Dr Paul Moayyedi qualified from Bristol University and obtained a PhD and Masters in Public Health from the University of Leeds. He moved to McMaster University in 2004 and was Director of the Division of Gastroenterology at McMaster in 2006-2017. He holds the Audrey Campbell Chair of Ulcerative Colitis Research and is past President of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. He has published over 515 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited over 94,000 times with an h index of 148 and is in the ClarivateTM Highly Cited Researcher list. He is the Co-Editor in Chief of Gastroenterology with David Weinberg.