Eric Benchimol

Eric Benchimol holds the Northbridge Chair of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at the SickKids IBD Centre. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist with a primary interest in treating children with IBD. Dr. Benchimol is also an epidemiologist and chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), which conducts epidemiology, pharmaco-epidemiology, outcomes, and health services research using the health administrative data from multiple provinces. He co-chairs the Canadian Children Inflammatory Bowel Disease Network. Finally, Dr. Benchimol co-chairs the steering committee for the RECORD statement for the REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected Data (an extension to the STROBE reporting guidelines).