Northbridge Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology
SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Dr. Benchimol graduated from Western University’s MD program and completed his pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa before joining SickKids for his GI fellowship. During that time, he completed a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at University of Toronto and ICES, graduating in 2010. He spent 10 years as a pediatric gastroenterologist and clinician-scientist at CHEO and University of Ottawa, specializing in inflammatory bowel disease. He rejoined SickKids in September 2020 as a clinician-scientist at the SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre. Dr. Benchimol is also Past-Chair of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Council of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada.
Dr. Benchimol chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC.ca), which conducts epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, outcomes, and health services research using the health administrative data from multiple provinces. He also has an interest in improving the methods used to conduct research using routinely-collected health data. In that capacity, he co-chairs of the RECORD Steering Committee (record-statement.org), an international group which has created reporting guidelines for observational studies that use routine-collected health data for research.
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