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 Mount Sinai Hospital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre Professor of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, ON
Faculty
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 Charles N. Bernstein, MD FRCPC Distinguished Professor of Medicine Director, University of Manitoba IBD Clinical and Research Centre Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology, Winnipeg, MB Deanna Gibson, BSc PhD Professor Department of Biology University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Lesley Graff, PhD CPsych Provincial Medical Specialty Lead-Clinical Health Psychology, Shared Health Professor and Head Department of Clinical Health Psychology Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MA Smita Halder, MD PhD Associate Professor and GI Specialist McMaster University, Department of Medicine Hamilton, ON 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 Gilaad Kaplan, MD MPH FRCPC FCAHS Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary Calgary, AB James C. Lee Clinician Scientist Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust University College London, Division of Medicine Genetic Mechanisms of Disease Laboratory London, UK Kate Lee, PhD MBA Vice-President, Research & Patient Programs Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Toronto, ON	Yasmin Nasser, MD PhD FRCPC Assistant Professor Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB Lori Radke President and CEO Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Toronto, ON 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 Florian Rieder, MD PhD Vice-Chair, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Co-Section Head Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Director Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Research and Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Fellowship Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Digestive Diseases and Surgery Institute Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA Keith A. Sharkey, PhD CAGF FCAHS Professor Department of Physiology and Pharmacology University of Calgary Calgary, AB Laura Sly, PhD CAGF Professor, Department of Pediatrics BC Children's Hospital University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Andrew Stadnyk, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology Dalhousie University and IWK Health Halifax, NS Laura Targownik, MD MSHS Associate Professor, Gastroenterology & Hepatology University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, ON Stephen Vanner, MSc MD FRCPC Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, and Director, Translational Institute of Medicine, Queen’s University Director, Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit (GIDRU), Kingston Health Sciences Centre Kingston, 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 Bram Verstockt, MD PhD Assistant Professor and Gastroenterologist Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University Hospitals Leuven KU Leuven, Belgium
CFD Scientific Steering Committee
Alain Bitton, MD FRCPC McGill University, Montreal, QC Eric Benchimol, MD PhD FRCPC University of Toronto, ON Usha Chauhan, MN ACNP BScN McMaster University, Hamilton ON Kate Lee, PhD MBA Crohn's and Colitis Canada, Toronto, ON	Remo Panaccione, MD FRCPC University of Calgary, AB Andrew Stadnyk, PhD Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS 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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