Alain Bitton

Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
McGill University
Montreal, QC

Dr. Alain Bitton is Professor of Medicine at McGill University and is currently the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at McGill University. He completed a 2-year IBD Clinical Research fellowship at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. His research in IBD has included population-based studies describing the epidemiology of IBD in Quebec and studies identifying prognostic factors predictive of IBD course and recurrence. He is the Quebec clinical lead of the NIH-NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium. He is also the Quebec Lead of the Canadian Gastro-intestinal Epidemiology consortium (CanGIEC) which is a  pan-Canadian multidisciplinary team of investigators aimed at providing evidence to improve the quality of care for Canadians. He spearheaded the development of a tool (IBD Global Rating Scale) to be used for ongoing assessment and improvement of care of IBD patients in Canada.