and a maternal fetal medicine physician. The IPREPP Clinic is the only one of its kind in the Midwest and one of only a few in the world.