Faculty - Meeting of the Minds - Crohn’s and Colitis Canada

Faculty

Co-Chairs
Remo Panaccione, MD FRCPC Professor of Medicine University of Calgary CCC Chair in IBD Research Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit Director, Gastrointestinal Research Assistant Dean of MD Admissions Undergraduate Medical Education Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB	A. Hillary Steinhart, MD MSc FRCPC Professor of Medicine University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre Toronto, ON
Faculty
Heather Armstrong Eric Benchimol, MD PhD FRCPC Northbridge Financial Corporation Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, SickKids IBD Centre The Hospital for Sick Children Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Toronto, ON Michael Byrne Kenneth Croitoru Brian Feagan Vivian Huang Sally Lawrence Kate Lee, PhD MBA Vice-President, Research & Patient Programs Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Toronto, ON Genelle Lunken Deborah Marshall Paul Moayyedi Kerri Novak	Lori Radke President and CEO Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Toronto, ON John Rioux Stefan Schreiber Mark Silverberg Nir Solomon Maitreyi Raman, MD MSc FRCPC Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Director Clinician Investigator Program Director AsCEND (Alberta's Collaboration of Excellence for Nutrition in Digestive Diseases) Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Laura Targownik, MD MSHS Associate Professor, Gastroenterology & Hepatology University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, ON Elena Verdú, MD PhD Principal Investigator, Professor Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine Associate Director, Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute Director, Axenic Gnotobiotic Unit McMaster University Hamilton, ON Eytan Wine, MD PhD FRCPC Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology University of Alberta Edmonton, AB
CFD Scientific Steering Committee
Eric Benchimol, MD PhD FRCPC University of Toronto, ON Usha Chauhan, MN ACNP BScN McMaster University, Hamilton ON Jean-Eric Ghia	Kate Lee, PhD MBA Crohn's and Colitis Canada, Toronto, ON Remo Panaccione, MD FRCPC University of Calgary, AB A. Hillary Steinhart, MD MSc FRCPC University of Toronto, ON

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.

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