Dr. Murthy is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a Clinician-Investigator in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Ottawa, and an Associate Scientist at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He holds a Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases from the University of Ottawa. He is also a staff gastroenterologist at The Ottawa Hospital IBD Centre. 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 inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer prevention.
Dr. Sanjay Murthy
Investigator and Chair, Scientific Committee