Sanjay Murthy, MD MSc (Epid) FRCPC

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Ottawa
Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Associate Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Adjunct Scientist, ICES uOttawa
The Ottawa Hospital IBD Centre, Division of Gastroenterology
Ottawa, Ontario

Dr. Murthy is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a Clinician-Investigator in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Ottawa and a member of The Ottawa Hospital IBD Centre. He holds a Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases from the University of Ottawa. He completed his medical degree at the University of Ottawa, Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Manitoba and Gastroenterology Residency at the University of Toronto. He completed advanced clinical fellowships in IBD (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto), clinical nutrition (Toronto General Hospital) and diagnostic endoscopy (University of Mainz, Germany), and obtained an M.Sc. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (University of Toronto). His research program uses clinical and health administrative data to study the quality and effectiveness of current practice and to develop models for personalized medicine, which he applies to the study of IBD and colorectal cancer prevention.