Faculty

Co-Chairs
Laura Sly, PhD CAGF Professor, Department of Pediatrics BC Children's Hospital University of British Columbia Vancouver BC	Bruce Vallance, PhD CAGF CH.I.L.D. Foundation Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology Director, Gut4Health Microbiome Core Professor, Department of Pediatrics BC Children's Hospital University of British Columbia Vancouver BC
Faculty
Heather Armstrong, MSc PhD Assistant Professor and Tier 2 CRC Max Rady College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Premysl Bercik, MD PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, ON Daniel DeCarvalho, PhD Professor, University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto, ON Greg Fairn, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Jean-Eric Ghia, PhD HDR CAGF AGAF Professor & Director, Micro-Diploma Science Communication Director, Gastrointestinal Basic Biology Research, IBD Clinical & Research Centre Vice-Président Acfas-Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Jean-Eric Ghia, PhD HDR CAGF AGAF Professor & Director, Micro-Diploma Science Communication Director, Gastrointestinal Basic Biology Research, IBD Clinical & Research Centre Vice-Président Acfas-Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB	Deanna Gibson, BSc PhD Professor Department of Biology University of British Columbia Kelowna, BC Simon Hirota, PhD CAGF Canada Research Chair in Host-Microbe Interactions and Chronic Disease Director of the Intestinal Inflammation Tissue Bank Assistant Dean of Research Infrastructure Cumming School of Medicine Associate Professor Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute University of Calgary Calgary, AB Klaus H. Kaestner, PhD MS Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor in Genetics Associate Director, Penn Diabetes Research Center University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA Kevin Maloy, PhD Professor Mucosal Immunology School of Infection & Immunity University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK Nicholas C. Zachos, PhD Associate Professor of Surgery Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN, USA

Quick FactFaites en bref

Canada has among the highest incidence rates of Crohn's and colitis in the world.
1 in 140 Canadians lives with Crohn’s or colitis.
Families new to Canada are developing these diseases for the first time.
Incidence of Crohn’s in Canadian kids under 10 has doubled since 1995.
People are most commonly diagnosed before age 30.