Eric Benchimol, MD, PhD, FRCPC
- Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Senior Scientist, SickKids Research Institute
- Senior Core Scientist, ICES
- Northbridge Financial Corporation Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children
Eric Benchimol is a pediatric gastroenterologist at the SickKids Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. 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 continues to have 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 with the goal of improving the quality and transparency of research using routinely collected health data.