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. He is Program Director for the Advanced IBD Fellowship at Western. His research interests focus on clinical therapeutics for IBD, clinical trials, development and validation of clinical indices and patient reported outcome measures. His clinical practice is based at University Hospital and he is Principal Investigator for several clinical trials.