Kandice Knigge, MD

Kandice Knigge, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology OHSU
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Co-Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
OHSU/ VAMC

• Degrees:
  • BA – Stanford University, 1988
  • MD – University of Utah, 1992
    
    
• Residency:
  • Internal Medicine – University of Washington, 1993-1995
  • Chief Resident- University of Washington, 1995-1996
    
    
• Fellowship:
  • Fellowship in Gastroenterology –Oregon Health & Science University, 1996-1999
    
    
• Research/Clinical Interests:
  
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Colorectal Cancer, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Celiac Sprue
    
    
• Representative Publications:
  
  • Laine L, Estrada R, Trujillo M, Knigge K, Fennerty MB.  Effect of proton-pump inhibitor therapy on diagnostic testing for Helicobacter pylori. Ann Intern Med. 1998;129(7);547-50.
  • Knigge K, Kelly C, Fennerty MB, Peterson WL. Eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection after ranitidine bismuth citrate, metronidazole and tetracycline for 7 or 10 days. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 1999;13:323-6.
  • Laine L, Knigge K, Faigel D, Margaret N, Marquis S, Vartan G, Fennerty MB. Fingerstick Helicobacter pylori antibody test: better than laboratory serological testing? Am J Gastroenterol. 1999;94(12); 3464-7.
  • Knigge K.  The role of H pylori in gastrointestinal disease.  Postgrad Med. 2001;110(3);71-82.
  • Knigge K. Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Review of IBD pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment options. Clin Cornerstone. 2002;4(4); 49-60.
  • Knigge K. Severe, Steroid-Refractory Ulcerative Colitis:  Infliximab to the rescue? Evidence Based Gastroenterology 2005; Vol. 6, No. 4, 110-11.
  • Rodriguez SA, Collins JF, Knigge KL, Eisen GM. Surveillance and management of dysplasia in ulcerative colitis. Gastrointest Endosc. 2007;65(3):432-9.
  • Knigge K. Screening: Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer. In:  The American Cancer Society's Complete Guide to Colorectal Cancer. (Ed.) Levin B. American Cancer Society, November 2005.
  
  
• Biosketch:
  

  Dr. Knigge completed her undergraduate degree in Human Biology at Stanford University.  She attended the University of Utah School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and received the Gold Headed Cane Award for outstanding patient care.  She completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the University of Washington, where she received the Robert S. Evans Award (given to the 2nd year Resident in Internal Medicine who has shown exemplary qualities of concern, compassion and understanding for the needs of others) and was also voted the “Resident of the Year” by her faculty and peers.
  
  She completed her Fellowship in Gastroenterology at Oregon Health and Science University in 1999 and has been on the OHSU faculty since 2000. Dr. Knigge is currently the Director of the Fellowship Program in Gastroenterology at OHSU and the Co-Director of the OHSU Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic.  While at OHSU, she has received the Faculty Teaching Award from the OHSU Internal Medicine Housestaff and served as the Governor for Oregon for the American College of Gastroenterology.  She was also selected as one of the Best Physicians in Portland (Gastroenterology) by Portland Monthly Magazine in 2007.
  
  Dr. Knigge was raised in rural southern Idaho and is still a farm girl at heart. When she’s not working, she greatly enjoys taking tap dance and Hip Hop classes, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, all things Shakespeare and Broadway and spending time with friends and family. She considers it a true privilege to be a physician and strives to treat each of her patients with genuine compassion.