Dr. Colleen Parker received her MD degree and completed her internal medicine and gastroenterology residencies at the University of Toronto.  She completed advanced clinical and research training in the field of neurogastroenterology and motility at UCLA. She then completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto. She is currently a staff gastroenterologist at the University Health Network in Toronto and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Her clinical and research interest is the psychosocial aspects of managing patients with disorders of gut brain interaction.