Matthew W. Carroll BSc, BMed(Hons), MHSc, FRACP
Dr. Carroll completed his medical training in Australia specializing in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He did further clinical fellowship training in Complex Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. During this time he earned a Masters in Health Science (Clinical Epidemiology) from the University of British Columbia. He joined the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Alberta in 2012 as a Clinician Educator.
Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Alberta and a founding member of the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGEIC) research group. He is actively involved in clinical research focusing on Pediatric IBD and jointly runs the Edmonton Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic (EPIC) at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the Quality Improvement physician lead for the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Alberta and the Co-Chair of the Child Health Quality Assurance, Improvement and Patient Safety Collaborative for the Stollery Children’s Hospital and its affiliated programs. He is a member of the Canadian Children IBD network, a national research collaborative currently conducting an inception cohort study of over 1000 children newly diagnosed with IBD in Canada.
Dr. Carroll brings expertise in quality and process research, health services research methodology and the use of administrative databases. He has an ongoing research interest in transition care and the impact IBD has on Canadian children, their families and the health system.