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
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, MD FRCPC Clinical Professor Division of Gastroenterology University of British Columbia Vancouver General Hospital Vancouver, BC Daniel Drucker, OC MD FRCPC FRSC FRS Professor Temerty Faculty of Medicine Department of Medicine University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, ON Jean-Eric Ghia, PhD HDR CAGF AGAF Communication Director Gastrointestinal Basic Biology Research IBD Clinical & Research Centre Department of Immunology, Internal Medicine Section of Gastroenterology Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba President, Alliance Française Manitoba Vice-Président, Acfas-Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Anne Griffiths, MD FRCPC Co-Lead, IBD Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children Senior Associate Scientist, Research Institute The Hospital for Sick Children Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto Toronto, ON Vivian Huang, MD MSc FRCPC Associate Professor & Clinican Investigator Division of Gastroenterology University of Toronto Director, Preconception & Pregnancy in IBD Program Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, ON Vipul Jairath, MBChB DPhil MRCP FRCPC Professor of Medicine Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University London, ON Sally Lawrence, MBChB FRCPCH Clinical Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Pediatric Gastroenterologist BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, BC Sun-Ho Lee, MD Assistant Professor Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, ON Kate Lee, PhD MBA Vice-President, Research & Patient Progrms Crohn's and Colitis Canada Toronto, ON Jeffrey McCurdy, MD PhD FRCPC Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology University of Ottawa The Ottawa Hospital Ottawa, ON	Dermot McGovern, MD Professor of Medicine & Professor Biomedical Sciences Cedars-Sinai Director of Precision Health Medicine Los Angeles, CA Kerri Novak, MD MSc FRCPC Associate Professor University of Calgary Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group Foothills Medical Centre, President-Elect, International Bowel Ultrasound Group (IBUS) Calgary, AB Maitreyi Raman, MD MSc FRCPC CAGF 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 Mark S Silverberg, MD PhD FRCPC Staff Gastroenterologist Mount Sinai Hospital Director Toronto Immune and Digestive Health Institute 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 Peter Rossos, MD Professor Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University of Toronto Clinician Administrator, Toronto General Hosptial University Health Network Toronto, ON Cynthia Seow, MBBS (Hons) MSc FRACP Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences University of Calgary Calgary, AB Mark S Silverberg, MD PhD FRCPC Staff Gastroenterologist Mount Sinai Hospital Director Toronto Immune and Digestive Health Institute Toronto, ON Joelle St-Pierre, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB Theodore Steiner, BSc MD Professor Head, Division of Infectious Diseases University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Ryan Ungaro, MD MS Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Clinical Research, Division of Gastroenterology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Toronto, 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 Jean-Eric Ghia, PhD HDR CAGF AGAF University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB 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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