Charles N. Bernstein

Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Director, University of Manitoba IBD Clinical and Research Centre
Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology
Winnipeg, MB

Dr. Charles Bernstein, a graduate from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, and the UCLA Division of Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program is Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology Research; and Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Clinical and Research Centre at the University of Manitoba. His main research interests are primarily related to IBD; in terms of optimizing management approaches; exploring predictors of clinical outcomes; and disease etiology including related to the gut microbiome.

Dr. Bernstein has been a pioneer in Canada in harnessing administrative health data to study chronic immune diseases and in developing a population-based database, the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database, that has both served as a model for the development of other similar databases in other provinces as well as a unique tool to study IBD. More recently, he has been actively involved in exploring the biological and clinical intersection between different chronic immune mediated inflammatory diseases.

He has published over 740 peer reviewed articles, 29 book chapters, and is a co-editor of one of the seminal gastrointestinal clinical-pathology textbooks. As of June 20, 2024 his Google H-Index is 126 and he has had 75300 citations. In 1998 he was elected into the International Organization for the Study of IBD and served as its scientific secretary 2007-2011. In 2008 he was inducted as a fellow into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2009, he was named the inaugural Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology at the University of Manitoba. In 2012 he was elected into the Royal Society of Canada -Life Sciences Division of the Academy of Science. In 2019 he was awarded the Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Research Leadership Award. In 2022 he was awarded with the Richard N Fedorak Award of Distinction for peer education of IBD presented at Mentoring in IBD: The Master Class 2022.