Vipul Jairath, MBChB DPhil MRCP FRCPC

Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Western University
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario

Dr Jairath is Professor of Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and holder of the John and Susan McDonald Endowed Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Clinical Research at Western University. His research interests focus on clinical therapeutics for IBD including design of clinical trials from Phases 2-4, development and validation of clinical indices for use in clinical trials, and patient reported outcome measures. He is Principal Investigator and steering committee member on several investigator initiated clinical trials and also sits on IDMCs. He is Program Director for the Advanced IBD Fellowship at Western and supervises post-graduate students at PhD and Masters level. He oversees the clinical trials unit for patients with IBD at University Hospital where he is Principal Investigator for several clinical trials.